Games like Rathe: The Beginning
If Rathe: The Beginning is your kind of game, the closest matches are La Maledizione dell'Uccello Serpente, Crystal Covenant and FINAL FANTASY IV — 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.
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La Maledizione dell'Uccello Serpente
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Top pick for Rathe: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
A JRPG game with a fantasy setting and retro style. Warning: the game is in Italian.
Crystal Covenant
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rathe: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
A turn-based RPG, featuring pixel style graphics and 3D animations during battles. Target enemy weaknesses to stun and lower their defenses, and then finish them by using Boost Points to increase the strength or number of attacks a character uses in battle to inflict massive damage!
FINAL FANTASY IV
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rathe: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
The original FINAL FANTASY IV comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the fourth game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rathe: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
Featuring fully voiced dialogue, beautifully enhanced graphics, and countless gameplay improvements, the genre-defining tactical RPG makes its long-awaited return.
The Nameless: Slay Dragon
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Ranked #5 for Rathe: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
封神榜2022
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Ranked #6 for Rathe: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
This game takes Nezha, Xiaolongnv, Yang Jian and Jiang Taigong as the protagonists. It tells the legendary story of the protagonists going to various places to adventure, and finally to Chaoge City to destroy the three demons and defeat King Zhou.
8-Bit Adventures 2
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Ranked #7 for Rathe: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
Pilot your Airship, prepare your party, and explore a vast World Map in 8-Bit Adventures 2 – an exciting, emotional tribute to the Golden Age of JRPGs. Dynamic turn-based battles & pixels with personality!
Crystal Project
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rathe: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rathe: The Beginning at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Rathe: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rathe: The Beginning.
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
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Priced ~60% under Rathe: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rathe: The Beginning.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Rathe: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rathe: The Beginning.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~60% under Rathe: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under Rathe: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Rathe: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rathe: The Beginning.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
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 with Rathe: The Beginning.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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 Rathe: The Beginning.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
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.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
FINAL FANTASY IV
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
The original FINAL FANTASY IV comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the fourth game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
Featuring fully voiced dialogue, beautifully enhanced graphics, and countless gameplay improvements, the genre-defining tactical RPG makes its long-awaited return.
8-Bit Adventures 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
Pilot your Airship, prepare your party, and explore a vast World Map in 8-Bit Adventures 2 – an exciting, emotional tribute to the Golden Age of JRPGs. Dynamic turn-based battles & pixels with personality!
Crystal Project
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Rathe: The Beginning.
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
Frequently asked about Rathe: The Beginning
- How much does Rathe: The Beginning cost?
- Rathe: The Beginning is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rathe: The Beginning?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rathe: The Beginning are La Maledizione dell'Uccello Serpente, Crystal Covenant, FINAL FANTASY IV.
- Who developed Rathe: The Beginning?
- Rathe: The Beginning was developed by Fists Of Destiny Games.
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