Games like A Handful of Dust
If A Handful of Dust is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crimson Capes, Kalinur and GRIME — 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 A Handful of Dust: Uncover a kingdom’s dark secrets in this 2D action-adventure Metroidvania. Explore a haunting world of ruins and shadow, master fluid, brutal combat, and unlock powerful abilities to overcome deadly enemies. Forge your path and choose your destiny in an ancient land balanced on the brink of ruin.
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Crimson Capes
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Top pick for A Handful of Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Engage in fluid 2D pixel art swordplay, hunt down witches, fight monsters and experience the age of high adventure. Enter the guild of the Crimson Capes and explore a fantasy world of Sword and Sorcery.
Kalinur
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Second-strongest match for A Handful of Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.
GRIME
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for A Handful of Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for A Handful of Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
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Ranked #5 for A Handful of Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Legendary Tales
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Ranked #6 for A Handful of Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Legendary tales is a VR Action roleplaying game with up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, enhance your abilities and fight your way through an ever changing dungeon to make your own Legendary Tales.
Lords of the Fallen
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Ranked #7 for A Handful of Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
A vast world awaits in the medieval, dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. As a fabled Dark Crusader, embark on an epic quest to overthrow Adyr, the demon God. The final major update Version 2.5 is out now: features deadlier boss battles and all-new Veteran Mode.
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for A Handful of Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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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.
GRIME
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with A Handful of Dust.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Frequently asked about A Handful of Dust
- What games are most similar to A Handful of Dust?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Handful of Dust are Crimson Capes, Kalinur, GRIME.
- Who developed A Handful of Dust?
- A Handful of Dust was developed by BVS Studios.
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 Handful of Dust.
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