Games like The Backworld
If The Backworld is your kind of game, the closest matches are Carnosis, Vagrant Shifter and Legends of Astravia — 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 The Backworld: Slip between the cracks of reality into a world where danger awaits at every turn. Survive with strategy, battling when necessary or fleeing when the odds are stacked against you. Collect strange items, unlock new abilities, and recruit unique companions. Forge your own path; every choice matters.
Players who liked The Backworld also play
Steam players who put hours into The Backworld 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.
Carnosis
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Top pick for The Backworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Backworld.
Carnosis is a horror dungeon crawler set in a grimdark empire filled with mutated monstrosities and war machines. Sever enemy limbs, steal the flesh of defeated foes, and chain devastating status combos to butcher your way to the emperor.
Vagrant Shifter
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Second-strongest match for The Backworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld.
An RPG about Life, Death, and all that we leave behind...
Legends of Astravia
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Third-strongest match for The Backworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backworld.
Dynamic battles, twisting dungeons, and countless secrets await you in the magical world of Astravia. Journey alongside your companions as you unravel the mystery of your past and uncover the truth behind a mysterious trio’s plot... before the Cataclysm brings forth another age of ruin.
Sin or Suffer
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Ranked #4 for The Backworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backworld.
Sin or Suffer is a brutal mix of survival-horror and JRPG. Locked in a medieval prison, you awake amidst a cold silence. The guards are gone; inmates and madness own the place. Something terrible lurks underground. But the only way to the truth is down.
Persona 3 Reload
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Ranked #5 for The Backworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Backworld.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
You Are NOT Bunnygirl
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Ranked #6 for The Backworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld.
Guide Bunnygirl through a lab of malfunctioning robots in this RPG about self-care! Learn how to weaponize her emotions in combat and meet unhinged robots who seem to know more about her than she does. Can you protect Bunnygirl? And...who is she, anyway??
Persona 3 Portable
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Ranked #7 for The Backworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Backworld.
If I say there’s an hour “hidden” between one day and the next... would you believe me? Master the power of the heart, Persona, and uncover the tragic truth of the Dark Hour.
Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds
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Ranked #8 for The Backworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backworld.
On your maiden voyage with the Heroes Guild, your ship was capsized by an enigmatic maelstrom, stranding your party on Respite Island. Navigate your way through pirates, ferocious beasts, and shady alchemists as you unravel its mysteries.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backworld.
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 Backworld.
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. Shares Indie with The Backworld.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backworld.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backworld.
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. Shares Indie with The Backworld.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backworld.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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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.
Persona 3 Reload
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Backworld.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
Persona 3 Portable
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Backworld.
If I say there’s an hour “hidden” between one day and the next... would you believe me? Master the power of the heart, Persona, and uncover the tragic truth of the Dark Hour.
Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backworld.
On your maiden voyage with the Heroes Guild, your ship was capsized by an enigmatic maelstrom, stranding your party on Respite Island. Navigate your way through pirates, ferocious beasts, and shady alchemists as you unravel its mysteries.
Frequently asked about The Backworld
- What games are most similar to The Backworld?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Backworld are Carnosis, Vagrant Shifter, Legends of Astravia.
- Who developed The Backworld?
- The Backworld was developed by Numor Games and published by Top Hat Studios, Inc..
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 The Backworld.
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