Games like The Den of Worms
If The Den of Worms is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Dark Heart of Balor, Volvalis and ECHO //syntax — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Den of Worms: The Den of Worms is an open world exploration game where you must enter the Astral Plane on an esoteric quest to save your dreams from being eaten. On your way you will grow plants, hatch worm eggs, restore the life to towns, battle monsters, and uncover secrets.
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Steam players who put hours into The Den of Worms 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.
The Dark Heart of Balor
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Top pick for The Den of Worms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Archdemon Balor has opened the Gate of Hell into the human realm and hordes of demons and monsters have flooded into your world destroying everything in their path. You must protect those who are still alive and ultimately destroy Balor to close the Gate.
Volvalis
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Second-strongest match for The Den of Worms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Den of Worms.
Experience a dark, epic RPG mystery laden with multi-faceted characters and dangerous secrets! Unfolding with a soundtrack carefully implemented for maximum storytelling and emotional impact, the lost land Volvalis beckons the intrepid....
ECHO //syntax
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Den of Worms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Awaken. Scavenge. Survive.ECHO//syntax is a beat-em-up scrapper game set in a far future robotic world.
Legend of Radiance
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Ranked #4 for The Den of Worms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Den of Worms.
Start on your fantasy adventure in this completely nonlinear souls-like! Place Life Stones in the world to create your own 'bonfires' as you cut through the challenging enemies and seek out the Divine Rings!
Songbringer
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Ranked #5 for The Den of Worms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Imagine if the original Zelda game was set in a science-fiction galaxy. Explore this open-world, action RPG with roguelike and metroidvania elements. Mighty bosses lurk deep within procedurally-generated dungeons. Wield, vanquish, unearth, collect, craft, progress, trip, adventure.
9th Dawn Remake
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Ranked #6 for The Den of Worms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Den of Worms.
Rediscover the magic of the 9th Dawn series with this complete re-imagining of the original game. Venture into a massive 2.5D open world. Explore 45 new dungeons in single-player or online/local co-op, craft weapons, raise pets, play a deck-building card game, and take down the Castle of Maltyr!
Moon Hunters
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Ranked #7 for The Den of Worms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?
Death's Door
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Ranked #8 for The Den of Worms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Den of Worms at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Den of Worms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Den of Worms.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under The Den of Worms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Den of Worms.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under The Den of Worms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Den of Worms.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under The Den of Worms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Den of Worms.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Den of Worms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under The Den of Worms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Den of Worms.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under The Den of Worms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Den of Worms.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under The Den of Worms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Den of Worms.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Den of Worms.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Den of Worms.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Den of Worms.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about The Den of Worms
- How much does The Den of Worms cost?
- The Den of Worms is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Den of Worms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Den of Worms are The Dark Heart of Balor, Volvalis, ECHO //syntax.
- Who developed The Den of Worms?
- The Den of Worms was developed by Scream In To Void.
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 The Den of Worms.
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