Games like The Tainted Lands
If The Tainted Lands is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Great Wastes, Company Captain: Westashes and Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit — 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 The Tainted Lands: Tainted Lands is a turn-based tactical RPG in an eldritch fantasy setting. Lead a band of adventurers to traverse a forbidden wilderness where ancient horrors lie in wait. Recruit companions, scavenge relics, and face the Outer Gods.
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Steam players who put hours into The Tainted Lands 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.
The Great Wastes
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Top pick for The Tainted Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Tainted Lands.
"The Great Wastes" is a pixelated fantasy RPG. Players take on the role of a mysterious young man living in an isolated village. One day, the village is suddenly attacked by a group of unidentified black-clad individuals, forcing the young man to flee with his childhood sweetheart and companions.
Company Captain: Westashes
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Second-strongest match for The Tainted Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Tainted Lands.
Command a mercenary Free Company in a brutal, dynamic medieval world. Navigate the overworld, manage your roster, and fight unforgiving hex-grid tactical battles where factions and characters remember your actions and every mercenary's death is permanent... or not...
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit
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Third-strongest match for The Tainted Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Tainted Lands.
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit is the grand finale to the tactical RPG trilogy. Command a massive cast of returning heroes in the series’ most strategic entry yet. Master evolved turn-based combat, guide your army through tactical challenges, and witness the conclusion to every character's story.
Fantasy Classic: Dungeon Crawler
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Ranked #4 for The Tainted Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Early Access with The Tainted Lands.
Travel to Midenshire, form your party, and venture forth into adventure! Fantasy Classic: Dungeon Crawler is an old-school party-based CRPG of dungeon exploration, tactical combat, traps, treasure, light vs dark, clashing steel, high magic, and white knuckle survival.
Ledgerbound
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Ranked #5 for The Tainted Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Tainted Lands.
Deny an insurance claim, save the world. Ledgerbound is a hilarious, narrative-driven tactical RPG/dating sim filled with all your favorite epic fantasy activities: battling evil enemies, filling out paperwork, rescuing your company from financial ruin, pursuing HR-approved relationships, and more!
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
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Ranked #6 for The Tainted Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Tainted Lands.
Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.
Prophecy of Ashen
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Ranked #7 for The Tainted Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
Prophecy of Ashen: a dark fantasy tactical CRPG. Be a secret messenger between the Hall's judgment and the Ashborne's vengeance. Recruit allies, use terrain and magic in turn-based combat. Your choices reshape Rattalan: uphold order or ignite destruction.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
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Ranked #8 for The Tainted Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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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 The Tainted Lands.
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.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Tainted Lands.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Tainted Lands.
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Paper Lily - 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 The Tainted Lands.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tainted Lands.
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.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Tainted Lands.
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Frequently asked about The Tainted Lands
- What games are most similar to The Tainted Lands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Tainted Lands are The Great Wastes, Company Captain: Westashes, Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit.
- Who developed The Tainted Lands?
- The Tainted Lands was developed by Arete 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 The Tainted Lands.
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