Games like Sova
If Sova is your kind of game, the closest matches are Oathguard, Absolutes Akestas Tournament and Omensight: Definitive Edition — 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 Sova: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Sova 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.
Oathguard
WHY THIS
Top pick for Sova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
Defy hordes of undead as a paladin. Strike, dodge, and chain devastating abilities through cursed graveyards in this action roguelike. Evolve your Oath, collect ancient relics and unleash deadly combos every run.
Absolutes Akestas Tournament
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Sova.
A story-driven RPG combat tournament for the throne, glory, and the fate of the world—unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Experience a dark, dramatic world caught between honor and betrayal, where every decision has consequences and your chosen paths shape the conflict.
Omensight: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Sova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
Omensight is an Action Murder Mystery game. In order to prevent the apocalypse, you are fated to repeat the last day of the world until it can be saved. Investigate clues, fight enemies, and solve the murder of the Godless-Priestess.
Aris Arcanum
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sova.
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.
Wartorn
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Sova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
Harness the elements in fierce real-time battles while gathering and upgrading a crew of fantasy creatures in this rogue-lite adventure across a world torn apart by war.
Stories: The Path of Destinies
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Sova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Sova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sova.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sova.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sova.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Sova.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
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 Sova.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Sova.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Omensight: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
Omensight is an Action Murder Mystery game. In order to prevent the apocalypse, you are fated to repeat the last day of the world until it can be saved. Investigate clues, fight enemies, and solve the murder of the Godless-Priestess.
Stories: The Path of Destinies
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sova.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Frequently asked about Sova
- What games are most similar to Sova?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sova are Oathguard, Absolutes Akestas Tournament, Omensight: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Sova?
- Sova was developed by Entropic Island.
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 Sova.
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