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Games like Apollyon: River of Life

If Apollyon: River of Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fabled Lands, Two Die and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and dark. 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.

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About Apollyon: River of Life: Choice-based RPG in a dark fantasy world. Apollyon is narrative-driven, and features occult magic, spirit summoning, a deep universe, playable characters, and story progression alone or in multiplayer!

2023ActionStrategyIndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDWindowsby The Planar Danse
Apollyon: River of Life — Steam game cover
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High replayability with permadeath like progressionManipulating reality through token placementNon linear storytelling with occult themesAtmosphericContemplativeDark

Players who liked Apollyon: River of Life also play

Steam players who put hours into Apollyon: River of Life 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.

  1. Fabled Lands

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Top pick for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG18.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Two Die

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Two Die is a turn-based, tactical, roguelike RPG where every action is determined by the roll of two six sided dice. Battle enemies to upgrade your character and discover what hides in your lost memories.

    2021ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.

    2017StrategyAdventureRPG44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Eternally

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Command one of four Eternals, each broken by their own timeline, in a dark fantasy tactical RPG. Save your timeline. Reclaim who you used to be. Dice-based hex combat, 200+ skills, solo or with up to three friends.

    StrategyRPGEarly AccessSteam ↗
  5. October Night Games

    WHY THIS

    Shares narrative branching and an atmospheric mood with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Ranked #5 for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Will you try to keep the world the way it is or fight for the changes? October Night Games is a digital board game where everyone is a cultist working for one of two different sides. Scour the town for cursed ingredients and make deals with inscrutable entities as something eldrich this way comes.

    2020IndieAdventure15.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Zold:out

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Ranked #6 for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Zold:out is a semi-turn-based tactical RPG combined with deck building. You will use multiple weapons in one turn to challenge powerful enemies in a non-grid battlefield. Recruit clerks, forge weapons, and save the world with your strategy and creativity!

    2023StrategyRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Ranked #7 for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.

    2025StrategyAdventureRPG23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Whispers of the Eyeless

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Ranked #8 for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG. You are the villain - you command disciples, outwit enemies in combat, and shape the fate of the fallen city as you awaken the Dead Gods — Wrath, Desire, and Madness.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Apollyon: River of Life at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Apollyon: River of Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Apollyon: River of Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Apollyon: River of Life on Steam right now. Shares Action with Apollyon: River of Life.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Apollyon: River of Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Apollyon: River of Life on Steam right now. Shares Action with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Apollyon: River of Life on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Apollyon: River of Life on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Apollyon: River of Life on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Apollyon: River of Life.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  3. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Fabled Lands

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG18.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.

    2017StrategyAdventureRPG44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Apollyon: River of Life.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.

    A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.

    2025StrategyAdventureRPG23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Apollyon: River of Life

Does Apollyon: River of Life work on Steam Deck?
Apollyon: River of Life is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Apollyon: River of Life cost?
Apollyon: River of Life is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Apollyon: River of Life have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Apollyon: River of Life supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
What games are most similar to Apollyon: River of Life?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Apollyon: River of Life are Fabled Lands, Two Die, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.
Who developed Apollyon: River of Life?
Apollyon: River of Life was developed by The Planar Danse.

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 Apollyon: River of Life.

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