Games like Alaris
If Alaris is your kind of game, the closest matches are Reanimation Scheme, Arcadie II: Cold Lands and To Find A Home — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Alaris: Discover secrets long forgotten, and nurture relationships waiting to bloom. In a game inspired by the lore of Dragon and Fae, make choices that can shape your story, relationships, and even personality. Will you be brave, kind, wise, charismatic? Only you know the answer to your fate.
Players who liked Alaris also play
Steam players who put hours into Alaris 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.
Reanimation Scheme
WHY THIS
Top pick for Alaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alaris.
An otome game and romance visual novel. Step into the shoes of the necromancer, Raenelle. Meet a colorful cast of characters, fail to summon the spirits of the dead, unravel mysteries, and maybe — just maybe — fall in love.
Arcadie II: Cold Lands
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alaris.
You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.
To Find A Home
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Alaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Alaris.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? Sharing a haunted house with a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost and a fellow witch with a same problem.
Sigh of the Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alaris.
Ranked #4 for Alaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alaris.
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.
Deathwish Bloom
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Alaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alaris.
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel set in a quake post-apocalypse, play as Sky, an impostor scientist racing to recreate a cure only she knows existed. Weave or snap ever-shifting bonds with characters whose harboured obsessions can end your pursuit, just as you can theirs. Unless...
Northanger Abbey
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Alaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Alaris.
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
ARISEN - Chronicles of Var'Nagal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alaris.
Ranked #7 for Alaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alaris.
ARISEN is a narrative card game where you use your emotions to create your own story in a dark fantasy universe.
Arcadia Fallen
WHY THIS
Shares personality system and an atmospheric mood with Alaris.
Ranked #8 for Alaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alaris.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alaris at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Alaris on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alaris.
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 Alaris on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Alaris.
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 Alaris on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Alaris.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Alaris on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alaris.
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 Alaris on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alaris.
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 Alaris on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Alaris.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Alaris on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alaris.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Alaris on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alaris.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Alaris.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Alaris.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alaris.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Alaris.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Alaris.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alaris.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Alaris.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alaris.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Frequently asked about Alaris
- Does Alaris run on Steam Deck?
- Alaris 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 Alaris cost?
- Alaris is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Alaris?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alaris are Reanimation Scheme, Arcadie II: Cold Lands, To Find A Home.
- Who developed Alaris?
- Alaris was developed by Crescence Studio.
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 Alaris.
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