Steam Deck games like Rain World
Below are 16 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Rain World (15 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
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Hollow Knight
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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ANIMAL WELL
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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Noita
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
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.
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Celeste
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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Nine Sols
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
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Dead Cells
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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TUNIC
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Rain World.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Axiom Verge
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Caves of Qud
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rain World.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Outer Wilds
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Rain World.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
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Dwarf Fortress
Deck Playable alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Rain World.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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MO:Astray
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
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Dap
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Dap is a horror-action-adventure about gathering and protecting a pack of fragile creatures called Daps. Lead your Daps to safety through an eerily beautiful world, fighting off threats, solving puzzles, and avoiding the infection that twists your companions into something alien and terrifying…
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Lorn's Lure
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
An android is led through a vast structure by a glitch in his visual system. Lorn's Lure is an atmospheric narrative first-person platformer with novel climb-anything mechanics and modernized retro 3D graphics.
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Subnautica
Deck Verified alternative to Rain World — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rain World.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.