Games like Runic Survivor
If Runic Survivor is your kind of game, the closest matches are SHPR, Shape Shifter: Formations and Rogue: Genesia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its satisfying progression curve, contemplative and lighthearted. 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 Runic Survivor: Combine Runes to craft unique spells! Survive the endless hordes of monsters as you work to break the four Runic seals! Runic is a casual horde shooter with rogue-lite elements and a charming retro aesthetic.
Players who liked Runic Survivor also play
Steam players who put hours into Runic Survivor 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.
SHPR
WHY THIS
Top pick for Runic Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Runic Survivor.
SHPR is an arena survival roguelike in which you have to buy items while creating amazing builds and synergies that will help you defeat enemies and bosses to be able to pass to the next stages.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Runic Survivor.
Second-strongest match for Runic Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Runic Survivor.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Rogue: Genesia
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Runic Survivor.
Third-strongest match for Runic Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Runic Survivor.
Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
Noobs Want to Live
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Runic Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!
Nova Drift
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Runic Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.
20 Minutes Till Dawn
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Runic Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Runic Survivor.
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares procedural progression and a contemplative mood with Runic Survivor.
Ranked #7 for Runic Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Twilight Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Runic Survivor.
Ranked #8 for Runic Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
A time-limited survival game infused with rogue-lite elements and an adorable art style! The world has plunged into darkness, and you are its sole beacon of hope. Will you endure until dawn, or succumb to repeated deaths in your quest? Fear not, for you can collect more coins to arm yourself!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Runic Survivor
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Noita
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Runic Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Runic Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
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!
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Runic Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Runic Survivor.
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok, is a challenging Norse inspired roguelite-survivor game, where you’ll have to survive hordes of creatures that come your way.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Runic Survivor at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Runic Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Runic Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Runic Survivor.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Runic Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Runic Survivor.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Runic Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Runic Survivor.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Runic Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Runic Survivor.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Runic Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Runic Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Runic Survivor.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Runic Survivor.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Runic Survivor.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Runic Survivor.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Runic Survivor.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Runic Survivor.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Nova Drift
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.
20 Minutes Till Dawn
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Runic Survivor.
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares procedural progression and a contemplative mood with Runic Survivor.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Runic Survivor.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Frequently asked about Runic Survivor
- How much does Runic Survivor cost?
- Runic Survivor is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Runic Survivor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Runic Survivor are SHPR, Shape Shifter: Formations, Rogue: Genesia.
- Who developed Runic Survivor?
- Runic Survivor was developed by STEELDUCK Studios.
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