Games like Valorborn
If Valorborn is your kind of game, the closest matches are KINGDOMS, Tattered Banners and Kenshi — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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 Valorborn: Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.
Players who liked Valorborn also play
Steam players who put hours into Valorborn 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.
KINGDOMS
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a challenging mood with Valorborn.
Top pick for Valorborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valorborn.
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Tattered Banners
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Valorborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Valorborn.
Lead a mercenary company in a turn-based tactics RPG set in a dynamic, simulated world shaped by your actions. Recruit, equip, and evolve your warband to survive a medieval-fantasy realm where cities rise and fall, noble houses pursue personal agendas, and the land bears the scars of your decisions.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Valorborn.
Third-strongest match for Valorborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Valorborn.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
SAELIG
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valorborn.
Ranked #4 for Valorborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Valorborn.
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
Tinkerlands
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, resource gathering, survival and an atmospheric mood with Valorborn.
Ranked #5 for Valorborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Valorborn.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Wartales
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valorborn.
Ranked #6 for Valorborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Valorborn.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Kingdom Builders
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and a challenging mood with Valorborn.
Ranked #7 for Valorborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Valorborn.
City Builder meets Action RPG! Build your kingdom building by building, having villagers join your side. Lead them to expand your empire, defeating foes hindering your empire's growth.
Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares base building, skill tree progression and an atmospheric mood with Valorborn.
Ranked #8 for Valorborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Valorborn.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Valorborn at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Valorborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Valorborn.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Valorborn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Valorborn.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Valorborn on Steam right now. Shares Action with Valorborn.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Valorborn on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Valorborn.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Valorborn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Valorborn.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Valorborn on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Valorborn.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Valorborn.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Valorborn.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Valorborn.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valorborn.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valorborn.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Valorborn.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Valorborn.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Tinkerlands
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, resource gathering, survival and an atmospheric mood with Valorborn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Valorborn.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Wartales
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Valorborn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Valorborn.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Kingdom Builders
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and a challenging mood with Valorborn.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Valorborn.
City Builder meets Action RPG! Build your kingdom building by building, having villagers join your side. Lead them to expand your empire, defeating foes hindering your empire's growth.
Frequently asked about Valorborn
- Does Valorborn work on Steam Deck?
- Valorborn is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Valorborn cost?
- Valorborn is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Valorborn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Valorborn are KINGDOMS, Tattered Banners, Kenshi.
- Who developed Valorborn?
- Valorborn was developed by Laps Games.
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