Games like ARC: Antic Runes Combat
If ARC: Antic Runes Combat is your kind of game, the closest matches are F.R.E.D.'s Ascent, Glimmer Chain and Runner Roy — 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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F.R.E.D.'s Ascent
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Top pick for ARC: Antic Runes Combat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
A 2.5D rage platformer. Nine zones, each with its own physics — ice, wind, sticky floors, low gravity. You are F.R.E.D., a small machine kept asleep beneath a world that never wanted you to wake. Climb anyway. Wanderer, No-Save, and Speedrun modes.
Glimmer Chain
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Second-strongest match for ARC: Antic Runes Combat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Use the chain to swing and propel yourself through the buildings. Execute fluid and epic moves to light up the city in the shortest possible time!
Runner Roy
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Third-strongest match for ARC: Antic Runes Combat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Runner Roy is a sidescroller platformer where you have to count both on your skills and luck to overcome (and survive!) as many machines and obstacles along the way as you can.
SnowKnight: Super Strength, Big Head, Twin Tails
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Ranked #4 for ARC: Antic Runes Combat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
A 2D side-scrolling beat'em up with story, puzzles and sarcasm. A quirky strong loli wakes in snow, wields a broken hammer, battles thugs, zombies, mutants and talking creatures, smashing her way through the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Neon Shard
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Ranked #5 for ARC: Antic Runes Combat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Neon Shard is a 2D Platformer game featuring challenging time limited levels. Jump and stomp! Break the shards to gather resources that will help you to upgrade your factory and your character to face harder challanges.
GrassChopper
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Ranked #6 for ARC: Antic Runes Combat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Swing your scythe, earn coins, and spend them on a variety of upgrades to cut deeper into the overgrowth. An incremental action game about pushing further than anyone has gone before
Blockpocalypse
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Ranked #7 for ARC: Antic Runes Combat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Blockpocalypse is the shared screen multiplayer party platformer about surviving with your friends... or at least outliving them.
Witcheye
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Ranked #8 for ARC: Antic Runes Combat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Set off on an adventure as a mild-mannered witch who transforms into a flying eyeball of vengeance after a smarmy knight and wizard steal her spell ingredients.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ARC: Antic Runes Combat at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under ARC: Antic Runes Combat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
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 ~50% under ARC: Antic Runes Combat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under ARC: Antic Runes Combat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under ARC: Antic Runes Combat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under ARC: Antic Runes Combat on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under ARC: Antic Runes Combat on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under ARC: Antic Runes Combat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under ARC: Antic Runes Combat on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Hidden Pinball
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Another title from ima shouganai, the studio behind ARC: Antic Runes Combat. Shares Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
The secret game for your desktop. Enjoy over 100 themed tables, over 50 daily special events and real-time challenges. Beat the records at all the tables and earn your crowns, badges and increase your prestige. Configure it to play the way you want, even in full screen. Improve yourself.
Magical Frontline
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Another title from ima shouganai, the studio behind ARC: Antic Runes Combat. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.
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Frequently asked about ARC: Antic Runes Combat
- How much does ARC: Antic Runes Combat cost?
- ARC: Antic Runes Combat is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ARC: Antic Runes Combat?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ARC: Antic Runes Combat are F.R.E.D.'s Ascent, Glimmer Chain, Runner Roy.
- Who developed ARC: Antic Runes Combat?
- ARC: Antic Runes Combat was developed by ima shouganai.
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