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Games like Amarantus

If Amarantus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Remembering Emily - Mystery visual novel, Made Marion and Sigh of the Abyss — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its choices genuinely impact outcomes, atmospheric and contemplative. 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.

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About Amarantus: Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.

2023AdventureRPG17.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOS · Linuxby ub4q
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Players who liked Amarantus also play

Steam players who put hours into Amarantus 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.

  1. Remembering Emily - Mystery visual novel

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Amarantus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Relive Thomas’s memories in this mystery-filled visual novel. What really happened to Emily? Make choices, explore different versions of events, and uncover two complementary endings that reveal the full truth.

    2025IndieCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Made Marion

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Amarantus.

    Second-strongest match for Amarantus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    A romantic action-adventure visual novel based on Robin Hood lore. Play as Lady Marion and choose what kind of leader and lover you want to become. Join Robin's rowdy rebels in Sherwood or tackle the political pitfalls of the Sheriff's Nottingham. Fight for freedom and fall in love!

    2023IndieAdventureCasual25.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Sigh of the Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Amarantus.

    Third-strongest match for Amarantus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Amarantus.

    Embrace the monster within in this dark fantasy visual novel with inclusive romances. Befriend charming allies, defy bitter rivals, fall in love. Your choices will save or condemn mortals, shaping the fate of a city as beautiful as it is cruel.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG13.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Amarantus.

    Ranked #4 for Amarantus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!

    2022IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Amarantus.

    Ranked #5 for Amarantus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A comic book adventure of freelance supervillainy, petting cats, and/or destroying capitalism in which your choices determine success in a series of daring heists and capers.

    2023IndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Mask of the Rose

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Amarantus.

    Ranked #6 for Amarantus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Amarantus.

    A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.

    2023RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Amarantus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.

    2026IndieAdventureCasual13.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Life is Strange: True Colors

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Amarantus.

    Ranked #8 for Amarantus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.

    2021ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Amarantus at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Amarantus on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Amarantus.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Amarantus on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Amarantus on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Amarantus on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Amarantus.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Amarantus on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Amarantus.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Amarantus on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Amarantus.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Amarantus on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Amarantus on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Made Marion

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Amarantus.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    A romantic action-adventure visual novel based on Robin Hood lore. Play as Lady Marion and choose what kind of leader and lover you want to become. Join Robin's rowdy rebels in Sherwood or tackle the political pitfalls of the Sheriff's Nottingham. Fight for freedom and fall in love!

    2023IndieAdventureCasual25.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Amarantus.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.

    A comic book adventure of freelance supervillainy, petting cats, and/or destroying capitalism in which your choices determine success in a series of daring heists and capers.

    2023IndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Mask of the Rose

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Amarantus.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Amarantus.

    A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.

    2023RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Life is Strange: True Colors

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Amarantus.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Amarantus.

    Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.

    2021ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Amarantus

Is Amarantus verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Amarantus 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 Amarantus cost?
Amarantus is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Amarantus?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Amarantus are Remembering Emily - Mystery visual novel, Made Marion, Sigh of the Abyss.
Who developed Amarantus?
Amarantus was developed by ub4q.

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 Amarantus.

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