Games like Eternal Strands
If Eternal Strands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Avowed, Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition and Dragon Age™: The Veilguard — 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 →Eternal Strands is a third-person action RPG from Yellow Brick Games set in a fantasy world where players wield physics-driven magic as a female protagonist. Combat revolves around elemental powers that interact with the environment and enemy forces in deliberate, weighty ways, alongside large-scale boss encounters that define the experience. Reviewers and players highlight the sense of mastering the game's systems and the satisfaction of pulling off chain reactions with elemental abilities. The game is marked as challenging and substantially sized, designed for solo play, and runs verified on Steam Deck. It launched in 2025 at $39.99 USD and holds an 88% positive rating from over 1,100 Steam reviews.
About Eternal Strands: A next-generation action experience where the elements obey you, the terrain bends to your will, and every victory is entirely your own.
Players who liked Eternal Strands also play
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Avowed
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Top pick for Eternal Strands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Avowed is a first-person fantasy RPG set in the world of Eora, where your choices carve a path through war, intrigue, and ancient mysteries. Navigate a land in turmoil, forge powerful alliances or deadly rivalries, and wield magic and steel to shape the fate of the Living Lands—and your own destiny.
Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Eternal Strands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Eternal Strands.
Experience the epic Horizon Forbidden West™ in its entirety with bonus content and the Burning Shores expansion included. The Burning Shores add-on contains additional content for Aloy’s adventure, including new storylines, characters, and experiences in a stunning yet hazardous new area.
Dragon Age™: The Veilguard
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Eternal Strands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Unite the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single-player RPG.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
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Ranked #4 for Eternal Strands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Experience an epic action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos.
Stellar Blade™
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Eternal Strands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Save humanity from extinction in post-apocalyptic action-adventure Stellar Blade™. Experience blistering combat and a twisting storyline as you unravel the mysteries of Earth’s downfall.
Hogwarts Legacy
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Eternal Strands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
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Ranked #7 for Eternal Strands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Life is Strange: True Colors
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Ranked #8 for Eternal Strands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Eternal Strands
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Magicka
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Reviewers of Eternal Strands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Eternal Strands.
Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
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Reviewers of Eternal Strands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Eternal Strands.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Eternal Strands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
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Reviewers of Eternal Strands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Eternal Strands.
The third entry in the Monster Hunter Stories RPG series is here! Twin Rathalos, born in a twist of fate. Monster Hunter Stories is an RPG series set in the Monster Hunter world, where you can become a Rider, raising and bonding with your favorite monsters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Eternal Strands at current Steam store prices.
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~50% under Eternal Strands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Eternal Strands.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~75% under Eternal Strands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~75% under Eternal Strands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Eternal Strands.
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.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Eternal Strands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Eternal Strands.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Eternal Strands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~50% under Eternal Strands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~75% under Eternal Strands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Eternal Strands.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Eternal Strands.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Eternal Strands.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Eternal Strands.
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!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Avowed
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Avowed is a first-person fantasy RPG set in the world of Eora, where your choices carve a path through war, intrigue, and ancient mysteries. Navigate a land in turmoil, forge powerful alliances or deadly rivalries, and wield magic and steel to shape the fate of the Living Lands—and your own destiny.
Dragon Age™: The Veilguard
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Unite the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single-player RPG.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Experience an epic action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos.
Stellar Blade™
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Save humanity from extinction in post-apocalyptic action-adventure Stellar Blade™. Experience blistering combat and a twisting storyline as you unravel the mysteries of Earth’s downfall.
Hogwarts Legacy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Eternal Strands.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Frequently asked about Eternal Strands
- Is Eternal Strands verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Eternal Strands is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Eternal Strands cost?
- Eternal Strands is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Eternal Strands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Eternal Strands are Avowed, Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition, Dragon Age™: The Veilguard.
- Who developed Eternal Strands?
- Eternal Strands was developed by Yellow Brick Games.
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 Eternal Strands.
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