Games like Valdis Story: Abyssal City
If Valdis Story: Abyssal City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fortune Summoners, Chasm and Indivisible — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its combo combat feels great, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →Valdis Story: Abyssal City is a 2013 action RPG indie title set within the ruins of a holy city lost many years ago, where players assume the role of Wyatt battling demons, angels, and creatures called Ferals using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery. The game features combo combat with skill cancelling and skill expression, boss grading, build variety, and character switching that enables multiple viable builds per character. Reviewers highlight that combo combat feels great and skill cancelling enables fluid combat, with high replayability driven by character stories. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, challenging, immersive, and intense, with an area-specific soundtrack enhancing immersion. The game runs verified on Steam Deck, carries a 14.99 USD price point, and holds an 82 percent positive rating from over 1600 Steam reviews.
About Valdis Story: Abyssal City: 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.
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Fortune Summoners
WHY THIS
Shares character switching and a challenging mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Top pick for Valdis Story: Abyssal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
A massive gameworld to explore with nearly a dozen dungeons to delve into.
Chasm
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Second-strongest match for Valdis Story: Abyssal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Indivisible
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Third-strongest match for Valdis Story: Abyssal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Indivisible is a hand drawn action RPG platformer from Lab Zero, creators of the critically acclaimed Skullgirls! Set in a huge fantasy world, Indivisible tells the story of Ajna, a fearless girl with a rebellious streak who sets out on a quest to save everything she knows from being destroyed.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Ranked #4 for Valdis Story: Abyssal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
UnEpic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Ranked #5 for Valdis Story: Abyssal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.
Ys Origin
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Ranked #6 for Valdis Story: Abyssal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
The perfect mix of action, exploration and story with screen-filling bosses, unique platforming elements, and innovative puzzles.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Ranked #7 for Valdis Story: Abyssal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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.
Vigil: The Longest Night
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Ranked #8 for Valdis Story: Abyssal City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Embark on a journey through the longest night with Leila, a valiant member of the Vigilant Order. Delve into the hidden truths shrouded in eternal darkness, unravel the mystery surrounding Leila's enigmatic sister, and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in a world that has lost the light of day.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Valdis Story: Abyssal City at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam right now. Shares Action with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam right now. Shares Action with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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.
Chasm
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Indivisible
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Indivisible is a hand drawn action RPG platformer from Lab Zero, creators of the critically acclaimed Skullgirls! Set in a huge fantasy world, Indivisible tells the story of Ajna, a fearless girl with a rebellious streak who sets out on a quest to save everything she knows from being destroyed.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
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.
Vigil: The Longest Night
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Valdis Story: Abyssal City.
Embark on a journey through the longest night with Leila, a valiant member of the Vigilant Order. Delve into the hidden truths shrouded in eternal darkness, unravel the mystery surrounding Leila's enigmatic sister, and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in a world that has lost the light of day.
Frequently asked about Valdis Story: Abyssal City
- Is Valdis Story: Abyssal City verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Valdis Story: Abyssal City 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 Valdis Story: Abyssal City cost?
- Valdis Story: Abyssal City is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Valdis Story: Abyssal City?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Valdis Story: Abyssal City are Fortune Summoners, Chasm, Indivisible.
- Who developed Valdis Story: Abyssal City?
- Valdis Story: Abyssal City was developed by Endlessfluff Games.
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