Games like RuneSmith
If RuneSmith is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nivalis Nights, Where's the Boat and Subterrain: Mines of Titan — 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 RuneSmith: Grab your beer and join Durgrim into his quest to get his money back from a summoner that is trying to end all creation. Runesmith is a humorous RPG where a grudge-holding dwarf runesmith engraves powerful runes, talks to other dwarves and kills everything else!
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Nivalis Nights
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Top pick for RuneSmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with RuneSmith.
Grow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing and maybe even find love in a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds.
Where's the Boat
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Second-strongest match for RuneSmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
Where's the Boat is a sandbox open world survival crafting game set on an archipelago of deserted islands. Gather resources, craft tools, tend to your needs and travel from island to island in search for a way back to civilization.
Subterrain: Mines of Titan
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Third-strongest match for RuneSmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with RuneSmith.
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles
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Ranked #4 for RuneSmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
The Hyper‑Dungeon awaits! Explore an evershifting labyrinth where classic dungeon‑crawling meets exhilarating action. Challenge yourself in turn-based combat with a real‑time, arcade‑inspired twist and befriend an eccentric cast of dungeon dwellers on the quest for the legendary Sacred Groowl!
The Eastern Sacrifice
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Ranked #5 for RuneSmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
“The Eastern Sacrifice” is an idle game combining simulation with Eastern Cthulhu-inspired themes. In a world spiraling into chaos over authority, vanquish enemy, gather treasures, and build a devoted religion. Your sanctuary will help you reclaim theurgy, ascend to the divine realm.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #6 for RuneSmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.
Home Behind 2
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Ranked #7 for RuneSmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
Home Behind 2 is a Roguelike RPG which set in Scaria, a country engulfed in a ten-year civil war. Lead a patchwork group of revolutionary fighters into the depths of the government's territory as you struggle to overthrow a brutal authoritarian regime!
Eventide Matter
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Ranked #8 for RuneSmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with RuneSmith.
A 2D space mining adventure. Mine exotic resources, unlock powerful equipment, and fend off relentless enemies to build an inter-dimensional portal, the last hope of salvation for your civilization.
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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 RuneSmith.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RuneSmith.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RuneSmith.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about RuneSmith
- What games are most similar to RuneSmith?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RuneSmith are Nivalis Nights, Where's the Boat, Subterrain: Mines of Titan.
- Who developed RuneSmith?
- RuneSmith was developed by Terahard Ltd.
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 RuneSmith.
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