Games like Apollyon: River of Life
If Apollyon: River of Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Festival, DIE as HEROES and Two Die — 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.
Get personalized picks →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!
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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.
DIE as HEROES
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.
Dark Fantasy Tabletop Adventures solo or with friends, online & offline up to 4-players! Play & create custom campaigns via robust creation tools & share them with the world in Steamworks! Join "The Guild of Faceless Heroes" in the fantastic realm of Kelgard, for FAME & DEATH await you!
Two Die
WHY THIS
Third-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.
Fabled Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Apollyon: River of Life.
Ranked #4 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.
Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Apollyon: River of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.
The final game in the Army of Tentacles trilogy! Do not let math fool you. It's the third in the RPG-VN series of cosmic weirdness and elder horror.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 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.
Inkbound
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 Action and Strategy with Apollyon: River of Life.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
October Night Games
WHY THIS
Shares narrative branching and 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 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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Apollyon: River of Life at current Steam store prices.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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!
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!
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...
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 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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by The Planar Danse, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Skulltide
WHY THIS
Another title from The Planar Danse, the studio behind Apollyon: River of Life. Shares Action and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.
Skeletal mischief reigns as the Skulltide begins! Join the undead in co-op adventures as the skeleton of your dreams, or lead them yourself, and hunt down the necromancers who reanimated you. Build, throw, and enchant your bones... but try not to misplace them along the way!
The Fool's Apprentice
WHY THIS
Another title from The Planar Danse, the studio behind Apollyon: River of Life. Shares Strategy and RPG with Apollyon: River of Life.
A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!
Blight Doctors
WHY THIS
Another title from The Planar Danse, the studio behind Apollyon: River of Life. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.
DISCOVER, DIAGNOSE, EXORCISE. You are a plague doctor paranormal investigator living in a rotten, gothic city at the end of an apocalypse. Banish ghosts, cure plagues, treat with monsters... all in co-op and proximity chat!
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 Festival, DIE as HEROES, Two Die.
- Who developed Apollyon: River of Life?
- Apollyon: River of Life was developed by The Planar Danse.
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