Games like Urja
If Urja is your kind of game, the closest matches are Knight Swap, Winexy and The Steps as we know them — 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 Urja: The king is deceitful, the queen is wicked, and the bishop unholy. In every land it’s the same. Corrupted knights and power hungry pawns. It’s time for change. You've waited long enough. Be brave. Be daring. Be the last one standing.
Players who liked Urja also play
Steam players who put hours into Urja 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.
Knight Swap
WHY THIS
Top pick for Urja fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urja.
One chess piece, the mighty knight. One simple concept: exchange the knights from one colored square to another. One hundred hand-crafted levels in a beautiful minimalist set. Can you swap the knights?
The Steps as we know them
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Urja fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urja.
Use the moves of chess to solve puzzles. Find your way with six different pieces, through six different worlds. Use a varying way of thinking in each world.
NOIRCOTICS
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Urja fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urja.
All drugs are legal in the city. Your job is to manipulate them to keep up with the demands of the mobs.
SokoChess
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Urja fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urja.
SokoChess is a minimalistic puzzle game about pushing chess pieces. Use your pieces to push the black figures to their destination, but be careful! The opposing pieces will capture yours if you give them the chance!
Eddie's Arcade
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Urja fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Urja.
Uniquely satisfying puzzle game spread out over different graphical themes. The puzzles get harder as you advance, giving you the pleasing sense of accomplishment. Collect arcade tokens to unlock new machines. Over 125 levels for hours of play.
Arc Tracker
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Urja fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Urja.
Move the ball, avoid obstacles, earn coins, and reach the destination using only circular orbits! It sounds easy and simple... but it's not! Immerse yourself in a world of deep and challenging puzzles!
CUBOID
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Urja fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urja.
CUBOID is a challenging spatial puzzle game with minimalist design, where you progress through a labyrinth of levels using a unique mechanic of merging with world blocks.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Urja at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Urja on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Urja.
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 Urja on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Urja.
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 Urja on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urja.
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 Urja on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Urja.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Urja on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Urja.
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 Urja on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Urja.
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 Urja on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Urja.
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 Urja on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Urja.
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.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urja.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urja.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urja.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Urja.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Urja.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about Urja
- How much does Urja cost?
- Urja is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Urja?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Urja are Knight Swap, Winexy, The Steps as we know them.
- Who developed Urja?
- Urja was developed by Breaking Fourth.
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 Urja.
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