Games like Elin
If Elin is your kind of game, the closest matches are Caves of Qud, Knightblade and Depths of Faveg — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, immersive and whimsical. 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 Elin: Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
Players who liked Elin also play
Steam players who put hours into Elin 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.
Caves of Qud
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Elin.
Top pick for Elin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
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.
Knightblade
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Elin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
A retro open world RPG, farming sim, and dungeon crawler. Knightblade is best described as an open world fantasy game mixed with farming and life sim elements, as if it were made in the golden age of video games. Create your character, and explore the sandbox while solving a mystery.
Depths of Faveg
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Elin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
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?
The Doors of Trithius
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Elin.
Ranked #4 for Elin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?
Lolita Expedition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Elin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
Around a game called《Lolita Expedition》, it tells the story of playing in dreams and the incredible things that all kinds of players encounter here. It seems that dreams are invading the real world. In order to uncover the truth of the event, we did our best to investigate……
Starlight Riddles
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Elin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
Starlight City is a city where the boundaries of reality blur. Awakening in an unfamiliar city with no memories of the past, you discover that not only you suffer from amnesia. The city's inhabitants have also lost their connection to their past, shrouding the place in mysteries.
Beast Slayer
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Elin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
Embark on an adventure in an 8-bit open world where monsters roam free. Track down and defeat dangerous beasts. With different classes & genders, skills & spells, each time you play will be different. Feel the nostalgia as you listen to an 8-bit soundtrack while flying on the wings of a dragon.
Rogue Fable IV
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Elin.
Ranked #8 for Elin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Elin
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Elin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
Disgaea PC
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Elin.
Reviewers of Elin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Elin.
The hotheaded Laharl seeks to be the next big Overlord in the Netherworld...and will destroy anyone that gets in his way! With his devious vassal Etna and the angel trainee Flonne as his unlikely allies, he must battle his way to supremacy and retake the throne in this over-the-top RPG adventure!
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Elin.
Reviewers of Elin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Elin.
Reviewers of Elin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Elin.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Elin.
Reviewers of Elin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Elin.
Reviewers of Elin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Elin.
Reviewers of Elin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Elin.
Reviewers of Elin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Elin at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Elin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Elin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Elin.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Elin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Elin on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Elin.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Elin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
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 ~65% under Elin on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Elin.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elin.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
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 with Elin.
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 Indie and RPG with Elin.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about Elin
- Does Elin run on Steam Deck?
- Elin 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 Elin cost?
- Elin is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Elin?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Elin are Caves of Qud, Knightblade, Depths of Faveg.
- Who developed Elin?
- Elin was developed by Lafrontier.
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 Elin.
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