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Games like Anima Keeper

If Anima Keeper is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic and DreadBound — 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 Anima Keeper: Time is always running out in Anima Keeper. Your main goal is to survive before the collapse comes. Marauders, mystical creatures, mutated monsters with deformed souls - they all want you dead. Do whatever it takes to gather treasures and hide in a shelter before the final wave of collapse.

ActionIndieAdventureRPGWindowsby Reveal Team
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Players who liked Anima Keeper also play

Steam players who put hours into Anima Keeper 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. The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Anima Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Anima Keeper.

    A first-person action game, inspired by Dark Messiah, that provides various ways for defeating your foes, with weaponry, sorcery, stealth, or clever tactics like kicking them into deadly spikes.

    2026ActionRPG8.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Anima Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Anima Keeper.

    Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.

    2006ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. DreadBound

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Anima Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Anima Keeper.

    DreadBound is an atmospheric action roguelike with immersive sim elements. Steal your soul back from a cursed city, hide on roofs, eat bugs, make deals with demons, throw vases at your enemies.

    ActionRPGSteam ↗
  4. Legendary Tales

    WHY THIS

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

    Legendary tales is a VR Action roleplaying game with up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, enhance your abilities and fight your way through an ever changing dungeon to make your own Legendary Tales.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Runehaven

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Anima Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Anima Keeper.

    Runehaven is an atmospheric roguelike dungeon crawler with an immersive magic system where you craft your own spells. Explore a mysterious procedurally generated world.

    2026ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Hellsplit: Arena

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Anima Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Anima Keeper.

    VR horror-slasher with physically correct combat system and dynamic battles across arenas in the dark fantasy world.

    2019ActionRPG24.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Thief: Deadly Shadows

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Anima Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anima Keeper.

    You are Garrett, the master thief. Rarely seen and never caught, Garrett is the best that ever was. Able to sneak past any guard, pick any lock, and break into the most ingeniously secured residences. Garrett steals from the wealthy and gives to himself, making his living in the dark and foreboding City.

    2007Action8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Weird West: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

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

    Survive and unveil the mysteries of the Weird West through the intertwined destinies of its unusual heroes in an Action RPG from the co-creators of Dishonored and Prey.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Anima Keeper.

    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 ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Anima Keeper.

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Anima Keeper

What games are most similar to Anima Keeper?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anima Keeper are The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, DreadBound.
Who developed Anima Keeper?
Anima Keeper was developed by Reveal Team.

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 Anima Keeper.

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