Games like Awakening
If Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are Soul's Spectrum, The Duduk Master and Ethereal Anchor: Rise of Yunus — 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 Awakening: You wake up in a mysterious dungeon, full of dangerous traps and unlucky inhabitants. Brain cracking puzzles await you while a dark story will slowly unfold in this supernatural place!
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Steam players who put hours into Awakening 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.
Soul's Spectrum
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Top pick for Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Awakening.
You wake up in a mysterious dungeon, full of dangerous traps and unlucky inhabitants. Brain cracking puzzles await you while a dark story will slowly unfold in this supernatural place!
The Duduk Master
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Second-strongest match for Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Awakening.
The Duduk Master, is a 2D platform game, with RPG elements that tells the story of a hero who was transformed into a monster, beside him are essential elemental skills to defeat his enemies and of course a powerful magic Duduk that can perform enchantments while playing some melodies.
Ethereal Anchor: Rise of Yunus
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Third-strongest match for Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Awakening.
Explore a hand-crafted 2D pixel-art Action RPG. Master powerful skills, battle twisted creatures, uncover ancient secrets, and journey through a world torn between eternal summer and endless winter as the young mage Yunus faces his final trial.
Shogunaria
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Ranked #4 for Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Awakening.
Shogunaria is an action-adventure RPG that takes elements from old school classics like Zelda, YS, Neutopia, Golden Axe Warrior, and Diablo. Select one of the 4 characters and take on a series of dungeons filled with traps and enemies!
Vampira
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Ranked #5 for Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Awakening.
Awaken from a centuries-long slumber, stripped of your memories, in this immersive first-person 3D Metroidvania. Forge your path from the depths of a mysterious castle, feast on the blood of your enemies to reclaim your lost Vampire abilities, and unravel the dark secrets of your own past.
Shadow Strings
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Ranked #6 for Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Awakening.
A 2.5D story-driven RPG blending turn-based timeline combat, rhythm-based actions, and Metroidvania-style exploration. As Emilia descends into the Underworld, she must confront gods, shadows, and the trauma that binds her — and fight to save the one she loves.
Palm Sugar: A Village Story
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Ranked #7 for Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Awakening.
Ah, young love! Seenu, our awkward hero, courts his sweetheart in the quaint village of Bellampakam. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows! The village suffocates under a ruthless drug cartel. Step into Palm Sugar, where romance may steal the spotlight, but the shadows tell the real story.
Blackfield
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Ranked #8 for Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Awakening.
In a shadowed parallel universe, 8-year-old Marta navigates desolate landscapes ruled by mechanical overlords and nightmarish creatures, desperately seeking her lost family while survival becomes a relentless test of wits and willpower.
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Frequently asked about Awakening
- Is Awakening verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Awakening is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- Is Awakening free to play?
- Yes — Awakening is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Awakening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Awakening are Soul's Spectrum, The Duduk Master, Ethereal Anchor: Rise of Yunus.
- Who developed Awakening?
- Awakening was developed by Thund Games.
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 Awakening.
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