Games like Elusive
If Elusive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corestory, Rushaug: Feline Warfare and lil: Essence of Life — 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 Elusive: Elusive is a borrower metroidvania combining 3D and 2D scenarios in a Giant House. Use your smallness to find resources in every corner, craft new tools and survive challenges with your acrobatic skills.
Players who liked Elusive also play
Steam players who put hours into Elusive 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.
Corestory
WHY THIS
Top pick for Elusive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Embark on an exciting journey through the long forgotten kingdom of Corestate. Collect and master various abilities, upgrade your gear, customize how you want to play and defeat powerful opponents. Decide about the world’s fate in this mysterious pixel-art Metroidvania.
Rushaug: Feline Warfare
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Elusive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Elusive.
A tactical platformer combining stealth and fast-paced gunplay with action and story-driven missions in a vast explorable world with a large variety of environments. Infiltrate enemy outposts, prevent nuclear war, and uncover the enemy's top secret weapon; Project Emerald.
lil: Essence of Life
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Elusive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
A hand-drawn Metroidvania focused on exploration, combat, and progression through essence absorption, evolving weapons, and player-driven balance choices.
PhantomGaze : Omni-sight
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Ranked #4 for Elusive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
A 2D Metroidvania where you control two characters at once. A blind swordsman fights in melee, while a spirit archer provides ranged support. Master parry rhythms and exploit weaknesses using the bestiary. Uncover the secrets of a world built on Asian aesthetics through a stranger's eyes.
Shadow Strings
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Ranked #5 for Elusive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Elusive.
A 2.5D story-driven RPG blending turn-based timeline combat, rhythm-based actions, and Metroidvania-style exploration. As Emilia descends into the Underworld, she must confront gods, shadows, and the trauma that binds her — and fight to save the one she loves.
Echoes From The Soul
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Ranked #6 for Elusive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
"Let the fragments reverberate within your being. Let the echoes from your soul vibrate within every living bodycell. Now, my child, you're whole again. Be it a good or a bad thing, we'll leave for you to choose."
Dokkalfar: The Ballads of Vivi the Dark Elf
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Ranked #7 for Elusive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Elusive.
Become Vivi, a shadow-wielding dark elf who hunts a sorcerer’s cult with speed and precision. Dash through enemy attacks, parry deadly strikes, and master acrobatic movement and shadow magic as you explore a dangerous dark fantasy world.
Well Dweller
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Ranked #8 for Elusive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania, full of charming characters living in a wretched kingdom. Play as Glimmer - a tiny bird armed with a matchstick - who must burn the wicked queen to save his family.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elusive.
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 Adventure with Elusive.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elusive.
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 Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elusive.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
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 Elusive.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Chibig
Other recommendable Steam games by Chibig, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Summer in Mara
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Another title from Chibig, the studio behind Elusive. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.
Mika and The Witch's Mountain
WHY THIS
Another title from Chibig, the studio behind Elusive. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is a fantasy adventure about an aspiring witch who delivers packages to the townspeople of a small island. Explore every cranny and soar through the sky with your magic broom.
Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara
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Another title from Chibig, the studio behind Elusive. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Join Koa and Napopo on a 3D platformer adventure through the islands of Mara! Outwit traps, explore the ocean, maneuver dangerous environments, and have fun in 8 wild worlds on their quest to recover stolen pirate loot.
Deiland: Pocket Planet
WHY THIS
Another title from Chibig, the studio behind Elusive. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Deiland: Pocket Planet is a farming adventure where you will have to take care of your tiny planet. Farm, craft, fight and explore the universe of Deiland.
Ankora: Lost Days
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Another title from Chibig, the studio behind Elusive. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Discover the wild planet Ankora and explore freely around this mysterious world full of promise and danger. Craft different tools, build structures and terraform yourself a new home in this cute-as-heck survival game.
Summer in Mara Prologue
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Another title from Chibig, the studio behind Elusive. Shares Adventure with Elusive.
A demo of Summer in Mara. Discover the beginning of this adventure and take care of your island by harvesting your crops, fishing on your pond, and cooking. Enjoy the opening act to this farming adventure.
Stories of Mara
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Another title from Chibig, the studio behind Elusive. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
Dive into the charming Stories of Mara, an episodic slice of life tale about a diverse cast of characters. Get to know your neighbours and bond with them, but… Could you make them stick together to help each other?
Ankora: Lost Days - Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Chibig, the studio behind Elusive. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elusive.
The opening act of Ankora: Lost Days. Discover the beginning of this adventure and explore freely around this mysterious world full of promise and danger. Craft different tools, build structures and terraform yourself a new home in the opening act of this cute-as-heck survival game.
Frequently asked about Elusive
- What games are most similar to Elusive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Elusive are Corestory, Rushaug: Feline Warfare, lil: Essence of Life.
- Who developed Elusive?
- Elusive was developed by Chibig.
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 Elusive.
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