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Games like Albatroz

Below are 15 hand-picked alternatives to Albatroz for fans of adventure, simulation, rpg, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Albatroz also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.

About Albatroz: Albatroz is a backpacking adventure RPG that will take you through majestic landscapes in search of your lost sibling. A tale about knowing when to let go and start over.

2024AdventureSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Among Giants
Albatroz — Steam game cover
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.

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    Bigfoot Life — Steam game cover

    Bigfoot Life

    Top pick for Albatroz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Albatroz.

    Live as Bigfoot in a peaceful forest-life simulator. Fish, forage, build, and protect wildlife as the guardian of the woods. Create your own Bigfoot and live your best Bigfoot Life.

    2025AdventureSimulationCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — Steam game cover

    Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

    Second-strongest match for Albatroz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Albatroz.

    Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Submerged — Steam game cover

    Submerged

    Third-strongest match for Albatroz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Albatroz.

    Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.

    2015Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Call of the Wild: The Angler™ — Steam game cover

    Call of the Wild: The Angler™

    Ranked #4 for Albatroz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Albatroz.

    The Angler is an open world fishing game that can be played solo or with friends. Discover and catch a wide variety of unique fish species, from common to rare, on your journey to become a master angler.

    2022SportsAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Мухосранск | Russian City Sim — Steam game cover

    Мухосранск | Russian City Sim

    Ranked #5 for Albatroz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Albatroz.

    The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Eastshade — Steam game cover

    Eastshade

    Ranked #6 for Albatroz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Albatroz.

    You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!

    2019IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Wildmender — Steam game cover

    Wildmender

    Ranked #7 for Albatroz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Albatroz.

    A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Cloudpunk — Steam game cover

    Cloudpunk

    Ranked #8 for Albatroz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Albatroz.

    A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Albatroz

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.

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    Journey — Steam game cover

    Journey

    Reviewers of Albatroz cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Albatroz.

    Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.

    2020IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    DEATH STRANDING — Steam game cover

    DEATH STRANDING

    Reviewers of Albatroz cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Albatroz.

    From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.

    2020ActionAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Distortion VR — Steam game cover

    Distortion VR

    Reviewers of Albatroz cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Albatroz.

    The world of Distortion exists in a Cyberpunk mega city in the near future. It is a world where technology is being abused and the citizens are being controlled by thought from birth. What's real is uncertain.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

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    Submerged — Steam game cover

    Submerged

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Albatroz.

    Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.

    2015Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Call of the Wild: The Angler™ — Steam game cover

    Call of the Wild: The Angler™

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Albatroz.

    The Angler is an open world fishing game that can be played solo or with friends. Discover and catch a wide variety of unique fish species, from common to rare, on your journey to become a master angler.

    2022SportsAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Wildmender — Steam game cover

    Wildmender

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Albatroz.

    A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Cloudpunk — Steam game cover

    Cloudpunk

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Albatroz.

    A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Albatroz

Does Albatroz run on Steam Deck?
Albatroz 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 Albatroz cost?
Albatroz is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Albatroz?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Albatroz are Bigfoot Life, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Submerged.
Who developed Albatroz?
Albatroz was developed by Among Giants and published by SOEDESCO.

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 Albatroz.

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