Games like Pahelika: Secret Legends
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Pahelika: Secret Legends for fans of strategy, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Pahelika: Secret Legends also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from Ironcode Gaming. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
Get personalized picks →About Pahelika: Secret Legends: A delightful adventure featuring exploration and puzzle solving. Long ago, the ancient book of legend, Pahelika, was used to defeat an evil warrior-king. In order to protect the book from misuse it was later hidden in a sacred temple guarded by six magical portals.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pahelika: Secret Legends at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pahelika: Secret Legends on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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 Pahelika: Secret Legends on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pahelika: Secret Legends on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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 Pahelika: Secret Legends on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Pahelika: Secret Legends on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pahelika: Secret Legends on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Pahelika: Secret Legends on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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 Pahelika: Secret Legends on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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.
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 Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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!
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Mitoza
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
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!
Sprout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
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More from Ironcode Gaming
Other recommendable Steam games by Ironcode Gaming, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Pahelika: Revelations
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironcode Gaming, the studio behind Pahelika: Secret Legends. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Pahelika: Revelations is the quintessential Fantasy Adventure, focussing on Exploration & Puzzle solving. Set in an alternate reality where magic co-exists with science, Pahelika: Revelations takes you on the fantastical quest undertaken by Sudesh Budkoti, the protagonist of the Pahelika series.
Tower Of God: One Wish
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironcode Gaming, the studio behind Pahelika: Secret Legends. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Make matches, find objects, solve puzzles, climb the Tower of God and have fun in this innovative Match-3!
Angkor: Celebrations - Match 3 Puzzle
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironcode Gaming, the studio behind Pahelika: Secret Legends. Shares Strategy and Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Angkor: Celebrations is a family friendly Match-3 with engaging gameplay. It tells the story of the player’s quests for the ancient heirloom, the ceremonial Kīla.
Tower Of Wishes: Match 3 Puzzle
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironcode Gaming, the studio behind Pahelika: Secret Legends. Shares Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Tower Of Wishes is a family friendly, fun Match 3. The game also includes mini games such as Hidden Object, Find Differences, Chain Solitaire and Sliders for that bit of extra fun!
Kaya Joshi: Magical Detective
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironcode Gaming, the studio behind Pahelika: Secret Legends. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Kaya Joshi: Magical Detective is a family friendly Hidden Object Adventure. The game blends Hidden Object game play with Adventure gameplay.
Halloween Trouble 3: Match 3 Puzzle
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironcode Gaming, the studio behind Pahelika: Secret Legends. Shares Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Help Jane restore her ancestral home in Halloween Trouble 3, a fun Match-3 game. The game includes minigames such as Jigsaws, Memory, Chain Solitaire and Sliders.
Tower Of Wishes 2: Vikings Collector's Edition (Match 3)
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironcode Gaming, the studio behind Pahelika: Secret Legends. Shares Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Tower Of Wishes 2: Vikings is a family friendly Match 3 with modern design and aesthetics. The game also includes mini games such as Pipes, Memory, Chain Solitaire and Sliders for that bit of extra fun!
Angkor: Beginnings: Match 3 Puzzle
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironcode Gaming, the studio behind Pahelika: Secret Legends. Shares Casual with Pahelika: Secret Legends.
Angkor: Beginnings is a highly re-playable fantasy Match 3 with modern design and aesthetics. The game tells the story of a family trapped on an island with an active volcano. The game also includes mini games and puzzles for variety and extra fun!
Frequently asked about Pahelika: Secret Legends
- Does Pahelika: Secret Legends run on Steam Deck?
- Pahelika: Secret Legends 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 Pahelika: Secret Legends cost?
- Pahelika: Secret Legends is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Who developed Pahelika: Secret Legends?
- Pahelika: Secret Legends was developed by Ironcode Gaming.
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