Games like La-Mulana
If La-Mulana is your kind of game, the closest matches are La-Mulana 2, Horace and ANIMAL WELL — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep lore and humor, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →La-Mulana is an archaeological ruin exploration action game developed by NIGORO and published by PLAYISM. Players explore sprawling ancient ruins, taking notes and solving cryptic puzzles to progress through the massive structure. Reviewers highlight the deep lore and humor woven throughout the experience, while tactical positioning matters during its punishing combat encounters. Players describe the experience as challenging and nostalgic, with exploration at its core. The game released on Steam in 2013 and runs verified on Steam Deck. It currently holds an 82% positive rating from over 1,400 Steam reviews and is priced at $14.99 USD. The solo adventure focuses on uncovering the "Secret Treasure of Life" said to sleep within the ruins.
About La-Mulana: LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Players who liked La-Mulana also play
Steam players who put hours into La-Mulana 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.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with La-Mulana.
Top pick for La-Mulana fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with La-Mulana.
Second-strongest match for La-Mulana fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for La-Mulana fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Teslagrad
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving with La-Mulana.
Ranked #4 for La-Mulana fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with La-Mulana.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with La-Mulana.
Ranked #5 for La-Mulana fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with La-Mulana.
Ranked #6 for La-Mulana fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
The Mummy Demastered
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with La-Mulana.
Ranked #7 for La-Mulana fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with La-Mulana.
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
Ori and the Blind Forest
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for La-Mulana fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with La-Mulana.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below La-Mulana at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under La-Mulana on Steam right now. Shares Indie with La-Mulana.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under La-Mulana on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under La-Mulana on Steam right now. Shares Action with La-Mulana.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under La-Mulana on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under La-Mulana on Steam right now. Shares Action with La-Mulana.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under La-Mulana on Steam right now. Shares Indie with La-Mulana.
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 La-Mulana on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with La-Mulana.
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 La-Mulana on Steam right now. Shares Indie with La-Mulana.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with La-Mulana.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with La-Mulana.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
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 Indie and Adventure with La-Mulana.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with La-Mulana.
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 Indie with La-Mulana.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with La-Mulana.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with La-Mulana.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with La-Mulana.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with La-Mulana.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Ori and the Blind Forest
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with La-Mulana.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
Frequently asked about La-Mulana
- Is La-Mulana verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — La-Mulana 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 La-Mulana cost?
- La-Mulana is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to La-Mulana?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside La-Mulana are La-Mulana 2, Horace, ANIMAL WELL.
- Who developed La-Mulana?
- La-Mulana was developed by NIGORO and published by PLAYISM.
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