Games like Dwarf Journey
If Dwarf Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blade of the Netherworld, Ants Took My Eyeball and Revita — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, lighthearted and retro. 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 Dwarf Journey: Dwarf Journey is an action roguelite platformer with randomly generated levels. Defeat enemies, level up, assemble your rune build and collect minerals to forge better equipment on an epic journey in search of immortality.
Players who liked Dwarf Journey also play
Steam players who put hours into Dwarf Journey 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.
Blade of the Netherworld
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dwarf Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Blade of the Netherworld is a fast-paced 2D Roguelite platformer. Don divine masks as a Yin-Yang Enforcer, slashing through the underworld to defeat gods, demons, and spirits. Combine a variety of items, master combat skills, and create limitless, high-speed carnage with a free-form action system.
Ants Took My Eyeball
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwarf Journey.
Second-strongest match for Dwarf Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.
Revita
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Dwarf Journey.
Third-strongest match for Dwarf Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwarf Journey.
Ranked #4 for Dwarf Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Ruggnar
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwarf Journey.
Ranked #5 for Dwarf Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dwarf Journey.
Ruggnar is a platformer without enemies, but many traps are hidden in the darkness. Help Ruggnar explore gloomy places with his bag and a few candles as his sole equipment.
Critadel
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dwarf Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Critadel is a futuristic platform/shooter/roguelike with three playable characters, hundreds of branching paths and over 100,000 unique weapon configurations!
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dwarf Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dwarf Journey.
Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of RPGs, roguelike and auto battlers. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dwarf Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dwarf Journey at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dwarf Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwarf Journey.
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 ~50% under Dwarf Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Dwarf Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dwarf Journey.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dwarf Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwarf Journey.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dwarf Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwarf Journey.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dwarf Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dwarf Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dwarf Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Dwarf Journey.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dwarf Journey.
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 Indie with Dwarf Journey.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dwarf Journey.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwarf Journey.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dwarf Journey.
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.
Ants Took My Eyeball
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwarf Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwarf Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Ruggnar
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwarf Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dwarf Journey.
Ruggnar is a platformer without enemies, but many traps are hidden in the darkness. Help Ruggnar explore gloomy places with his bag and a few candles as his sole equipment.
Critadel
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Critadel is a futuristic platform/shooter/roguelike with three playable characters, hundreds of branching paths and over 100,000 unique weapon configurations!
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dwarf Journey.
Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of RPGs, roguelike and auto battlers. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dwarf Journey.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Frequently asked about Dwarf Journey
- Is Dwarf Journey verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dwarf Journey 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 Dwarf Journey cost?
- Dwarf Journey is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dwarf Journey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dwarf Journey are Blade of the Netherworld, Ants Took My Eyeball, Revita.
- Who developed Dwarf Journey?
- Dwarf Journey was developed by Orube Game Studio.
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