Games like XEL
If XEL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eternal Blade, Time Jump and DragonLoop — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its small but satisfying puzzles, atmospheric and challenging. 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 XEL: XEL is an epic 3D sci-fi fantasy action-adventure. Explore the mysterious world of XEL and help protagonist Reid to uncover her enigmatic past. Make new friends and foes along the way and collect exciting gadgets to master challenging dungeons and solve time bending puzzles.
Players who liked XEL also play
Steam players who put hours into XEL 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.
Eternal Blade
WHY THIS
Top pick for XEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
An open-world action RPG set in the Baransu Realm. Play as Emerald, the last of the Murakai Bloodline and daughter of Sensei Lux, fighting to gather the Almighty Gemstones, wield the Eternal Blade, and free her father from an eternal curse before chaos and darkness are unleashed on the realm.
Time Jump
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for XEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
You are a Wrestling Champion. A Kid. A Professor. A Rock. A Ghost. An Evil Maniac. Fight yourself or save yourself. Your choice!
DragonLoop
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XEL.
Third-strongest match for XEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
AeternoBlade
WHY THIS
Shares time manipulation and an atmospheric mood with XEL.
Ranked #4 for XEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
AeternoBlade is a Time-Manipulation Hack-and-Slash Action-Puzzle Game. Join Freyja to take revenge on Beladim, the Lord of the Mist who destroyed her hometown and unravel the mysteries of AeternoBlade.
异世界生存指南
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XEL.
Ranked #5 for XEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
【Real and authentic CRPG】 Online, a unique adventure game! Each character has a distinctive image and skills, with unique styles of movements. Players can work together to encircle powerful fantasy legendary creatures, obtain fantasy ingredients,
Decay of Logos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XEL.
Ranked #6 for XEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
Immerse yourself in the world of Decay Of Logos and unravel its mysteries. Explore old dungeons, battle unforgiving foes and journey through a vibrant interconnected fantasy realm with your mystical elk companion.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XEL.
Ranked #7 for XEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Lost in Random™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XEL.
Ranked #8 for XEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
Play the odds in Lost in Random™, a gothic-fairy-tale-inspired action-adventure where every citizen’s fate is determined by a roll of the dice.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below XEL at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under XEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with XEL.
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 XEL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
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 XEL on Steam right now. Shares Action with XEL.
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 XEL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
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 XEL on Steam right now. Shares Action with XEL.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under XEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with XEL.
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 XEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with XEL.
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...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under XEL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with XEL.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
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 with XEL.
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 XEL.
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 with XEL.
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 XEL.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with XEL.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with XEL.
‘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 Indie with XEL.
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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More from Tiny Roar
Other recommendable Steam games by Tiny Roar, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Into the Emberlands
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with XEL.
Another title from Tiny Roar, the studio behind XEL. Shares Indie with XEL.
Venture out into the Emberlands and uncover an ever-changing world filled with surprising encounters and mystical creatures! Save villagers who got lost in the Miasma, collect resources and rebuild your village to create a safe haven for your people.
Wanderful
WHY THIS
Another title from Tiny Roar, the studio behind XEL. Shares Indie with XEL.
Wanderful is about uncovering “what lies beyond”, tile after tile. Explore a charming and beautiful world at your own pace in this cosy mix between exploration, building and strategy.
Lou's Lagoon
WHY THIS
Another title from Tiny Roar, the studio behind XEL.
A cozy exploration-and-crafting adventure: fly your seaplane between tropical islands, collect resources with the Swirler, rebuild storm damaged communities, and unravel the mystery surrounding Uncle Lou’s disappearance.
Frequently asked about XEL
- Is XEL verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — XEL 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 XEL cost?
- XEL is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to XEL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside XEL are Eternal Blade, Time Jump, DragonLoop.
- Who developed XEL?
- XEL was developed by Tiny Roar and published by Assemble Entertainment.
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 XEL.
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