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Games like Loya

If Loya is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starting Life In Another World Naked, Broken World and Settletopia — 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.

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About Loya: Command walking fortresses to battle giant monsters in this open world survival rpg! Play alone or bring your friends to explore, farm, fight, build and craft to unravel the mysteries of Loya!

IndieAdventureRPGEarly AccessWindowsby Joyen
Loya — Steam game cover

Players who liked Loya also play

Steam players who put hours into Loya 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. Starting Life In Another World Naked

    WHY THIS

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

    You will venture into a world much like ours before you are "taken" to another world, a fantasy world. You are the hero of this new world, but sadly you start off with nothing. You must survive and build your way to defeating the Demon King; that's why you were summoned in the first place.

    2022AdventureMassively MultiplayerRPG7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Broken World

    WHY THIS

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

    "Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Settletopia

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Loya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  4. Necesse

    WHY THIS

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

    Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Plains of Pain

    WHY THIS

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

    Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ARK: Survival Ascended

    WHY THIS

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

    ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Wayward

    WHY THIS

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

    You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dark and Light

    WHY THIS

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

    Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

    2017ActionAdventureSimulation17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 ↗
  4. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.

    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 ↗
  6. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

    WHY THIS

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

    Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!

    2021IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Wheelchair Wizards

    WHY THIS

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

    Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.

    2025ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Loya

Does Loya have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Loya supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Loya?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Loya are Starting Life In Another World Naked, Broken World, Settletopia.
Who developed Loya?
Loya was developed by Joyen.

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 Loya.

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