Games like YOW
If YOW is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kings Archer VR, Old War and Uphold The Realm — 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 YOW: YOW - YE OLDE WORLD is a new gaming experience. 3D representation, physically very correct object destruction and intuitive operation with fun potential in the game. Catapult. Targets. Opponents. Projectile arsenal from simple to painful - This makes playing fun.
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Steam players who put hours into YOW 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.
Kings Archer VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for YOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
In this atmospheric world dominated by darkness and snowstorms, you stand on the walls of a massive fortress, the kingdom's last line of defense.
Old War
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for YOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
A cinematic medieval action adventure set during the Mongol invasions. Survive brutal battles, hunt your enemies, and lead your people through a collapsing world.
Uphold The Realm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for YOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
Uphold The Realm is a VR Tower Defense game that lets you take command of your wargames style campaign map to interact with levels and manage towers. When your ready - Shrink down onto the table and use your archery skills to defend against the oncoming hordes.
Save the settlers
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for YOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with YOW.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
Tiny Archers VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for YOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
Draw your bow and defend your kingdom in this immersive VR tower defense archery game! Step into the role of the realm's finest archer as you face waves of attacks from cunning goblins and ruthless orcs. Test your skills, compete on leaderboards, and be part of the evolving community!
Defensive Measures
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for YOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
Defensive Measures is an FPS/Tower Defense Hybrid game. Deal with your enemies first hand or let your turrets do the talking while you sit back and enjoy the show.
Toy War - Cannon
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for YOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
Control a toy сannon. Shoot the toy soldiers with the toy gun just like you did when you were a kid.
Mounted War
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for YOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
Mounted War is a third-person shooter where players ride horses, shoot, and command armies. Deep strategy and action: using military units like archers and cavalry for victory through medieval battles and trade.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below YOW at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under YOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with YOW.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under YOW on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under YOW on Steam right now. Shares Action with YOW.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under YOW on Steam right now. Shares Action with YOW.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under YOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie with YOW.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under YOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with YOW.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under YOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with YOW.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under YOW on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with YOW.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
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 YOW.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with YOW.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with YOW.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with YOW.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about YOW
- How much does YOW cost?
- YOW is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to YOW?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside YOW are Kings Archer VR, Old War, Uphold The Realm.
- Who developed YOW?
- YOW was developed by devpoint GmbH.
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 YOW.
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