Games like Sons of Valhalla
If Sons of Valhalla is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surrounded by Death, Viking City Builder and DSS 2: War Industry — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its generous progression feels rewarding, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Sons of Valhalla: Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.
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Steam players who put hours into Sons of Valhalla also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Surrounded by Death
WHY THIS
Top pick for Sons of Valhalla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sons of Valhalla.
Lead your people, fight for survival, become their ruler in this 2D strategy game. To accomplish this, you will have to create powerful walls, an efficient economy and a strong army. But it's not enough. Destroy all portals for peace to reign
Viking City Builder
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sons of Valhalla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sons of Valhalla.
Set a new village on the ashes of Europeans! Build and defend a Viking settlement in hostile land. Manage your people, survive harsh winters and send your fierce warriors to pillage the neighboring villages. Choose your own strategy to succeed in the Viking Age!
DSS 2: War Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sons of Valhalla.
Third-strongest match for Sons of Valhalla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sons of Valhalla.
In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy. Establish automated supply routes within your territory to streamline production. Fortify your defenses and brace for intense battles. Can you lead your empire to dominance?
Steel Division: Normandy 44
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sons of Valhalla.
Ranked #4 for Sons of Valhalla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sons of Valhalla.
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
Diplomacy is Not an Option
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sons of Valhalla.
Ranked #5 for Sons of Valhalla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sons of Valhalla.
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Final War: Frozen Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Sons of Valhalla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sons of Valhalla.
Strategy Tower Defense, RTS Battles on the World Map
Becastled
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sons of Valhalla.
Ranked #7 for Sons of Valhalla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sons of Valhalla.
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sons of Valhalla.
Ranked #8 for Sons of Valhalla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Sons of Valhalla.
Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!
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KINGDOMS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sons of Valhalla.
Reviewers of Sons of Valhalla cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Sons of Valhalla.
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Regions Of Ruin
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sons of Valhalla cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Sons of Valhalla.
Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of the dwarven race.
NORTH
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sons of Valhalla.
Reviewers of Sons of Valhalla cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sons of Valhalla at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Sons of Valhalla on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sons of Valhalla.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sons of Valhalla on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sons of Valhalla.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sons of Valhalla on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sons of Valhalla.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sons of Valhalla on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Sons of Valhalla.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sons of Valhalla on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Sons of Valhalla.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sons of Valhalla.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Sons of Valhalla.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sons of Valhalla.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Sons of Valhalla.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Sons of Valhalla.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sons of Valhalla.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Frequently asked about Sons of Valhalla
- Does Sons of Valhalla run on Steam Deck?
- Sons of Valhalla is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Sons of Valhalla cost?
- Sons of Valhalla is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sons of Valhalla?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sons of Valhalla are Surrounded by Death, Viking City Builder, DSS 2: War Industry.
- Who developed Sons of Valhalla?
- Sons of Valhalla was developed by Pixel Chest.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Sons of Valhalla.
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