Games like A Tale of Sand and Bone
If A Tale of Sand and Bone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact, Unstable Cylinder and HellPunk: Purgatorium — 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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Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact
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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.
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!
Unstable Cylinder
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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.
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.
HellPunk: Purgatorium
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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.
HellPunk: Purgatorium is a roguelite that combines stylish action with inventory management. Equip gears, manage your grid, and conquer the tower.
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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.
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!
Reaper of Immortals
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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.
Reaper of Immortals is a pixel-art adventure game, that tells the story of a lost reaper who is seeking his true purpose. Fight your way through countless enemies, reap everything that stands in your way, and find out the ultimate truth.
Dimension Shifter
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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.
Dimension Shifter is an action adventure platform game. As you explore a magical and challenging world while following a gripping story, you can engage in a relentless collision with the inhabitants of this world.
Dark Scrolls
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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.
Dark Scrolls is a fantasy-themed action platformer that fuses shmup-style chaos with roguelite progression and is packed with charm, challenge, and secrets.
LUCID
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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 Adventure with A Tale of Sand and Bone.
Discover your own legend in LUCID. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and enhance combat against a diverse cast of enemies and bosses, all in gorgeous pixel art inspired by the golden age of 2D sidescrollers.
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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.
NGU IDLE
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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.
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!
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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 Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact, Unstable Cylinder, HellPunk: Purgatorium.
- 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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