Games like FADE
If FADE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Onimusha: Way of the Sword, The Relic: First Guardian and Luminary — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 FADE: FADE is a classic Third person Action RPG. Travel to the land of Baltane and stop a twisted cult from finishing a ancient and twisted ritual. Face powerful bosses, collect loot, and fight horrific beings. Solo developed.
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword
WHY THIS
Top pick for FADE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
An Oni Gauntlet-wielding samurai makes a stand in Kyoto against the encroaching Genma menace. Through gritty, blood-soaked brawls, he searches for his reason to fight. What fate awaits at the end of his path?
The Relic: First Guardian
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for FADE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
A dark action RPG rooted in Korean mythology, with brutal, fast combat.
Luminary
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for FADE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
Luminary is a solo or co-op OpenZone Action RPG that creates a balanced experience for everyone. Using a unique world and character progression system, explore vast hand-crafted lands together, uncover hidden treasures, level up your town, and push back the darkness with light.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for FADE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
WHY THIS
Shares level progression and an atmospheric mood with FADE.
Ranked #5 for FADE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
Mortal Shell II
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for FADE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with FADE.
Their Flesh Is Your Weapon. Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel action-RPG with adrenaline-charged, high-stakes combat. Possess warrior Shells, dethrone false gods, redeem a ravaged world.
Crimson Moon
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Ranked #7 for FADE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
You are Nephilim: a human-angel hybrid forged to defend humanity with supernatural powers. Fight solo or with a friend to annihilate demons and challenge brutal bosses in relentless melée combat. Rise, violent one. The prophecy is yours to fulfill.
Grimlord
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with FADE.
Ranked #8 for FADE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
Grimlord is a Dark Fantasy Action Souls-like RPG - on VR. Awakened in a monastery deep in the Lonely Mountains, you walk in an epic quest as the adventurer standing before the darkness and striving for the light against the tyrannical Grim Lord.
Reviewers mention these as similar to FADE
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with FADE.
Reviewers of FADE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with FADE.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Dragon's Dogma 2
WHY THIS
Shares class specialization and an immersive mood with FADE.
Reviewers of FADE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with FADE.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
Fable
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FADE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
Become the Hero you want to be in an immersive open-world action-RPG where each choice shapes your journey, reputation is everything, and fairytale endings are never guaranteed.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FADE at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under FADE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under FADE on Steam right now. Shares Action with FADE.
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 ~60% under FADE on Steam right now. Shares Action with FADE.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~60% under FADE on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with FADE.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under FADE on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with FADE.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with FADE.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with FADE.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with FADE.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with FADE.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about FADE
- How much does FADE cost?
- FADE is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to FADE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FADE are Onimusha: Way of the Sword, The Relic: First Guardian, Luminary.
- Who developed FADE?
- FADE was developed by Knight by Night.
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 FADE.
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