Games like The Keep
If The Keep is your kind of game, the closest matches are Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Of Dragon Knight and Vaporum: Lockdown — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Keep: Explore the subterranean depths in this first-person dungeon crawler with real-time combat, a unique rune magic system, exploration, and puzzle solving. This game will awaken memories of what made old-school dungeons so much fun to play while you fight, hunt for hidden treasures, and avoid deadly traps.
Players who liked The Keep also play
Steam players who put hours into The Keep 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.
Legend of Grimrock
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Top pick for The Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.
Dungeon Of Dragon Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Second-strongest match for The Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
Dungeon of Dragon Knight is a retro dungeon crawler RPG in modern visual design. Pointed by a mysterious witch, your party will descend into a dungeon with traps and monsters in search of the evil Dragon Knight and his treasure weapon. Or, are you fooled by the witch?
Vaporum: Lockdown
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Third-strongest match for The Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
Vaporum: Lockdown, a prequel to Vaporum, is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Follow the story of Ellie Teller, a scientist struggling to survive disastrous events that happened in the tower of Arx Vaporum.
Heroes of the Monkey Tavern
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
Heroes of the Monkey Tavern is a first-person dungeon-crawling game designed as an introduction to the genre : simplified rules, balanced puzzles and challenges. An independent project developed solo.
Vaporum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Ranked #5 for The Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
Vaporum is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Stranded in the middle of an ocean, in front of a gigantic tower, the hero has to find out what the place is, what happened there, and most importantly, who he is.
Realms and Ruins: Abencor
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Keep.
Realms & Ruins: Abencor is a first-person, grid-based, open world, retro, pixel art dungeon crawler harkening back to the days of yore. Realms & Ruins takes inspiration from games like Wizardry and Might & Magic and other cRPG's of the 90's.
Legend of Grimrock 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Ranked #7 for The Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
Legend of Grimrock 2 is a dungeon crawling role playing game with a modern execution but an oldschool heart. A group of four prisoners have shipwrecked on the secluded Isle of Nex. The island is filled with ancient crumbled ruins, mysterious shrines and a vast underground network of dungeons.
Stonekeep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Ranked #8 for The Keep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Keep.
Stonekeep is a first-person full-screen role-playing game. Immerse yourself as you journey through a detailed fantasy world of faeries, goblins, a giant dragon and undead skeletons.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Keep
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.
TinyKeep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Reviewers of The Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
TinyKeep, a top-down procedurally generated dungeon escape game with permadeath - you die and it's game over. Master the frantic physics-based combat, lure enemies into traps or make them fight each other for dominance. There are many ways to survive in TinyKeep!
Stonekeep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Reviewers of The Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Keep.
Stonekeep is a first-person full-screen role-playing game. Immerse yourself as you journey through a detailed fantasy world of faeries, goblins, a giant dragon and undead skeletons.
Arx Fatalis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Reviewers of The Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Keep.
This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.
Legend of Grimrock
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Reviewers of The Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.
Oh, Dungeon Master
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Keep cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Keep.
Oh, Dungeon Master is a dungeon simulator, with elements of a roguelike game. Explore the intricate underground mazes and dense forests to exterminate monsters and find all the pictures!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Keep at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Keep.
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 ~67% under The Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Keep.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Keep.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Keep.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Keep.
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 ~67% under The Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Keep.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Keep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Keep.
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.
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 The Keep.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Keep.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Keep.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Keep.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Keep.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from CINEMAX GAMES
Other recommendable Steam games by CINEMAX GAMES, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Inquisitor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Another title from CINEMAX GAMES, the studio behind The Keep. Shares Indie and RPG with The Keep.
Action-oriented combat with a deep and involving tale of betrayal, torture, madness, and infernal damnation. If a gritty old-school open-ended isometric RPG is what you looking for, look no further. Inquisitor will provide you with hours of gameplay and a dark, involving story.
Gumboy Tournament
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with The Keep.
Another title from CINEMAX GAMES, the studio behind The Keep. Shares Indie with The Keep.
Test your reflexes, judgment and tactics while facing up to eight other players in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed and popular arcade game Gumboy: Crazy Adventures, winner of numerous accolades including Gametunnel's GAME OF THE YEAR 2006.
Numen: Contest of Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Another title from CINEMAX GAMES, the studio behind The Keep. Shares RPG with The Keep.
Nine deities. Nine heroes. And only one champion. Mythical Greece. The land of gods, poets, heroes, but also of terrible monsters and creatures. Numen is a fully three-dimensional action RPG set in mythical Greece.
In the Raven Shadow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Keep.
Another title from CINEMAX GAMES, the studio behind The Keep. Shares Indie with The Keep.
In the Raven Shadow is in the best sense an old-fashioned adventure game for all sense-seeking people.
Chameleon Run Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Keep.
Another title from CINEMAX GAMES, the studio behind The Keep. Shares Indie with The Keep.
Chameleon Run is a unique, fast and challenging autorunner with a colorful twist. Jump, switch and run through expertly crafted levels that will have you running back for more.
Jim is Moving Out!
WHY THIS
Another title from CINEMAX GAMES, the studio behind The Keep. Shares Indie with The Keep.
A physics-based mix of platformer and puzzle game with classical music tunes included. Family friendly, especially in co-op. Help Jim to move-out and see the world!
The Last Liftboy
WHY THIS
Another title from CINEMAX GAMES, the studio behind The Keep. Shares Indie with The Keep.
Being a liftboy is easy… until it’s not. After thirty years, a letter brings Ted Grady back to the Hôtel Grand Valmont. The hotel is barely breathing. Carry luggage, run the elevator, restore the rooms — and save the place that made him.
Zerun
WHY THIS
Another title from CINEMAX GAMES, the studio behind The Keep. Shares Indie with The Keep.
A fast–paced ritual run across magical worlds. Walk the path of the shaman. Solve ancient puzzles, survive the trials, and gather what’s needed to heal your world. Earn every artifact, complete every rite, and bring your world back to life.
Frequently asked about The Keep
- Is The Keep verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Keep is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Keep cost?
- The Keep is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Keep?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Keep are Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Of Dragon Knight, Vaporum: Lockdown.
- Who developed The Keep?
- The Keep was developed by CINEMAX GAMES.
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 The Keep.
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