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Games like Forgotten Eras

If Forgotten Eras is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape from Area 51, Fornani and Lionheart: The Spirit Within — 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.

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About Forgotten Eras: Explore a Slavic folklore-inspired 2.5D Metroidvania. Guide Ivan and the Grey Wolf through a mythic kingdom, wield runes, solve puzzles, and face legends such as Domovoy and Baba Yaga reborn in a stylized, atmospheric world.

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Forgotten Eras — Steam game cover

Players who liked Forgotten Eras also play

Steam players who put hours into Forgotten Eras 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. Escape from Area 51

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Forgotten Eras fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    A story-driven sci-fi detective puzzle game where mind reading, shapeshifting, and social roles open different paths through the game. Explore Area 51, use dialogue, avoid enemies, and uncover a conspiracy inside a secret military base.

    2026IndieAdventureEarly AccessSteam ↗
  2. Fornani

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Forgotten Eras fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    Explore an ancient island that drifts amongst the raging clouds of a gas giant. Collect various guns and items, solve puzzles, and shoot any thugs or monsters that get in your way. Meet the locals and aid them in their quest to take down Skycorps while they aid you with yours: finding your brother.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Lionheart: The Spirit Within

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Forgotten Eras fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    Play as a boy who cannot fight and a lion who can. Switch instantly between two interconnected worlds in a hand-painted 2.5D metroidvania where stealth, combat and exploration work together to help you rescue your parents.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. KON: Tale of the Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Forgotten Eras fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Forgotten Eras.

    A dark-fantasy interdimensional adventure. Snap your fingers to explore overlapping realities, face high-intensity platforming sections, solve environmental puzzles, and escape a deadly force threatening to consume everything.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  5. Gooboventure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Forgotten Eras fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    A hand-pixeled platformer about a blob of goo. Ledges carry you up, ceilings don't drop you, narrow cracks are doors. Goo is both your health and your ammunition, and it comes from fighting. Find your scattered neighbours before winter.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Mariachi Legends

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Forgotten Eras fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    Mariachi Legends is a brutal, pixel art, combat-oriented Metroidvania set in the heart of Mexico.You play as Pablo Cruz, a detective who has agreed to a deal with Death herself. She has given Pablo the ability to transform into the mighty La Sombra allowing him to fight back against evil.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Halima

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Forgotten Eras fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    Enter a claymation dream world shaped by jinn, memory, and forgotten rituals. Solve symbolic puzzles, evade the Nightmare Jinn, and uncover the truth buried inside the dream.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. HIIT: Stranded on Zaruma

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Forgotten Eras fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    Trapped on the mysterious planet Zaruma, use tools like the Drone, Scanner, and Hookshot to explore the ruins of an ancient civilization and uncover what happened before your arrival.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Forgotten Eras.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  7. Tukoni: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forgotten Eras.

    Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.

    2020IndieAdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. DOGWALK

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Forgotten Eras.

    Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

    2025IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Forgotten Eras

What games are most similar to Forgotten Eras?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forgotten Eras are Escape from Area 51, Fornani, Lionheart: The Spirit Within.
Who developed Forgotten Eras?
Forgotten Eras was developed by Behind the Hump.

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 Forgotten Eras.

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