Games like The Waste Land
If The Waste Land is your kind of game, the closest matches are Super Dangerous Dungeons, Cave Story+ and Terrian Saga: KR-17 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and mysterious. 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 The Waste Land: The Waste Land, a "metroidvania" style side-scroller inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem of the same name, puts players in the role of a fallen king who must find his way to right the wrongs caused by his own failings.
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Steam players who put hours into The Waste Land 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.
Super Dangerous Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Waste Land.
Top pick for The Waste Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Guide Timmy the treasure hunter through dangerous dungeons in search of the legendary treasure!
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Waste Land.
Second-strongest match for The Waste Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Terrian Saga: KR-17
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Waste Land.
Third-strongest match for The Waste Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
KR-17 is a 32-bit, story-driven, side-scrolling action puzzle-platformer which follows the story of a military robot on a mission to subdue a rogue agent operating out of an installation on the planet Valiant. It will be the first in a multi-genre series of games centered around the story of Terrius, KR-17's home.
Castle In The Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a bleak mood with The Waste Land.
Ranked #4 for The Waste Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Aggelos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Waste Land.
Ranked #5 for The Waste Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
Battle Princess Madelyn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Waste Land.
Ranked #6 for The Waste Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Battle Princess Madelyn is a game that follows the journey of a young knight in training, Madelyn, and her ghostly pet dog, Fritzy. Join them as they set out on a journey to save her kingdom and her family from the clutches of an evil wizard!
Odallus: The Dark Call
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Waste Land.
Ranked #7 for The Waste Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Waste Land.
Ranked #8 for The Waste Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Waste Land at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Waste Land on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Waste Land.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Waste Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Waste Land on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Waste Land.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Waste Land on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Waste Land.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Waste Land on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Waste Land.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Waste Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Waste Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Waste Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Waste Land.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Waste Land.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Waste Land.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Waste Land.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about The Waste Land
- How much does The Waste Land cost?
- The Waste Land is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Waste Land?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Waste Land are Super Dangerous Dungeons, Cave Story+, Terrian Saga: KR-17.
- Who developed The Waste Land?
- The Waste Land was developed by Fledermaus and published by Digital Tribe.
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