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Games like Iz

If Iz is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tails of Glimmervale, DarkShine and Hazard School : Bully Fight — 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.

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About Iz: A top-down pixel RPG where you don’t fight — you play music. Calm demons, uncover secrets, and journey through a myth-filled world inspired by Turkic folklore

ActionIndieAdventureRPGWindowsby Umai Gaming
Iz — Steam game cover

Players who liked Iz also play

Steam players who put hours into Iz 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.

  1. Tails of Glimmervale

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Iz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iz.

    Welcome to Glimmervale! Meet cute yet fierce animal characters, fight greedy bandits, and discover the secrets of a dark past in this cozy souls-like adventure.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. DarkShine

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Iz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Iz.

    DarkShine is an open-world game with a classic graphical style, where you as a former soldier have to save the inhabitants of your village from the white queen and her army, going a long way from nobody to the savior of the world.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG3.00 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hazard School : Bully Fight

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Iz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iz.

    In the Blue Sky Academy school, where chaos reigns among the students, they will be involved in sometimes ironic and sometimes conflictive situations in order to achieve their goal, to gain total control of this chaotic school.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Legend of Yan Loong 1+2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Iz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iz.

    A nostalgic collections of the chapter 1 and 2 of “Yan Loong Legend” series. Pick up your sword again, transform into Yan Loong, Zhi Loong or Shui Yan with your friends to have a battle of light and darkness with the final boss Bai Loong and regain the occupied Green Hill Lake.

    2023ActionIndieRPG12.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. 罪印 Seal of sins

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Iz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iz.

    In a world with a strong ancient and wild atmosphere, you will experience many hardships, compose tragic epics in tense and exciting battles, integrate puzzle-solving elements, and face the dual challenges of strategy and operation!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie1.40 USDSteam ↗
  6. Youra The Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Iz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iz.

    "Youra" unfolds as a captivating tale of destiny, elemental powers, and the eternal struggle between light and darkness. When Youra and Ichika discover a mysterious key, their lives take an unexpected turn as dark forces descend upon them.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Weggye's Adventures

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Iz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Iz.

    Weggye's Adventures is a 2D platformer game. Which focuses on skill. The player explores a magical world full of challenges with Weggye.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Desolate City: Last Show

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Iz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iz.

    It's the last concert of his tour, and Don Aitor will have to survive the horror. Discover the consequences of the strange virus threatening the pixelated city of Gray Bay in this survival horror/action RPG.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Iz.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Iz.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Iz.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Iz.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Iz.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Iz.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Iz.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Iz.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Iz

What games are most similar to Iz?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Iz are Tails of Glimmervale, DarkShine, Hazard School : Bully Fight.
Who developed Iz?
Iz was developed by Umai Gaming.

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 Iz.

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