Games like A Year Of Rain
If A Year Of Rain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lightphobe, Element TD 2 - Tower Defense and Iron League — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and epic. 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 A Year Of Rain: A desolate realm, kept in flux by the rhythm of battle. A proving ground for those with great ambition. A Year Of Rain is the ultimate team real-time strategy game. Choose your faction, team up and take control of a legendary hero to lead your armies!
Players who liked A Year Of Rain also play
Steam players who put hours into A Year Of Rain 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.
Lightphobe
WHY THIS
Top pick for A Year Of Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Beware of the darkness... Lightphobe is an asymmetrical team-based PVP game that blends stealth action with fast-paced shooter gameplay. Pick a side and work together as a team to emerge victorious!
Element TD 2 - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for A Year Of Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
Element TD 2 sees you combine powerful elements to create unique towers. Prove your defenses against challenging foes, and compete or cooperate with others to determine who has mastered the elements.
Iron League
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for A Year Of Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
Behold the clash of heroes! Iron League is a MOBA teamfight of the warriors named "Ironsides". The League does not care what their motives are, as long as they give a good fight. How about you? Do you wanna be the strongest Ironside? Then, take a bold step into the Iron League!
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for A Year Of Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with A Year Of Rain.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for A Year Of Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with A Year Of Rain.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Blood Bowl: Death Zone
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for A Year Of Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with A Year Of Rain.
Blood Bowl: Death Zone is a competitive 1 vs. 1 game of football, violence and mayhem. Pick a Star Player, a team and a sponsor from the many combinations available and challenge coaches from all over the world in real-time. It’s Blood Bowl, like you’ve never seen it before!
Iron Harvest
WHY THIS
Shares co op campaign and an atmospheric mood with A Year Of Rain.
Ranked #7 for A Year Of Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with A Year Of Rain.
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with A Year Of Rain.
Ranked #8 for A Year Of Rain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Year Of Rain at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Year Of Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
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 A Year Of Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with A Year Of Rain.
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 A Year Of Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under A Year Of Rain on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with A Year Of Rain.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under A Year Of Rain on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
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 A Year Of Rain on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
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 A Year Of Rain on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
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 A Year Of Rain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with A Year Of Rain.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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More from Daedalic Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Daedalic Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Year Of Rain.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind A Year Of Rain. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
Deponia: The Complete Journey
WHY THIS
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind A Year Of Rain.
Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.
Blackguards
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Year Of Rain.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind A Year Of Rain. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Year Of Rain.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
Deponia Doomsday
WHY THIS
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind A Year Of Rain. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
The Night of the Rabbit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Year Of Rain.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind A Year Of Rain. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Year Of Rain.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind A Year Of Rain. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
Chaos on Deponia
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with A Year Of Rain.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind A Year Of Rain. Shares Indie with A Year Of Rain.
With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.
Frequently asked about A Year Of Rain
- Does A Year Of Rain run on Steam Deck?
- A Year Of Rain is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does A Year Of Rain cost?
- A Year Of Rain is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does A Year Of Rain have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — A Year Of Rain supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to A Year Of Rain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Year Of Rain are Lightphobe, Element TD 2 - Tower Defense, Iron League.
- Who developed A Year Of Rain?
- A Year Of Rain was developed by Daedalic Entertainment.
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 A Year Of Rain.
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