Games like Butterfly Dream
If Butterfly Dream is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nine Treasures of Liuyin, Blade of Darkness and Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter — 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 Butterfly Dream: Butterfly Dream is a compact retro-style Souls-like game. While returning to classic boxed-level exploration and combat, it weaves in the Daoist parable of Zhuang Zhou’s butterfly dream and elements from the Buddhist Diamond Sūtra.
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Steam players who put hours into Butterfly Dream 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.
Nine Treasures of Liuyin
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Top pick for Butterfly Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly Dream.
This is a dark, soul like role-playing game, trying to create a different experience in this genre. The protagonist fights against a powerful enemy in this city in search of a divine artifact.
Blade of Darkness
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Second-strongest match for Butterfly Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Butterfly Dream.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter
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Third-strongest match for Butterfly Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly Dream.
Embark upon a vast, snow-ravaged kingdom in Tails of Iron 2, sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG. As Arlo, heir to the Warden of the Wastes, adventure through harsh northern lands, home to giant beasts and ragtag bandits, in an epic quest to overcome an ancient, blood-starved evil.
Lords of the Fallen
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Ranked #4 for Butterfly Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Butterfly Dream.
A vast world awaits in the medieval, dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. As a fabled Dark Crusader, embark on an epic quest to overthrow Adyr, the demon God. The final major update Version 2.5 is out now: features deadlier boss battles and all-new Veteran Mode.
SiNiSistar 2
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Ranked #5 for Butterfly Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly Dream.
Step into a beautifully somber pixel art world of decay filled with grotesque, writhing abominations...A dark action RPG that follows the journey of a demon-slaying nun who must resist destruction and despair while purging the corruption from this world one boss after another!
AI LIMIT
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Ranked #6 for Butterfly Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly Dream.
In the distant future when civilization is on the verge of extinction, people follow the legend of the Elysium in the last city, Havenswell. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland sci-fi ARPG, you will play as Arrisa, a Blader with immortality, and explore the city ruin to find the hope of a new life.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
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Ranked #7 for Butterfly Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Butterfly Dream.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
Black Myth: Wukong
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Ranked #8 for Butterfly Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Butterfly Dream.
Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Butterfly Dream at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Butterfly Dream on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly Dream.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Butterfly Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butterfly Dream.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Butterfly Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butterfly Dream.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Butterfly Dream on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Butterfly Dream.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Butterfly Dream on Steam right now. Shares Action with Butterfly Dream.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Butterfly Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Butterfly Dream.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under Butterfly Dream on Steam right now. Shares Action with Butterfly Dream.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Butterfly Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butterfly Dream.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butterfly Dream.
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 Butterfly Dream.
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 Butterfly Dream.
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 Butterfly Dream.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Butterfly Dream.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Butterfly Dream.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butterfly Dream.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Butterfly Dream.
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 Butterfly Dream
- How much does Butterfly Dream cost?
- Butterfly Dream is listed on Steam at 4.94 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Butterfly Dream?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Butterfly Dream are Nine Treasures of Liuyin, Blade of Darkness, Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter.
- Who developed Butterfly Dream?
- Butterfly Dream was developed by LiberFish.
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 Butterfly Dream.
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