Games like Whatever It Takes
If Whatever It Takes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tales of Acilain : Bound by Shadow, Chort and Expedition: Into Darkness — 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 Whatever It Takes: Whatever It Takes is a hardcore first-person Action RPG in a dark fantasy setting. As a fallen god, master elemental magic, absorb enemy powers, and engage in tactical duels. Use a harpoon for traversal and shape the Omnisphere’s fate through your choices. Reclaim your throne. Whatever it takes.
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Tales of Acilain : Bound by Shadow
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Top pick for Whatever It Takes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
Explore the lands of Acilain and uncover their secrets. Solve dynamic puzzles, defeat relentless foes, and slay challenging bosses to unlock new abilities. No weapon is stronger than that of your spirit.
Chort
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Whatever It Takes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
A 2.5D dark-fantasy action - adventure where you are the monster. Slain by a witch's curse, the demon Chort claws his way back from death to hunt the girl bound to him by fate - reclaiming his lost power piece by piece. Slavic folk horror from the age when the old gods went silent.
Expedition: Into Darkness
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Whatever It Takes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
Brave forbidden dungeons in a quest for knowledge and treasure in this medieval PvE co-op extraction looter. Craft weapons, customise gear and join forces with up to four allies. Survive the ruins together—or lose everything you carry.
Save Us, Doctor Faust!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Whatever It Takes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Whatever It Takes.
Save Us, Doctor Faust! is an immersive medieval doctor simulator where you diagnose diseases, study medicine, and craft remedies from raw ingredients. Examine your patients, grind and distill ingredients, experiment with recipes — and remember: one mistake could cost a life.
Godreaper
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Ranked #5 for Whatever It Takes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
Godreaper is a dark third-person action-adventure where the fate of your homeland hangs in the balance. As the bogatyr Zaremire, explore every corner of a world inspired by East Slavic mythology. Defeat the creatures of Navi, battle almighty gods and save your homeland from inevitable destruction.
Asterfel
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Ranked #6 for Whatever It Takes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Whatever It Takes.
Welcome to Asterfel, an island shaped by ambition, conflict, and something far older stirring beneath the surface. Encounter three factions, discover forgotten history, and shape the island’s future. Will you thrive, survive, or witness the end of an era?
Cursebreakers
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Ranked #7 for Whatever It Takes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
Cursebreakers is an exclusively co-op first-person dungeon crawler. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend's Pass and master sword & sorcery together. Explore a lost castle and delve into a rich dark fantasy world full of monsters, traps and magic. Defeat the fallen queen and BREAK THE CURSE!
Ardenfall
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Ranked #8 for Whatever It Takes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
Ardenfall is an immersive RPG set in a world of intricate politics and ancient cultures. Explore flowing plains, rain drenched wetlands, and forgotten dungeons full of danger. Meet countless interesting characters with unique dialog and quests, and leave your mark on this mysterious world.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Whatever It Takes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Whatever It Takes.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Next Genium, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dungeon Dominator
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Another title from Next Genium, the studio behind Whatever It Takes.
Build and expand your own warm, cozy dungeon where your minions live miserable lives and do their evil things. Take part in thrilling battles against humans, angels, and powerful bosses, defending your domain. Conquer the world by commanding an army with a wave of your hand!
Blue Book
WHY THIS
Another title from Next Genium, the studio behind Whatever It Takes. Shares Adventure and RPG with Whatever It Takes.
Blue Book is a sci-fi detective quest with point'n'click elements, where there are no hints, there are false clues and only your conclusion. Analyze testimonies, find inconsistencies, follow the logic. Become an FBI agent and unravel a chain of mysterious disappearances in a quiet American town.
Spider Matrix
WHY THIS
Another title from Next Genium, the studio behind Whatever It Takes. Shares Action with Whatever It Takes.
Expedition is dead, but your mind woke inside a mechanical spider. Become a fatal glitch in the Machine Swarm network, which arrived for a fifth-dimension fragment. Scale walls, strip enemy weapons, and destroy the Hive Mind to save the planet.
Frequently asked about Whatever It Takes
- What games are most similar to Whatever It Takes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Whatever It Takes are Tales of Acilain : Bound by Shadow, Chort, Expedition: Into Darkness.
- Who developed Whatever It Takes?
- Whatever It Takes was developed by Next Genium.
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 Whatever It Takes.
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