Games like Aris Arcanum
If Aris Arcanum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crimson Moon, Heaven Crawler and Sova — 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 Aris Arcanum: The grand library of Aris now befell into madness — its scholars, corrupted, bear wounds of Ink; a dark, sludge carrying a mind-altering disease. A unique magic-bound roguelite awaits, where a desperate scholar bends the Ink's occult power to spellcraft his path to redemption.
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Crimson Moon
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Top pick for Aris Arcanum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
A gothic action-adventure RPG of violent angels and dead gods.
Heaven Crawler
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Second-strongest match for Aris Arcanum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Explore The Womb, a forgotten man-made tower built to reach the heavens. Wield Mechanical Arms to overcome deadly enemies and carve your path upward on a deeply personal journey. And remember: Bring her back.
Sova
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Third-strongest match for Aris Arcanum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Descend into a surreal sci-fantasy world in this narrative-driven action roguelite, where every run reshapes your story. Sova’s expressive combat meets deeply branching dialogue and world-shifting decisions. Compose your violence, rewrite your past, and bend a crumbling realm to your will.
SUPER DEBT
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Ranked #4 for Aris Arcanum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Money is your life in SUPER DEBT! Fight to survive with an arsenal of wildly different weapons and upgrades. In this intense and challenging Twin-Stick Bullet-Hell Roguelike everything costs money, and we mean everything!
Verho - Curse of Faces
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Ranked #5 for Aris Arcanum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Verho, a Dark RPG following the tradition of the King’s Field series, takes place after the catastrophic Era of Solitude, where masks have become the only protection against the Curse of Faces. Travel to the land of Yariv, find the source of this scourge and face its dangers.
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
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Ranked #7 for Aris Arcanum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
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Ranked #8 for Aris Arcanum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Drova is an Action-RPG that marries the dark grim tones of its genre with the mysticism of Celtic mythology. Encounter a society where ancient restless spirits and divided factions battle for dominance. Uncover forgotten abilities and unravel the secrets of a past shrouded in mystery.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aris Arcanum at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Aris Arcanum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Aris Arcanum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Aris Arcanum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Aris Arcanum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Aris Arcanum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under Aris Arcanum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
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 ~80% under Aris Arcanum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
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 ~67% under Aris Arcanum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 with Aris Arcanum.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tukoni: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
It gets so lonely here
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Verho - Curse of Faces
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Verho, a Dark RPG following the tradition of the King’s Field series, takes place after the catastrophic Era of Solitude, where masks have become the only protection against the Curse of Faces. Travel to the land of Yariv, find the source of this scourge and face its dangers.
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Aris Arcanum.
Drova is an Action-RPG that marries the dark grim tones of its genre with the mysticism of Celtic mythology. Encounter a society where ancient restless spirits and divided factions battle for dominance. Uncover forgotten abilities and unravel the secrets of a past shrouded in mystery.
Frequently asked about Aris Arcanum
- Does Aris Arcanum run on Steam Deck?
- Aris Arcanum 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 Aris Arcanum cost?
- Aris Arcanum is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Aris Arcanum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aris Arcanum are Crimson Moon, Heaven Crawler, Sova.
- Who developed Aris Arcanum?
- Aris Arcanum was developed by Broken Cane and published by indie.io.
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