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Games like Rift Wizard 2

If Rift Wizard 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rift Wizard, Rift Wizard 3 and Depths of Faveg — 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.

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About Rift Wizard 2: Rift Wizard 2 is a tough as nails traditional roguelike wizard simulator. You play as an immortal amnesiac wizard who must journey through the cosmos to defeat his nemesis. Each run, you'll build a unique repertoire of spells, passive skills, and magical artifacts.

2025StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDWindowsby Dylan White
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Archmage trials push mastery beyond the main gameBuild variety enables endless theorycraftingEnemy ai and resistances are fully visibleChallengingContemplativeIntense

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Steam players who put hours into Rift Wizard 2 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. Rift Wizard

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Rift Wizard 2.

    Top pick for Rift Wizard 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.

    2021StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Rift Wizard 3

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Rift Wizard 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    Rift Wizard is a hardcore combat strategy roguelike and wizard simulator featuring an extremely deep build system. Customize your Wizard with more than 500 spells and magical artifacts. Blast, summon, or enchant your way through 20 levels of pure turn based chaos.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  3. Depths of Faveg

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Rift Wizard 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

    Fight your way through hordes of monsters, and try to reach the fabled treasure at the bottom of the dungeon of Faveg in this brutal Roguelike RPG. Can you train a party strong enough?

    2024IndieRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Caves of Qud

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Rift Wizard 2.

    Ranked #4 for Rift Wizard 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Feywood Wanderers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Rift Wizard 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    Explore the Feywood as you defeat enemies in tactical, turn-based battles. Find loot, abilities, secrets and meet helpful denizens of the forest as you delve deeper, customize your character with a great variety of classes, races, and equipment in this highly replayable extraction roguelike.

    2026StrategyIndieRPG13.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. Path of Achra

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Rift Wizard 2.

    Ranked #6 for Rift Wizard 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

    Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...

    2024RPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Rogue Fable IV

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Rift Wizard 2.

    Ranked #7 for Rift Wizard 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Mainframe Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Rift Wizard 2.

    Ranked #8 for Rift Wizard 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    MAINFRAME DEFENDERS - Turn-based tactics centered around gear and unit customization. It offers simple combat, high replayability, and tons of loot. Items don't just provide stats boost, but also offer distinct mechanics that can be combined into powerful builds.

    2020StrategyIndieRPG0.89 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Rift Wizard 2

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Rift Wizard 2.

    Reviewers of Rift Wizard 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Path of Achra

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Rift Wizard 2.

    Reviewers of Rift Wizard 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

    Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...

    2024RPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Rift Wizard

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Rift Wizard 2.

    Reviewers of Rift Wizard 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.

    2021StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rift Wizard 2 at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Rift Wizard 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

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

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Rift Wizard 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Rift Wizard 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

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

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Rift Wizard 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Rift Wizard 2 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Rift Wizard 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

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

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Rift Wizard 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

    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 ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Rift Wizard 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Wizard 2.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Wizard 2.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Rift Wizard 2

Does Rift Wizard 2 work on Steam Deck?
Rift Wizard 2 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Rift Wizard 2 cost?
Rift Wizard 2 is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Rift Wizard 2?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rift Wizard 2 are Rift Wizard, Rift Wizard 3, Depths of Faveg.
Who developed Rift Wizard 2?
Rift Wizard 2 was developed by Dylan White.

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 Rift Wizard 2.

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