Games like Axial Rift
If Axial Rift is your kind of game, the closest matches are OOLO, The Dreamthief and Mirror's Edge™ — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Axial Rift: Slice the voxel world in any direction to shift instantly from isometric exploration to side‑scrolling action, unlocking new ways to solve puzzles, discover secrets, platform with precision, and outsmart bosses.
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OOLO
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Top pick for Axial Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Axial Rift.
OOLO is a modern take on the classic isometric adventure. Embark on a non-linear journey across mysterious forests, haunted catacombs, and magical factories. Solve puzzles to collect keys and discover upgrades that change the way you explore this lush fantasy world.
The Dreamthief
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Second-strongest match for Axial Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
Bjørn watches a mysterious figure steal his parents’ dreams and follows it into a world consumed by nightmares. Explore, fight, solve puzzles, and open rifts between dream and nightmare in a Ghibli-inspired isometric action-adventure about facing childhood fears.
Mirror's Edge™
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Third-strongest match for Axial Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Axial Rift.
In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.
Youropa
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Ranked #4 for Axial Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.
Death's Door
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Ranked #5 for Axial Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
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.
Lemma
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Ranked #6 for Axial Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
Immersive first-person parkour in a surreal, physics-driven voxel world. Every move can modify the environment. Surfaces pop in and out of existence at will.
Neon Chrome
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Ranked #7 for Axial Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
Kill to Collect
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Ranked #8 for Axial Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Axial Rift.
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.
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 Axial Rift.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Axial Rift.
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 Axial Rift.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Axial Rift.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
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]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
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.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
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.
Kill to Collect
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Axial Rift.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
Frequently asked about Axial Rift
- What games are most similar to Axial Rift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Axial Rift are OOLO, The Dreamthief, Mirror's Edge™.
- Who developed Axial Rift?
- Axial Rift was developed by Matt Edzenga and published by Edzenga Labs LLC.
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 Axial Rift.
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