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Games like Jotun: Valhalla Edition

If Jotun: Valhalla Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Tale, Raji: An Ancient Epic and Apsulov: End of Gods — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric music and soundtrack, authentic icelandic voice acting and atmospheric. 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.

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Jotun: Valhalla Edition is a hand-drawn action-adventure game released in 2015 by Thunder Lotus, priced at $14.99. Set in Norse mythology, players control Thora, a Viking warrior seeking entry to Valhalla by impressing the Gods through combat. The game features slow-paced combat with ability-cycling and boss-pattern-telegraphing mechanics, where exploration without sprint emphasizes deliberate progression through hand-drawn environments. Each realm is tied to a specific boss encounter, and players describe the boss fights as epic in scale. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric music and authentic Icelandic voice acting as particularly memorable elements. The challenging solo experience carries a 77% positive rating from over 1,000 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.

About Jotun: Valhalla Edition: Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla. Impress the Gods!

2015ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 79Windows · macOS · Linuxby Thunder Lotus
Jotun: Valhalla Edition — Steam game cover
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Players who liked Jotun: Valhalla Edition also play

Steam players who put hours into Jotun: Valhalla Edition 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.

  1. The Last Tale

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Jotun: Valhalla Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Embark on an odyssey through Northern realms in this 2D couch co-op adventure. Play as siblings Torsten and Annika, using gifts from the gods to avenge your village and hunt the mysterious Ivar. Combine axe, bow, and magic to overcome mythological beasts and puzzles to save the world from darkness.

    ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Raji: An Ancient Epic

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Second-strongest match for Jotun: Valhalla Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action-adventure game set in ancient India. A young girl named Raji has been chosen by the gods to stand against the demonic invasion of the human realm. Her destiny? To rescue her younger brother and face the demon lord Mahabalasura.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure6.24 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Apsulov: End of Gods

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Third-strongest match for Jotun: Valhalla Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    In this future viking horror you awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to research and exploit the worlds of Yggdrasil, and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago.First person with a futuristic Norse mythology story. Horror adventure in the realms of Yggdrasil.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sundered®: Eldritch Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Ranked #4 for Jotun: Valhalla Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Sundered is a chaotic hand­-drawn metroidvania where you resist or embrace ancient eldritch powers, a challenging and unique take on a classic genre from the creators of Jotun, now with local co-op!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Little Acre

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Jotun: Valhalla Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    While searching for his father, Aidan travels to a strange new world. Lily - his heroic daughter - sets off after him. Fully voiced and with hand-drawn animations, The Little Acre is a lovingly crafted adventure developed by Pewter Games with Executive Producer Charles Cecil.

    2016IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. EITR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Jotun: Valhalla Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Eitr is an action RPG built around exceptional combat and formidable challenges set within a mythological Norse world.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Ranked #7 for Jotun: Valhalla Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Munin

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Ranked #8 for Jotun: Valhalla Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Jotun: Valhalla Edition at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Jotun: Valhalla Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Jotun: Valhalla Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Jotun: Valhalla Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Jotun: Valhalla Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Jotun: Valhalla Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Jotun: Valhalla Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Jotun: Valhalla Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Jotun: Valhalla Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Apsulov: End of Gods

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    In this future viking horror you awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to research and exploit the worlds of Yggdrasil, and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago.First person with a futuristic Norse mythology story. Horror adventure in the realms of Yggdrasil.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Munin

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

    Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Jotun: Valhalla Edition

Does Jotun: Valhalla Edition run on Steam Deck?
Jotun: Valhalla Edition 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 Jotun: Valhalla Edition cost?
Jotun: Valhalla Edition is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Jotun: Valhalla Edition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jotun: Valhalla Edition are The Last Tale, Raji: An Ancient Epic, Apsulov: End of Gods.
Who developed Jotun: Valhalla Edition?
Jotun: Valhalla Edition was developed by Thunder Lotus.

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 Jotun: Valhalla Edition.

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