Games like Willow Guard
If Willow Guard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fire in the Beastlands, Book of Demons and 9th Dawn Remake — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and cozy. 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 Willow Guard: You are Ghweros, a Willowguard and warden of a world abandoned by Gods. In the quiet village of Woikos, something ancient stirs. Track the truth behind a trail of monster attacks. Fight with skill and strategy, shape your path through choices, and uncover secrets long buried beneath root and bone.
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Fire in the Beastlands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Top pick for Willow Guard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
Explore the danger and mystery of a fallen land, whose hidden wonders are shrouded and marred by the stranglehold of wickedness. In "Fire in the Beastlands," you are thrust into a world beyond the brink, blamed for its waywardness, and confronted with the choice between revenge and redemption.
Book of Demons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Second-strongest match for Willow Guard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself!
9th Dawn Remake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Third-strongest match for Willow Guard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Willow Guard.
Rediscover the magic of the 9th Dawn series with this complete re-imagining of the original game. Venture into a massive 2.5D open world. Explore 45 new dungeons in single-player or online/local co-op, craft weapons, raise pets, play a deck-building card game, and take down the Castle of Maltyr!
Eldest Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Willow Guard.
Ranked #4 for Willow Guard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Willow Guard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Hand of Fate 2
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Ranked #6 for Willow Guard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
A new hero rises to challenge the Dealer in Hand of Fate 2! Master a living boardgame of infinitely replayable quests - unlock new cards, build your adventure, then defeat your foes in brutal real-time combat! Draw your cards, play your hand and discover your fate!
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Ranked #7 for Willow Guard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
The Slormancer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Ranked #8 for Willow Guard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
Fight hordes of enemies led by The Slormancer, an evil warlock from the past, in an absurd yet epic Action RPG! Experience fast-paced gameplay, loads of shiny loot, tons of collectibles, countless hours of content, and carefully crafted pixel art.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Reviewers of Willow Guard cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Willow Guard.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Roadwarden
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Reviewers of Willow Guard cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Willow Guard.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Willow Guard.
Reviewers of Willow Guard cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
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!
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath and an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Reviewers of Willow Guard cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Willow Guard.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Willow Guard at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Willow Guard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Willow Guard.
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
Shares an immersive mood with Willow Guard.
Priced ~69% under Willow Guard on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
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 ~56% under Willow Guard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Willow Guard.
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 ~50% under Willow Guard on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
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 ~72% under Willow Guard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Willow Guard.
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 ~61% under Willow Guard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Willow Guard.
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 ~50% under Willow Guard on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Willow Guard.
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 ~69% under Willow Guard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Willow Guard.
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.
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 Willow Guard.
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.
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 Willow Guard.
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.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Willow Guard.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Willow Guard.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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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.
Eldest Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Willow Guard.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Hand of Fate 2
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
A new hero rises to challenge the Dealer in Hand of Fate 2! Master a living boardgame of infinitely replayable quests - unlock new cards, build your adventure, then defeat your foes in brutal real-time combat! Draw your cards, play your hand and discover your fate!
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Willow Guard.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Willow Guard.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Frequently asked about Willow Guard
- How much does Willow Guard cost?
- Willow Guard is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Willow Guard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Willow Guard are Fire in the Beastlands, Book of Demons, 9th Dawn Remake.
- Who developed Willow Guard?
- Willow Guard was developed by MiTale.
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 Willow Guard.
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