Games like FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition
If FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pyrene, Revive & Repeat and Monster Train — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. 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 FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition: FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition was created to be the perfect bitesized roguelike dungeon crawler. Choose your champion and face a relentless crawl through the card-based dungeons, collect items to power your abilities and defeat the gruesome monsters facing you. But keep going FORWARD!
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Pyrene
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Shares a contemplative mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Top pick for FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Defeat hellish monsters and rebuild your home in Pyrene, a fast paced roguelike dungeon-crawler. Play with different heroes & spells, collect powerful relics to upgrade your deck while uncovering the mysteries behind your village’s destruction.
Revive & Repeat
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Revive & Repeat is a card-based dungeon crawler roguelike where you combine modifiers and artifacts, build insane setups, fight powerful bosses, and compete with other players on the leaderboard — every death makes you stronger.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Third-strongest match for FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Wildfrost
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Shares a challenging mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Ranked #4 for FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
SpellRogue
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Shares a contemplative mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Ranked #5 for FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Stoneshard
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Shares a challenging mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Ranked #6 for FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
Banners of Ruin
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Shares a challenging mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Ranked #7 for FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
Alina of the Arena
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Shares an intense mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Ranked #8 for FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
A roguelike deckbuilding tactics game that combines elements from 'Slay the Spire' and 'Into the Breach'. Play as a gladiator to survive. With roguelike deckbuilding and hex-based tactics, no longer bound by simple attack and defense. Make use of dodges and knockbacks to stay alive!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
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
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Priced ~50% under FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
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
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Priced ~50% under FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Alina of the Arena
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition.
A roguelike deckbuilding tactics game that combines elements from 'Slay the Spire' and 'Into the Breach'. Play as a gladiator to survive. With roguelike deckbuilding and hex-based tactics, no longer bound by simple attack and defense. Make use of dodges and knockbacks to stay alive!
Frequently asked about FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition
- Does FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition run on Steam Deck?
- FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition cost?
- FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition are Pyrene, Revive & Repeat, Monster Train.
- Who developed FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition?
- FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition was developed by Two Tiny Dice and published by Indie Asylum.
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