Games like Anodyne
If Anodyne is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dank Wizard Saga, Bastion of the Eldritch and Coralina — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ethereal story lingers emotionally, contemplative and eerie. 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 →About Anodyne: A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!
Players who liked Anodyne also play
Steam players who put hours into Anodyne 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.
Dank Wizard Saga
WHY THIS
Top pick for Anodyne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anodyne.
Explore a handcrafted fantasy world, solve puzzles, battle dungeon bosses, and unlock powerful upgrades in this retro-inspired action-adventure with stoner comedy.
Bastion of the Eldritch
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Anodyne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
WARNING: This game is fair, but difficult. Keyboard is supported, but gamepad/controller use is strongly advised. If you're looking for a retro, pixel art style survival horror challenge, this is for you. This game doesn't hold your hand and game mechanics are deeper than they seem on the surface.
Coralina
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Anodyne.
Third-strongest match for Anodyne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anodyne.
A RETRO RPG about lost MEMORIES in the LIMBO! Coralina needs to solve cases, alongside a Crow with a tophat.
The Dungeon Persists
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Anodyne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
A top-down, pixel-art roguelike dungeon crawler. Pick one of 6 heroes and descend through an endless run of procedurally generated floors. Build a run from weapons, relics and gear, fight 24 enemy types and 4 bosses, and carry meta-progression forward. It was here before you. It will be here after.
Temple Maker 64
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Anodyne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
Temple Maker 64 is a third-person dungeon creator. Build dungeons full of traps and puzzles, or grab your sword and explore community-made dungeons. Choose from a vast selection of items, monsters, puzzle elements, and bosses, all wrapped up in an N64-inspired love letter.
Elementallis
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Anodyne.
Ranked #6 for Anodyne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
Top-down action-adventure with elemental magic gameplay. Guided by guilt, you embark on a journey to restore the elements in a dying world. Harness and master elemental powers to fight enemies, solve puzzles, and explore a vast world filled with ancient temples.
Monster Portal
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Anodyne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
Monster Portal is a roguelite with dungeon-crawler like elements. It follows one of your world's last few powerful heroes, sent on a quest to rid the planet of monsters and their gruesome overlords that have overtaken your world from hellish dimensions.
Skeleton Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Anodyne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
Explore the dungeon and defeat the Skeleton King!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Anodyne
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OneShot
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Anodyne.
Reviewers of Anodyne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anodyne.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Yume Nikki
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Anodyne.
Reviewers of Anodyne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anodyne.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
OMORI
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Anodyne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anodyne.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Eastward
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Anodyne.
Reviewers of Anodyne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…
OFF
WHY THIS
Shares an eerie mood with Anodyne.
Reviewers of Anodyne cross-mention this title as a similar play.
“I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.
Awakening
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Anodyne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
Put an end to the chaos in this 2D action platformer! Engage in hand-to-hand combat against the gangs of Everseam, earn upgrades, and take down bosses vying for control of the city
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anodyne at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Anodyne on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Anodyne.
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 Anodyne on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
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 Anodyne on Steam right now. Shares Action with Anodyne.
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 Anodyne on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
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 Anodyne on Steam right now. Shares Action with Anodyne.
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 Anodyne on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anodyne.
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 Anodyne on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anodyne.
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 Anodyne on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Anodyne.
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 and Casual with Anodyne.
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 Anodyne.
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 Anodyne.
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 Anodyne.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Anodyne.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anodyne.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Melos Han-Tani
Other recommendable Steam games by Melos Han-Tani, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Anodyne.
Another title from Melos Han-Tani, the studio behind Anodyne. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anodyne.
A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.
Angeline Era
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Anodyne.
Another title from Melos Han-Tani, the studio behind Anodyne. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away!
Even the Ocean
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Anodyne.
Another title from Melos Han-Tani, the studio behind Anodyne. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
A story-rich 2D platformer where you'll delve into dangerous power plants and massive creatures, while uncovering the truth of your world. Explore towns and cities, and help a world thrown out of balance!
Sephonie
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Anodyne.
Another title from Melos Han-Tani, the studio behind Anodyne. Shares Action and Indie with Anodyne.
In this 3D, story-driven platforming adventure, explore an uninhabited island's massive cave network. Learn about the heroes' psyches as you explore lush caverns, subterranean oceans, and surreal cityscapes, all while meeting surprising creatures! By Anodyne & Angeline Era's devs!
All Our Asias
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Anodyne.
Another title from Melos Han-Tani, the studio behind Anodyne. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anodyne.
In this free 3D adventure, explore someone's mind and discover their secrets in a surreal story about a father, son, Asian-America and more. Explore a dying father's "Memory World", and travel to familiar, supernatural spaces. By Melos, co-creator of Anodyne and Angeline Era.
Frequently asked about Anodyne
- Is Anodyne verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Anodyne 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 Anodyne cost?
- Anodyne is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Anodyne?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anodyne are Dank Wizard Saga, Bastion of the Eldritch, Coralina.
- Who developed Anodyne?
- Anodyne was developed by Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka and published by Analgesic Productions.
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