Games like Abelina
If Abelina is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Chronicles of Ilseera: Tarrowmorr, WaxHeart and Aether Wizard 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 Abelina: A surreal, hand-crafted adventure platformer. You died and woke up here in Abelina. Now you're heading out into the frontier with your companions following behind. There is no combat, instead you explore a vast world and a mature story about carrying life's baggage into the afterlife.
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Steam players who put hours into Abelina 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.
The Chronicles of Ilseera: Tarrowmorr
WHY THIS
Top pick for Abelina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Delve into a Fantasy land with Dinosaurs, Magic, and Kingdoms at the edge of war. Explore the island of Tarrowmorr in this retro style, action adventure game designed to look and feel as though it was made in the late 1990s.
WaxHeart
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Abelina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
An atmospheric puzzle-adventure platformer where a wax child with a lantern for a heart journeys through a ruined world in search of their lost memory.
Aether Wizard Life
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Abelina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Aether Wizard Life is a cozy adventure where you apprentice as a young wizard in a haunted town filled with magic, mystery, and romance. A love letter to Studio Ghibli and classic 2D hand-drawn games.
Hell Pie
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Abelina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Abelina.
Hell Pie is an obscene 3D platformer that takes bad taste to the next level! Hell Pie sees you grab the horns of Nate, the ‘Demon of Bad Taste’. He is given the honorable task of gathering the disgusting ingredients for Satan’s infamous birthday pie!
Another Crab's Treasure
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Abelina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
In a vibrant undersea kingdom on the verge of collapse, a hermit crab embarks on a treasure hunt to buy back his repossessed shell. The second game from AGGRO CRAB.
Praey for the Gods
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Abelina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.
1428: Shadows over Silesia
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Abelina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Medieval Europe is in the middle of religious upheaval and many a preacher predict the imminent end of the world. Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy story with true historical events in the background. You'll be facing intricate puzzles, challenging battles and cunning stealth.
Saviorless
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Abelina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Embark on a journey to The Smiling Islands, the realm of the Saviors, where an enigmatic guide beckons. The seasoned narrator has shared this story countless times, yet none have graced the miraculous land. Can you seize your narrative and ascend as a Savior?
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. Shares Adventure with Abelina.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Abelina.
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 Abelina.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Abelina.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
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.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Hell Pie
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Abelina.
Hell Pie is an obscene 3D platformer that takes bad taste to the next level! Hell Pie sees you grab the horns of Nate, the ‘Demon of Bad Taste’. He is given the honorable task of gathering the disgusting ingredients for Satan’s infamous birthday pie!
Another Crab's Treasure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
In a vibrant undersea kingdom on the verge of collapse, a hermit crab embarks on a treasure hunt to buy back his repossessed shell. The second game from AGGRO CRAB.
Praey for the Gods
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.
1428: Shadows over Silesia
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Medieval Europe is in the middle of religious upheaval and many a preacher predict the imminent end of the world. Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy story with true historical events in the background. You'll be facing intricate puzzles, challenging battles and cunning stealth.
Saviorless
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abelina.
Embark on a journey to The Smiling Islands, the realm of the Saviors, where an enigmatic guide beckons. The seasoned narrator has shared this story countless times, yet none have graced the miraculous land. Can you seize your narrative and ascend as a Savior?
Frequently asked about Abelina
- What games are most similar to Abelina?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Abelina are The Chronicles of Ilseera: Tarrowmorr, WaxHeart, Aether Wizard Life.
- Who developed Abelina?
- Abelina was developed by Gabe Askew and published by Indieformer.
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 Abelina.
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