Games like Sword Hero
If Sword Hero is your kind of game, the closest matches are Asterfel, Risen and Gothic Playable Teaser — 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 →About Sword Hero: A truly interactive open-world RPG, packed with dozens of dynamic systems like NPCs with Daily Routines and memory system, Crime and Reputation, a limb-based Directional Combat system and many more. Become a well-known Hero, a feared Villain or anything in-between.
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Steam players who put hours into Sword Hero 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.
Asterfel
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Top pick for Sword Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sword Hero.
Welcome to Asterfel, an island shaped by ambition, conflict, and something far older stirring beneath the surface. Encounter three factions, discover forgotten history, and shape the island’s future. Will you thrive, survive, or witness the end of an era?
Risen
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Second-strongest match for Sword Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Sword Hero.
Delve into a gritty, raw and atmospheric fantasy world in which every action has a consequence. In the epic world of Risen, filled with mysterious earthquakes, fearsome monsters and unimaginable treasures, forge your path with the sword, learn the art of staff fighting or become a powerful mage.
Gothic Playable Teaser
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Third-strongest match for Sword Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Sword Hero.
The Kingdom of Myrtana has been invaded by an implacable horde of orcs. King Rhobar II, in need of a large quantity of magical ore in order to forge powerful weapons, operates the Khorinis mines with all available prisoners.
Dragon's Dogma 2
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Ranked #4 for Sword Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Sword Hero.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
Duel Corp.
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Ranked #5 for Sword Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sword Hero.
A Souls-inspired action RPG set in a sandbox open world with an MMO feel and challenging directional combat. Play solo or with up to 3 friends in co-op. Build friendships, master an unrestricted class system, and uncover the cause that darkened all eyes.
Gothic 1
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Ranked #6 for Sword Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Sword Hero.
War has been waged across the kingdom of Myrtana. Orcish hordes invaded human territory and the king of the land needed a lot of ore to forge enough weapons, should his army stand against this threat. Whoever breaks the law in these darkest of times is sentenced to serve in the giant penal colony of Khorinis, mining the so much needed...
The Bloodline
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Ranked #7 for Sword Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sword Hero.
The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…
Gothic 1 Remake
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Ranked #8 for Sword Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Sword Hero.
The Legend is Back - Return to the Valley of the Mines in this faithful remake of the genre-defining classic RPG. Explore a hand-crafted, organic open world that reacts dynamically to your actions in a gritty, unrestricted experience like no other.
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 with Sword Hero.
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 Indie with Sword Hero.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sword Hero.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sword Hero.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sword Hero.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword Hero.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword Hero.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword Hero.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
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Frequently asked about Sword Hero
- What games are most similar to Sword Hero?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sword Hero are Asterfel, Risen, Gothic Playable Teaser.
- Who developed Sword Hero?
- Sword Hero was developed by ForestWare and published by Crytivo.
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 Sword Hero.
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