Games like Mandelarium
If Mandelarium is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hood, Winds Of Arcana: Ruination and Akatori — 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 Mandelarium: Mandelarium is a haunting metroidvania. As Mandorlalmond, master skills to survive demonic ambushes in decaying cities and eerie landscapes. Uncover treasures, quests, and deep, dark lore as you battle kings of vices. Tread cursed realms, slay demonic hordes, and rip forbidden tales.
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Hood
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Top pick for Mandelarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mandelarium.
England, 1216. Experience the true story behind the Robin Hood legend as you control Williken of the Weald in this 2D pixel art stealth platformer. Explore, sneak, and fight your way through the forests, villages, and fortresses of Kent to take down the ruthless Castellan and save your family.
Winds Of Arcana: Ruination
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Second-strongest match for Mandelarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mandelarium.
Discover the secrets of a sundered world as you help Aryn save his comrades in this story-rich, fully-voiced, 2.5D action-platformer. Fight terrible dangers and explore ancient mysteries as Aryn uncovers the forces that forge his destiny.
Akatori
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Third-strongest match for Mandelarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mandelarium.
A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles. Explore beautiful worlds, fight monsters, and help Mako stop the amber storms that poison all living things.
Curse of the Sea Rats
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Ranked #4 for Mandelarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mandelarium.
Embark on an epic, hand-animated, ‘ratoidvania’ adventure, where your crew has been turned into rats by a pirate witch! Explore a rich non-linear world, enjoy fun action platforming, face challenging bosses, and unlock unique abilities - either alone or in local co-op!
Volkolak: The Will of Gods
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Ranked #5 for Mandelarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mandelarium.
Volkolak: The Will of Gods is an epic 2D soulsvania in a dark Slavic fantasy setting, with hand-drawn animation. Explore an enchanted world full of secrets and enemies. Your choices will lead to several endings: become a warrior, a werewolf, or join the darkness.
DOOMBLADE
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Ranked #6 for Mandelarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mandelarium.
Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains. Together, “Doom and Gloom” embark on a vengeful quest to unlock the powerful abilities and destroy the Dread Lords once and for all in this 2D Action Metroidvania.
Absolum
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Ranked #7 for Mandelarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mandelarium.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.
The Legend of Tianding
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Ranked #8 for Mandelarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mandelarium.
The Legend of Tianding is a sidescrolling action game about Liao Tianding, the legendary Taiwanese Folk Hero. Explore the dazzling streets of Colonial Japanese Taiwan in the early 20th century.
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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 Mandelarium.
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 Indie with Mandelarium.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandelarium.
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.
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 Mandelarium.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Mandelarium.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Mandelarium.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Mandelarium.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Mandelarium.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Frequently asked about Mandelarium
- What games are most similar to Mandelarium?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mandelarium are Hood, Winds Of Arcana: Ruination, Akatori.
- Who developed Mandelarium?
- Mandelarium was developed by Erike Miranda, Mandorla Studios, Stefano Sacchi and published by Mandorla Studios.
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 Mandelarium.
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