Games like Dust: An Elysian Tail
If Dust: An Elysian Tail is your kind of game, the closest matches are Breaking Gates, Guacamelee! Gold Edition and Abyss Odyssey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emotional, 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 →Dust: An Elysian Tail is a 2013 action-adventure indie game developed by Humble Hearts LLC and published by Xbox Game Studios, available for $14.99. Players navigate a hand-drawn fantasy world through metroidvania-style platforming that incorporates backtracking, aerial melee attacks, boss counter mechanics, and hack-and-slash combat partnered with a talking sword companion. Reviewers highlight that the combat feels tight and responsive while noting the backtracking is casual and engaging. The game achieves a 95% positive rating from over 9,200 Steam reviews. Players describe the experience as emotional and funny, with the story being emotionally resonant and the companion being charming. The title is verified to run on Steam Deck.
About Dust: An Elysian Tail: Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.
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Breaking Gates
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Top pick for Dust: An Elysian Tail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Intense 2D action with special attacks, aerial combos, and customizable combat in a vibrant, hand-drawn world. Upgrade your skills, forge new items, discover secret paths, and face challenging enemies on a journey to save the kingdom!
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dust: An Elysian Tail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Abyss Odyssey
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Third-strongest match for Dust: An Elysian Tail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
The Vagrant
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dust: An Elysian Tail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
Timespinner
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Shares backtracking and an epic mood with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Ranked #5 for Dust: An Elysian Tail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Absolum
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Shares an epic mood with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Ranked #6 for Dust: An Elysian Tail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.
Bladed fury
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Ranked #7 for Dust: An Elysian Tail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
An action game set in the Ancient China, bringing players addictive experiences with its unique Chinese traditional art-style and sound design.
Minoria
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Ranked #8 for Dust: An Elysian Tail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.
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Cave Story+
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Reviewers of Dust: An Elysian Tail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
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Reviewers of Dust: An Elysian Tail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade
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Shares an epic mood with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Reviewers of Dust: An Elysian Tail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Defeat malevolent forces in this stunning Japanese-inspired roguelite world! Become a master of the Demon Blades and combat swarms of demons in a fantasy realm set in the Edo period. Through every journey, you will unveil the hidden truths concealed within troubled times.
Outland
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Reviewers of Dust: An Elysian Tail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Outland is a fast-paced, dynamic platformer where the player uses powers of light and dark in an epic journey to save the world from forces of chaos.
Shadow Complex Remastered
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Reviewers of Dust: An Elysian Tail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.
Aquaria
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Shares backtracking with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Reviewers of Dust: An Elysian Tail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Aquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater adventurer, as she travels from hidden caves shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases in search of her past.
Ori and the Blind Forest
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Shares an epic mood with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Reviewers of Dust: An Elysian Tail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
“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 Dust: An Elysian Tail at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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
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Priced ~67% under Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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 Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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 Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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 Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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
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Priced ~58% under Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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
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Priced ~47% under Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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
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Priced ~67% under Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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 and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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. Shares Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
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.
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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.
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
The Vagrant
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking and an epic mood with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Minoria
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.
Frequently asked about Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Is Dust: An Elysian Tail verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dust: An Elysian Tail 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 Dust: An Elysian Tail cost?
- Dust: An Elysian Tail is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dust: An Elysian Tail?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dust: An Elysian Tail are Breaking Gates, Guacamelee! Gold Edition, Abyss Odyssey.
- Who developed Dust: An Elysian Tail?
- Dust: An Elysian Tail was developed by Humble Hearts LLC and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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