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Games like A Valley Without Wind

If A Valley Without Wind is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Valley Without Wind 2, Plague Breaker and CreatorCrate — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, melancholic and relaxing. 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 A Valley Without Wind: You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.

2012ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 54Windows · macOS · Linuxby Arcen Games
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Players who liked A Valley Without Wind also play

Steam players who put hours into A Valley Without Wind 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. A Valley Without Wind 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Top pick for A Valley Without Wind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Plague Breaker

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for A Valley Without Wind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Plague Breaker is a retro roguelike platformer with heavy RPG elements. Pick your class and ascend a procedurally generated castle filled with undead monsters and corrupted plague doctors. Level up your character and find items, weapons, and traders along the way before taking on each floors boss.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. CreatorCrate

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for A Valley Without Wind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    A fast, chaotic, and totally unique platformer with roguelike elements. Outsmart everything that wants you dead with your grabby robot arm. Rampage through a massive circular space station. Grab, stab, block, throw, and devour your enemies! More than run and shoot: improvise and CREATE!

    2021ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Otherworld Legends

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Ranked #4 for A Valley Without Wind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    A "blood-pumping, face-bashing" roguelike brawler. Master heroes of your choice, craft uniquely broken builds, and hack & pummel through a myriad of dungeons in a thrilling rampage.

    2024ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Abyss Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Ranked #5 for A Valley Without Wind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…

    2014ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Streets of Rogue

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation with A Valley Without Wind.

    Ranked #6 for A Valley Without Wind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Dead Cells

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation with A Valley Without Wind.

    Ranked #7 for A Valley Without Wind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. A Robot Named Fight!

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Ranked #8 for A Valley Without Wind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.

    2017ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to A Valley Without Wind

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. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation with A Valley Without Wind.

    Reviewers of A Valley Without Wind cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

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

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Utopia

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Reviewers of A Valley Without Wind cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Utopia is a relaxing city builder strategy game with puzzle elements.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Missile Command: Recharged (2020)

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of A Valley Without Wind cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with A Valley Without Wind.

    Fire missiles to protect your bases! A classic arcade game's back and recharged!

    2020ActionCasualDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Valley Without Wind at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under A Valley Without Wind on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under A Valley Without Wind on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under A Valley Without Wind on Steam right now. Shares Action with A Valley Without Wind.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under A Valley Without Wind on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under A Valley Without Wind on Steam right now. Shares Action with A Valley Without Wind.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under A Valley Without Wind on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under A Valley Without Wind on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under A Valley Without Wind on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Valley Without Wind.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗
  4. 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 A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    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 ↗

More from Arcen Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Arcen Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Heart of the Machine

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind.

    You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

    2026StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. AI War 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. AI War: Fleet Command

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    "You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...

    2009StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Last Federation

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Bionic Dues

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.

    2013StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Starward Rogue

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.

    2016ActionIndieRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Skyward Collapse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind. Shares Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. A Valley Without Wind 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck 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. Plague Breaker

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Plague Breaker is a retro roguelike platformer with heavy RPG elements. Pick your class and ascend a procedurally generated castle filled with undead monsters and corrupted plague doctors. Level up your character and find items, weapons, and traders along the way before taking on each floors boss.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Abyss Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…

    2014ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Dead Cells

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation with A Valley Without Wind.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. A Robot Named Fight!

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Valley Without Wind.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with A Valley Without Wind.

    A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.

    2017ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about A Valley Without Wind

Does A Valley Without Wind run on Steam Deck?
A Valley Without Wind is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does A Valley Without Wind cost?
A Valley Without Wind is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does A Valley Without Wind have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — A Valley Without Wind supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to A Valley Without Wind?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Valley Without Wind are A Valley Without Wind 2, Plague Breaker, CreatorCrate.
Who developed A Valley Without Wind?
A Valley Without Wind was developed by Arcen Games.

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 A Valley Without Wind.

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