Games like The Thaumaturge
If The Thaumaturge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Travelling At Night, Disco Elysium - The Final Cut and Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 →The Thaumaturge is a story-heavy RPG set in 1905 Warsaw, developed by Fool's Theory and published by 11 bit studios. Players navigate a narrative adventure using dialogue-driven choices and turn-based combat, with progression through skill trees and a pride system that requires careful balancing. The game's magic system lets players capture folklore-inspired demons called salutors, which serve as unique combat allies. Reviewers describe the game as atmospheric, immersive, and contemplative, highlighting its richly detailed historical setting and non-linear narrative where player choices meaningfully alter story paths and multiple endings. Available for $34.99 and verified for Steam Deck, it offers a long single-player experience best suited for dedicated sitting sessions. The game holds an 83% positive rating from over 1500 Steam reviews.
About The Thaumaturge: The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.
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Travelling At Night
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Top pick for The Thaumaturge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Thaumaturge.
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Thaumaturge.
Second-strongest match for The Thaumaturge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS
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Third-strongest match for The Thaumaturge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS is a narrative-driven CRPG set in the World of Darkness. Awaken from decades of torpor into a dark-modern Montreal consumed by political intrigue, buried secrets and personal horror.
RPGSteam ↗Mysteries of Shaola: The Cave
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Ranked #4 for The Thaumaturge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Discover the secret of the abandoned cave where many intruders have been disappearing without a trace. It's up to you to find out the truth.
Glasshouse
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Ranked #5 for The Thaumaturge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Feudalpunk CRPG, with Turn-based combat, set in a lockdown apartment block at the dawn of a world war. Investigate the mysterious triple murder next door, fight the Political Conspiracy, and make terrible choices before the flatmates do it for you!
RPGSteam ↗Grayton the Detective
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Ranked #6 for The Thaumaturge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
Grayton the Detective is a narrative adventure game about a homeless man who once lived in wealth and comfort, now showers with a kettle, and solves petty mysteries on the streets of Cleveland. However, with the disappearance of mysterious Golden Spoon, everything may change.
Single Malt Apocalypse
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Ranked #7 for The Thaumaturge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Save the sleepy mining town from a cosmic threat in this late 80s-style adventure with RPG elements. Retro to the core!
Esoteric Ebb
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Thaumaturge.
Ranked #8 for The Thaumaturge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Thaumaturge.
Reviewers of The Thaumaturge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
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Shares dialogue driven choices and an atmospheric mood with The Thaumaturge.
Reviewers of The Thaumaturge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
Vampyr
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Thaumaturge.
Reviewers of The Thaumaturge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Expeditions: Rome
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Thaumaturge.
Reviewers of The Thaumaturge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?
Baldur's Gate 3
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Shares turn based combat and an immersive mood with The Thaumaturge.
Reviewers of The Thaumaturge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
Persona 5 Royal
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Thaumaturge.
Reviewers of The Thaumaturge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
Elysium
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Reviewers of The Thaumaturge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
The Witch
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Reviewers of The Thaumaturge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
The Witch is a first-person indie game in the genre of adventure with elements of horror. In it you are a journalist who has to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the inhabitants of the village of Hoer Verde.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Thaumaturge at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~57% under The Thaumaturge on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~71% under The Thaumaturge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~57% under The Thaumaturge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
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 ~43% under The Thaumaturge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
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.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~71% under The Thaumaturge on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Thaumaturge.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Thaumaturge.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Thaumaturge
- Is The Thaumaturge verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Thaumaturge 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 The Thaumaturge cost?
- The Thaumaturge is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Thaumaturge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Thaumaturge are Travelling At Night, Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS.
- Who developed The Thaumaturge?
- The Thaumaturge was developed by Fool's Theory and published by 11 bit studios.
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