Games like Shadows Over Loathing
If Shadows Over Loathing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Travelling At Night, Single Malt Apocalypse and The Broken Ceiling — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its writing quality is exceptional, atmospheric and whimsical. 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 →Shadows Over Loathing is a comedy RPG set during the jazz age, blending slapstick humor with necromancy-themed adventures. Players navigate branching narrative paths while engaging in turn-based combat, managing inventory, and interacting with the environment. The game incorporates time-travel mechanics and dialogue-driven diplomacy. Players describe the combat systems as engaging and varied, and reviewers highlight that the lore is rich and intricate. Critics describe it as atmospheric and whimsical, offering a lengthy single-player adventure designed for extended play sessions. The game is verified on Steam Deck and currently holds a 96% positive rating from over 2,800 Steam reviews.
About Shadows Over Loathing: Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.
Players who liked Shadows Over Loathing also play
Steam players who put hours into Shadows Over Loathing 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.
Travelling At Night
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shadows Over Loathing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
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.
Single Malt Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shadows Over Loathing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
Save the sleepy mining town from a cosmic threat in this late 80s-style adventure with RPG elements. Retro to the core!
The Broken Ceiling
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shadows Over Loathing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
The Broken Ceiling is a hand-drawn, 2D, top-down eldritch horror adventure where the player must use a fragile light, which constantly needs to be recharged, to hold back the darkness, explore alien caverns, and uncover why fate has summoned a little rabbit into a pit of incomprehensible beings.
Sovereign Syndicate
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadows Over Loathing.
Ranked #4 for Shadows Over Loathing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Shadows Over Loathing.
A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.
Football Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shadows Over Loathing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
Football Story is a cozy street football management and life sim RPG. Train your skills, explore the charming Highshore City, complete side quests, and recruit your dream squad. Lead your teenage neighborhood team from local backyard matches to ultimate glory in this singleplayer adventure!
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares environment interaction and turn based combat with Shadows Over Loathing.
Ranked #6 for Shadows Over Loathing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Shadows Over Loathing.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
Solasta II
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Shadows Over Loathing.
Ranked #7 for Shadows Over Loathing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
In a Mana-infused land, a dark force led by the enigmatic Shadwyn threatens Neokos. Bring your party of adventurers together across perilous realms in this Turn-Based Tactical RPG based on the SRD 5.2 ruleset. You make the choices, dice decide your destiny.
The Nameless: Slay Dragon
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Shadows Over Loathing.
Ranked #8 for Shadows Over Loathing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadows Over Loathing at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Shadows Over Loathing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Loathing.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Shadows Over Loathing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Shadows Over Loathing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Loathing.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Shadows Over Loathing on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Shadows Over Loathing.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Shadows Over Loathing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadows Over Loathing.
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!
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 Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
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 Indie with Shadows Over Loathing.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Loathing.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Loathing.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows Over Loathing.
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 Shadows Over Loathing.
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 Shadows Over Loathing
- Is Shadows Over Loathing verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shadows Over Loathing 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 Shadows Over Loathing cost?
- Shadows Over Loathing is listed on Steam at 22.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadows Over Loathing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadows Over Loathing are Travelling At Night, Single Malt Apocalypse, The Broken Ceiling.
- Who developed Shadows Over Loathing?
- Shadows Over Loathing was developed by Asymmetric.
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 Shadows Over Loathing.
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