Games like Brutal Legend
If Brutal Legend is your kind of game, the closest matches are Han Xiongnu Wars, SourceWorlds and Conquest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, epic and funny. 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 →Brutal Legend is an open-world action-adventure developed by Double Fine Productions, released in 2013. It combines hack-and-slash combat with real-time strategy segments, alongside character progression, collectible hunting, mini-games, and side-quests. The game is verified on Steam Deck and supports online cooperative play. Players describe the world as atmospheric, epic, funny, and grand, while reviewers highlight how it blends action and strategy uniquely. Jack Black's performance is frequently cited as iconic, and players note the open world feels alive with music, with the story functioning as a love letter to metal. It holds a 94% positive rating from over 6,100 Steam reviews and costs $14.99.
About Brutal Legend: Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
Players who liked Brutal Legend also play
Steam players who put hours into Brutal Legend 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.
Han Xiongnu Wars
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Top pick for Brutal Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Brutal Legend.
Welcome to Han Xiongnu Wars. A stand-along game and synergy of historical Far East and multiple features in role-playing, real-time strategy and action gameplay. This game brings you to the eventful years of the early Han Dynasty, and faithfully presents the ancient eastern culture with many objects and scenes faithfully reconstructed...
SourceWorlds
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Brutal Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brutal Legend.
SourceWorlds is a co-op action-adventure game that throws you into the strange world of the 'Architect'. Solve quests, loot items, defeat enemies, explore the world with your friends or sucker punch them in the PvP arena.
Conquest
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Brutal Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Brutal Legend.
Go from alone in the forest, to leading your army to victory! Choose your weapons and level up to unlock new skills, kill enemies to earn loot and gold, and construct a village to raise an army. The open world is full of enemies and villages, all of which are ready for combat.
Vice: Magic City Mayhem
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Ranked #4 for Brutal Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brutal Legend.
Vice: Magic City Mayhem is a retro action-adventure game where you fight, collect new items, and upgrade your character as you make your way through bustling nightclubs, scenic beaches, and raptor-infested yachts.
Overlord™
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Ranked #5 for Brutal Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt you become depends on how you handle any given situation. Your actions impact the game world. With incredible power at your disposal and a team of evil minded minions to do your evil bidding, how will you resist the temptation to be incredibly despotic?
POSTAL 4: No Regerts
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Ranked #6 for Brutal Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brutal Legend.
POSTAL 4: No Regerts is a satirical and outrageous comedic open world first person shooter and the long-awaited true sequel to what’s been fondly dubbed as "The Worst Game Ever™", POSTAL 2!
Barbaria
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Shares a funny mood with Brutal Legend.
Ranked #7 for Brutal Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Brutal Legend.
Barbaria is a VR combat/builder mashup. Attack other players, build defenses, and equip your team as you compete to be the Mightiest in Barbaria!
Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Brutal Legend.
Ranked #8 for Brutal Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Brutal Legend.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Brutal Legend
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Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
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Shares an epic mood with Brutal Legend.
Reviewers of Brutal Legend cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
Shadows of War
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Reviewers of Brutal Legend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Brutal Legend.
Shadows of War is a 2D Real-Time Strategy sidescroller game. The game combines classical RTS elements with new ideas into a 2D game.
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brutal Legend.
Reviewers of Brutal Legend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Brutal Legend.
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Psychonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Brutal Legend.
Reviewers of Brutal Legend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Brutal Legend.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Brutal Legend at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Brutal Legend on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brutal Legend.
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.
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Priced ~53% under Brutal Legend on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brutal Legend.
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.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Brutal Legend on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Brutal Legend.
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?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Brutal Legend on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brutal Legend.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Brutal Legend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Brutal Legend.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Brutal Legend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Brutal Legend.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Brutal Legend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Brutal Legend.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Brutal Legend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Brutal Legend.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Brutal Legend.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Brutal Legend.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Brutal Legend.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Brutal Legend.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Brutal Legend.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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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.
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More from Double Fine Productions
Other recommendable Steam games by Double Fine Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Psychonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Brutal Legend.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Brutal Legend. Shares Action with Brutal Legend.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
Psychonauts 2
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Brutal Legend.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Brutal Legend. Shares Action and Adventure with Brutal Legend.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
Grim Fandango Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brutal Legend.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Brutal Legend. Shares Adventure with Brutal Legend.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
Broken Age
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brutal Legend.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Brutal Legend. Shares Adventure with Brutal Legend.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
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Shares a funny mood with Brutal Legend.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Brutal Legend. Shares Adventure with Brutal Legend.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
Spacebase DF-9
WHY THIS
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Brutal Legend. Shares Strategy with Brutal Legend.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Costume Quest
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Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Brutal Legend. Shares Adventure with Brutal Legend.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.
Full Throttle Remastered
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Brutal Legend.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Brutal Legend. Shares Adventure with Brutal Legend.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.
Frequently asked about Brutal Legend
- Is Brutal Legend verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Brutal Legend is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Brutal Legend cost?
- Brutal Legend is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Brutal Legend have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Brutal Legend supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Brutal Legend?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Brutal Legend are Han Xiongnu Wars, SourceWorlds, Conquest.
- Who developed Brutal Legend?
- Brutal Legend was developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Double Fine Productions, Xbox Game Studios.
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