Games like Waven
If Waven is your kind of game, the closest matches are KING's RAID, Temtem and New Citizen - Alpha — 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.
Get personalized picks →Waven is a tactical RPG developed by Ankama Studio that launched in 2023 as a free-to-play title in Early Access. The game blends deck-building mechanics with turn-based combat on a grid, where positioning plays a key role in tactical decision-making. Players develop their characters through progression systems and class specializations, allowing for significant build variety. Reviewers highlight the deck-building mechanics as enabling creative combinations, while also noting that competitive PvP modes exist alongside co-op PvE content. The game spans a massive length with dungeon-crawler and adventure elements set in a fantasy world. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, challenging, and contemplative with a nostalgic quality. The title is playable on Steam Deck and has received 71 percent positive reviews from 1496 Steam users.
About Waven: Forge your own destiny! Choose your character, equip your best spells and sail from island to island in quest of fortune and glory. Level up your hero and your strategy in this free-to-play tactical multiplayer RPG with unique colorful graphics.
Players who liked Waven also play
Steam players who put hours into Waven 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.
KING's RAID
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Top pick for Waven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Waven.
Experience real-time strategic battles in the RPG King's Raid. Combine hero skills and explore an immersive world unique to King's Raid. Join countless heroes on an endless adventure full of action and strategy.
Temtem
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Waven.
Second-strongest match for Waven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Waven.
Temtem is an online creature-collection adventure. Tame 165 unique creatures across 7 vibrant islands, battle other tamers, tackle mythical Lairs, chase Luma & Umbra variants, and breed your favorite Tems - with friends by your side! Dive into a colorful monster catching adventure, so Temtem up!
New Citizen - Alpha
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Third-strongest match for Waven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Waven.
New Citizen is a modern-themed roleplay adventure game set in a vast open world. The game focuses mainly on the player, creating an environment that feels alive and that is constantly moving.
Battle of Heroes 3
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Ranked #4 for Waven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Waven.
The hero acts as a mercenary who is sent to the border of the kingdom. Use combat and magic skills, explore the fantasy world, develop a hero and warriors, towers, aura, magic, weapons. Explore and create magical items. Grow a dragon or a cerberus.
Minion Masters
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Shares deck building and a nostalgic mood with Waven.
Ranked #5 for Waven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Waven.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
ACE Ninja Path
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Ranked #6 for Waven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Waven.
Ace Ninja Path is a 2D turn-based role-playing game where players control a ninja and take part in strategic battles
Hex Gambit: Respawned
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Ranked #7 for Waven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waven.
Hex Gambit: Respawned is a quirky and competitive digital board game for 1-4 players that’s easy to pick up and hard to put down!
Battles For Glory
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Ranked #8 for Waven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Free To Play with Waven.
Battles for Glory is a free MMORPG where opposition of parties and control of the world map are combined.
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More from Ankama Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Ankama Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
One More Gate : A Wakfu Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Waven.
Another title from Ankama Studio, the studio behind Waven. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Waven.
One More Gate is a rogue-lite deck-builder that combines exploration and turn-based strategic combat. Head out to discover fantastic places, master the power of Wakfu to create destructive card combos, and defeat all those who would stand in your way!
WAKFU
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Shares grid based combat, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Waven.
Another title from Ankama Studio, the studio behind Waven. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Waven.
Immerse yourself in the WAKFU universe with this free to play MMORPG. Select your class, travel the world, meet adventurers to challenge powerful monsters in epic turn-based battles.Participate in the kingdom’s economy and politics and create your own legend!
Dofus
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Another title from Ankama Studio, the studio behind Waven. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Waven.
A VAST WORLD JUST WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED! Touchdown in the World of Twelve and set off on a great adventure in DOFUS - an original massively multiplayer online role playing universe where humor goes hand in hand with action-packed, tactical battles.
Krosmaster Arena
WHY THIS
Another title from Ankama Studio, the studio behind Waven. Shares Strategy and Free To Play with Waven.
BECOME MASTER OF THE KROSMOZ! Challenge players over the world in a tactical board game of strategy and epic battles! Discover more than a hundred fighters and face down your enemies in ruthless battles.
ABRACA - Imagic Games
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Another title from Ankama Studio, the studio behind Waven.
Imagi is the country where fairy tale characters live, with its bad guys and damsels in distress. So much so that becoming prince charming is a treacherous path where the gloves really come off! Two, three or four players all pretend to be princes who must survive a series of challenges!
KROSMAGA
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Waven.
Another title from Ankama Studio, the studio behind Waven. Shares Strategy and Free To Play with Waven.
Krosmaga is a game of skill where the Twelve Gods of the Krosmoz universe settle their differences by pitting creatures, mortals, and demi-gods against each other in a battle of truly epic proportions!
Frequently asked about Waven
- Does Waven run on Steam Deck?
- Waven is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Waven free to play?
- Yes — Waven is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Waven have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Waven supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Waven?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Waven are KING's RAID, Temtem, New Citizen - Alpha.
- Who developed Waven?
- Waven was developed by Ankama Studio and published by Ankama Games, New Tales.
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