Games like Grim Trials
If Grim Trials is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aksun, Malignant Survivors 2 and Hades II — 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 Grim Trials: Prove your worth. Hack and blast your way through the Grim Trials. Explore the (after)life of the Academy – a training ground for aspiring Grim Reapers. Befriend fellow Reapers, learn from your mentors, and uncover the secrets of your life and love before your death.
Players who liked Grim Trials also play
Steam players who put hours into Grim Trials 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.
Aksun
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Top pick for Grim Trials fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Grim Trials.
A hack & slash roguelite rooted in Korean shamanism. Descend to the dark shadows of Aksun, chain hundreds of elemental artifacts and abilities into devastating reactions, and break the cursed cycle.
Malignant Survivors 2
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Second-strongest match for Grim Trials fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim Trials.
Experience the most intense 3D crowd combat ever. Pick your hero. Gear up. Then face the horde. Grab loot, get stronger, stay alive. Maybe. Didn't work? Try another hero, another build. Find your own path to the Abyss.
Hades II
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Third-strongest match for Grim Trials fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Grim Trials.
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Young Souls
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Ranked #4 for Grim Trials fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim Trials.
Young Souls is a gorgeous 2D brawler meets story-rich action RPG. Fight hordes of belligerent goblins, level up with hundreds of weapons and accessories, explore, and journey between worlds, as rebellious twins battle their way to save their foster father.
Avencast: Rise of the Mage
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Ranked #5 for Grim Trials fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim Trials.
Play Avencast, the epic roguelike action-RPG with tons of combat moves, spells, and equipment. Fight against evil forces to save your academy and vanquish the darkness. As you progress, learn powerful spells and combos to increase your chances of victory.
Absolum
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Ranked #6 for Grim Trials fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim Trials.
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.
Grim Dawn
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Ranked #7 for Grim Trials fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim Trials.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
Death's Door
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Ranked #8 for Grim Trials fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim Trials.
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.
Free alternatives
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 Grim Trials.
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 with Grim Trials.
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 Adventure with Grim Trials.
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 Adventure with Grim Trials.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Grim Trials.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Grim Trials.
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.
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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.
Hades II
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Grim Trials.
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Young Souls
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim Trials.
Young Souls is a gorgeous 2D brawler meets story-rich action RPG. Fight hordes of belligerent goblins, level up with hundreds of weapons and accessories, explore, and journey between worlds, as rebellious twins battle their way to save their foster father.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim Trials.
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 Grim Trials
- What games are most similar to Grim Trials?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grim Trials are Aksun, Malignant Survivors 2, Hades II.
- Who developed Grim Trials?
- Grim Trials was developed by Glory Jam and published by Soft Source.
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 Grim Trials.
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