Games like A Tale of Sand and Bone
If A Tale of Sand and Bone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quetzal, Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact and Water Maid — 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 A Tale of Sand and Bone: A Tale of sand and Bone is a story-rich action-roguelike adventure. You play as Shai, a fallen warrior bound to a vengeful spirit as you climb and fight your way to claiming vengeance against the gods.
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Quetzal
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Top pick for A Tale of Sand and Bone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Control a Mesoamerican god who must escape the underworld in this challenging 2D pixel art platformer, dodging dangers to recover the sacred bones of humanity.
Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact
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Second-strongest match for A Tale of Sand and Bone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Ready for an adventure? A RPG inspired handcrafted story-driven action-adventure platformer! Control a fellowship of 3 heroes as they travel to Mount Trumnor! Discover a magical world, fight your enemies, upgrade your heroes, find treasures, meet locals and be part of an epic quest to save Maeldor!
Water Maid
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Third-strongest match for A Tale of Sand and Bone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Water Maid is all about fetching water. Run, jump and dash to avoid enemies and find the elusive fresh water springs scattered around the island. Fill up your pot and make it back to the village, safe and sound.
Unstable Cylinder
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Ranked #4 for A Tale of Sand and Bone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
This is a platformer action adventure in which the main character, trapped inside a long cylinder prison, attempts to escape. Escape by climbing over steep walls, a turbulent world, moving scaffolding, and other obstacles! Of course, it would be infinitely close to impossible.
Spiretela
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Ranked #5 for A Tale of Sand and Bone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Climb the tower, defeat powerful enemies, and uncover the cause of a cosmic instability in this intense roguelike adventure.
HellPunk: Purgatorium
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Ranked #6 for A Tale of Sand and Bone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
HellPunk: Purgatorium is a roguelite that combines stylish action with inventory management. Equip gears, manage your grid, and conquer the tower.
Vínculo
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Ranked #7 for A Tale of Sand and Bone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Embark yourself on an adventure through the Marble Palace and uncover the plentiful secrets it hides! Explore magnificent views and fight through the hostile halls of the palace, all while making use of the innovative plane change mechanics!
Runner Overdrive
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Ranked #8 for A Tale of Sand and Bone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Something tore your world apart. Now it's on you to keep it running, one delivery at a time. Blast your way through this action-packed precision platformer, make weird friends and even weirder enemies, and uncover the truth behind why everything went to ash.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
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.
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 A Tale of Sand and Bone.
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 and Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
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 Indie and Adventure with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Indie with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
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.
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Frequently asked about A Tale of Sand and Bone
- What games are most similar to A Tale of Sand and Bone?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Tale of Sand and Bone are Quetzal, Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact, Water Maid.
- Who developed A Tale of Sand and Bone?
- A Tale of Sand and Bone was developed by Talico.
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 A Tale of Sand and Bone.
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