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Games like Cyclopean: The Great Abyss

If Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is your kind of game, the closest matches are Delving The Depths, Tower Song and Sonucido: The Mage - A Dungeon Crawler by Daniel da Silva — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging but fair combat, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss: Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

2025IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Schmidt Workshops
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Steam players who put hours into Cyclopean: The Great Abyss 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. Delving The Depths

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Escape imprisonment by delving into the caverns below your cell and exploring until your group reaches the surface in this first-person grid-based dungeon crawler.

    2027RPGSteam ↗
  2. Tower Song

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat, character progression and atmospheric with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Second-strongest match for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Tower Song is a challenging turn-based RPG that rewards clever planning and decisive tactics in unrepeatable battles. Eldritch tower-borne beasts threaten to breach reality and overrun the capital of Qadam. Lead your chosen Mana Knight in this tightly plotted quest to push back the darkness.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Sonucido: The Mage - A Dungeon Crawler by Daniel da Silva

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Sonucido: The Mage is a grid-based, turn-based Dungeon Crawler RPG. Find the mage in the depths of Sonucido!

    2022IndieRPG7.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Wizardry: The Five Ordeals

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Ranked #4 for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Welcome to the world of dungeon crawling! The classic dungeon crawler released back in 2006, returns to Steam with improved UI and more.

    2023IndieRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown is a classic western RPG inspired by the games from the 90s. Basically, it’s the kind of game I personally find missing nowadays. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous and without the need of endless grind to progress.

    2019RPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Ranked #6 for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.

    2023RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. THYSIASTERY

    WHY THIS

    Shares dungeon crawling, roguelike progression and atmospheric with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Ranked #7 for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    THYSIASTERY is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay. Command a party of bearers of the Brand, drawn into a vast Labyrinth. Recruit while exploring the Labyrinth in hope of finding a way out, and its secrets will be revealed as you delve deeper.

    2026IndieRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Darkest Dungeon® II

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...

    2023StrategyIndieRPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Cyclopean: The Great Abyss

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Star Explorers

    WHY THIS

    Shares dungeon crawling, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Reviewers of Cyclopean: The Great Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Avernum 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares character customization, turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Reviewers of Cyclopean: The Great Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Avernum 4 is the first chapter in the Great Trials Trilogy, three games that tell the tale of your land’s struggles in the face of powerful forces that seek to destroy it.

    2012IndieRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis

    WHY THIS

    Shares character customization with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Reviewers of Cyclopean: The Great Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis is a free-to-play action MMO. Join players around the world to explore the planet Halpha and fight in epic battles as ARKS Defenders! Unleash your imagination with our ultimate character creation experience and creative spaces to create your own phantasy.

    2020ActionMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeSteam ↗
  4. Ultimaze

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Cyclopean: The Great Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Ultimaze is a tile-based puzzle game about navigating small labyrinths.

    2022StrategyAdventureCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Islands of the Caliph

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Reviewers of Cyclopean: The Great Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Arcis Ultima

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Cyclopean: The Great Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Player finds himself in the war between human race and the invading creatures. You must train yourself, get the very best equipment, recall your past and help human efforts. Otherwise; as the time passes, you may find yourself in a hopeless situation.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cyclopean: The Great Abyss at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 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 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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 ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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 ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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 ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    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 ↗

More from Schmidt Workshops

Other recommendable Steam games by Schmidt Workshops, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Islands of the Caliph

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Star Explorers

    WHY THIS

    Shares dungeon crawling, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Anomalies

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Are you looking for something completely different? An oddity? An enigma? Or perhaps .. an Anomaly? Anomalies may be a game, then again it may not. One user described it as "A million musical leeches, waiting to suck the serotonin from my brain." And that's just the beginning...

    2016IndieSimulationCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Rocket Blasters

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Rocket Blasters is a fast paced, action packed shoot-em-up set during the invasion of the Dread Pizza Armada. Its hand-drawn art gives it a unique style. Blowing stuff up has never been so fun!

    2017ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Paradox Vector

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.

    2020ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Aberration Analyst

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Shares Indie with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Work strange hours ... analyze incomplete and unreliable information ... save the world from monsters, and shut down their means of access in this experimental, point-and-click supernatural strategy simulator.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Tower Song

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat, character progression and atmospheric with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Tower Song is a challenging turn-based RPG that rewards clever planning and decisive tactics in unrepeatable battles. Eldritch tower-borne beasts threaten to breach reality and overrun the capital of Qadam. Lead your chosen Mana Knight in this tightly plotted quest to push back the darkness.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.

    2023RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. THYSIASTERY

    WHY THIS

    Shares dungeon crawling, roguelike progression and atmospheric with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    THYSIASTERY is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay. Command a party of bearers of the Brand, drawn into a vast Labyrinth. Recruit while exploring the Labyrinth in hope of finding a way out, and its secrets will be revealed as you delve deeper.

    2026IndieRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Darkest Dungeon® II

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

    Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...

    2023StrategyIndieRPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cyclopean: The Great Abyss

Does Cyclopean: The Great Abyss run on Steam Deck?
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Cyclopean: The Great Abyss cost?
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cyclopean: The Great Abyss?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cyclopean: The Great Abyss are Delving The Depths, Tower Song, Sonucido: The Mage - A Dungeon Crawler by Daniel da Silva.
Who developed Cyclopean: The Great Abyss?
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss was developed by Schmidt Workshops.

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 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.

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