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Games like Aarklash: Legacy

If Aarklash: Legacy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Avaria: Iron Rule, The Waylanders and Drakensang — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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.

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About Aarklash: Legacy: In Aarklash: Legacy take command of a mercenary squad in search of truth and guide it through countless battles.Welcome to Aarklash, a land of chaos where incessant battles between the forces of Light, Destiny and Darkness have lasted since the beginning of time.

2013StrategyAdventure15.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 72Windowsby Cyanide Studio
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Steam players who put hours into Aarklash: Legacy 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.

  1. Avaria: Iron Rule

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Aarklash: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    An isometric, party-based, real-time with pause RPG exploring the taboos of colonialism, power, punishment and the rule of law. Set in a rich fantasy world, Avaria: Iron Rule offers complex choices, deep dialogues and intense tactical battles inspired by classics of the genre.

  2. The Waylanders

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Aarklash: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Slip the bonds of fate in this party-based RPG filled with Celtic myth and historical legend. Discover thrilling adventure alongside mortal companions and immortal allies as you explore the world of The Waylanders.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie34.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Drakensang

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Third-strongest match for Aarklash: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Drakensang is a third-person party-based RPG based on the pen & paper role-play rules of The Dark Eye. Drakensang is the first PC game for over 10 years to be based on Germany's most successful and popular role-play system. Drakensang builds on the pen & paper rules as applied in version 4.0.

    2009RPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Ranked #4 for Aarklash: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is the first isometric party-based cRPG set in the Pathfinder fantasy universe. Enjoy a classic RPG experience inspired by games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and Arcanum. Explore and conquer the Stolen Lands and make them your kingdom!

    2018AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dungeon Siege II

    WHY THIS

    Shares skill trees and an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Ranked #5 for Aarklash: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    It’s been a generation since you vanquished the evil that plagued the Land of Ehb, and now…a new menace has awakened. In Dungeon Siege II, the sequel to the best-selling RPG from Gas Powered Games, you will be called on to again wield sword and spell to save the world from a growing abomination many years in the making.

    2005RPG6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

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

    The classic adventure returns! Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition includes the original Baldur’s Gate adventure, the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion, and all-new content including three new party members.

    2013AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Tyranny

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Ranked #7 for Aarklash: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.

    2016AdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Ranked #8 for Aarklash: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Black Geyser is an isometric, party-based fantasy RPG inspired by genre classics. Recruit characters with unique personalities and explore a land ravaged by civil war and a mysterious curse of greed. Your choices, good or evil, will decide the fate of the Kingdom of Isilmerald.

    2022IndieRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Aarklash: Legacy

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.

  1. Pillars of Eternity

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Reviewers of Aarklash: Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.

    2015RPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Borderlands 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares skill trees and a challenging mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Reviewers of Aarklash: Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.

    2012ActionRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Reviewers of Aarklash: Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition revives the classic RPG with fresh updates for modern players. Build a party of Dungeons & Dragons heroes and explore the frozen tundra in this retro fantasy adventure.

    2014AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tower of Time

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Aarklash: Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Aarklash: Legacy.

    A new kind of RPG awaits you. A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Now with RPGlite and Permadeath for fast-paced game.

    2018StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. SKALD: Against the Black Priory

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Reviewers of Aarklash: Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat

    2024IndieRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aarklash: Legacy at current Steam store prices.

  1. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Aarklash: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Aarklash: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Aarklash: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Aarklash: Legacy.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Aarklash: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Aarklash: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Aarklash: Legacy.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Aarklash: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~94% under Aarklash: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Aarklash: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Trick & Treat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.

    2016IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sprout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Cyanide Studio

Other recommendable Steam games by Cyanide Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Call of Cthulhu®

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Aarklash: Legacy. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.

    2018AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Styx: Master of Shadows

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Aarklash: Legacy.

    Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.

    2014Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Styx: Shards of Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Aarklash: Legacy. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.

    2017ActionAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Blood Bowl 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Aarklash: Legacy. Shares Strategy with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Brutal, crazy, tactical… this is BLOOD BOWL! The iconic death sport returns with the new video game of fantasy football faithfully using the latest board game rules and new content. Create your team, then crush, mulch and cheat your way to the top... leaving your opponents in the graveyard.

    2023SportsStrategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Aarklash: Legacy.

    Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.

    2023Simulation4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Of Orcs And Men

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Aarklash: Legacy.

    You have been appointed to fulfill an extremely dangerous mission, deep in enemy territory: to kill one man... the Emperor himself. Lead the revolution of the Orcs and Goblins!

    2012ActionRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Rogue Lords

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Aarklash: Legacy.

    Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Aarklash: Legacy. Shares Strategy with Aarklash: Legacy.

    A dark fantasy roguelike where you play as the Devil! Lead famous evil geniuses through events and turn-based fights to spread terror and corruption. Create synergies between your disciples, use your evil powers and take revenge on those miserable Demon Hunters.

    2021StrategyRPG2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Aarklash: Legacy. Shares Adventure with Aarklash: Legacy.

    You are Cahal, a powerful Garou who chose to go into exile after losing control of his destructive rage. He can transform into a wolf and a Crinos, a huge ferocious beast. Master your three forms and their powers to punish those who defile Gaia.

    2022ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Aarklash: Legacy

Does Aarklash: Legacy run on Steam Deck?
Aarklash: Legacy 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 Aarklash: Legacy cost?
Aarklash: Legacy is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Aarklash: Legacy?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aarklash: Legacy are Avaria: Iron Rule, The Waylanders, Drakensang.
Who developed Aarklash: Legacy?
Aarklash: Legacy was developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Nacon.

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