Games like Eldritch Empathy
If Eldritch Empathy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Curious Expedition, Unknown Darkness and Echoes of the Abyss — 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 Eldritch Empathy: Learn the language of an eldritch behemoth in the Lovecraftian rogue-lite Eldritch Empathy. Study cosmic horrors to uncover their mysteries or eliminate them and face the repercussions. Your decisions will shape the fate of humanity.
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Curious Expedition
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Top pick for Eldritch Empathy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Eldritch Empathy.
Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.
Unknown Darkness
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Second-strongest match for Eldritch Empathy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Eldritch Empathy.
Unknown Darkness is a Lovecraftian story-driven tactical RPG with roguelite deck-building, set in a twisted version of 1920s America. Command America's shadow agency, born from the horrors of WWI, as a forgotten cult tries to wake a sleeping god. Can you keep the chaos from swallowing the world?
Echoes of the Abyss
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Third-strongest match for Eldritch Empathy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eldritch Empathy.
A weird action roguelike, where world changes based on your Sanity meter. It’s a fast-paced 90-2000s style action adventure. Eat or be eaten. Grow from Prey into Hunter. Build ability-combos to survive. Uncover secrets of your lost humanity.
Pool of Madness
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Ranked #4 for Eldritch Empathy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eldritch Empathy.
A Lovecraftian roguelite pool. Shoot some balls. Unleash horrors from beyond. Go insane. Try again.
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
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Ranked #5 for Eldritch Empathy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Eldritch Empathy.
CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!
Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery
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Ranked #6 for Eldritch Empathy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Eldritch Empathy.
Experience the newest tactical RPG from the creators of Girls’ Frontline. Some 30 years in the future, AU agent Mendo and the mysterious girl Jefuty find themselves in gruesome battles against armed URNC forces…
Curious Expedition 2
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Ranked #7 for Eldritch Empathy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Eldritch Empathy.
Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.
Eldritch
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Ranked #8 for Eldritch Empathy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eldritch Empathy.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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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 Eldritch Empathy.
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 Eldritch Empathy.
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 Eldritch Empathy.
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 Eldritch Empathy.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Eldritch Empathy.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Eldritch Empathy.
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.
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 Eldritch Empathy.
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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Frequently asked about Eldritch Empathy
- What games are most similar to Eldritch Empathy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Eldritch Empathy are Curious Expedition, Unknown Darkness, Echoes of the Abyss.
- Who developed Eldritch Empathy?
- Eldritch Empathy was developed by LUAL Games KIG and published by Team17.
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 Eldritch Empathy.
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