Games like Thea: The Awakening
If Thea: The Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thea 2: The Shattering, ENDLESS™ Legend and Fantasy General II — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its writing quality is exceptional, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game released in 2015 by MuHa Games. Set in a dark fantasy world inspired by Slavic folklore, the game combines card-based combat with survival elements and roguelike difficulty. Players navigate a procedurally generated environment, undertaking narrative-driven quests while managing resources and technology through a strategic tech tree. The core progression system revolves around replayable deity perks, which significantly influence each playthrough and contribute to the game's substantial length. Reviewers highlight the high replayability through varied deity perks and the unique blend of strategy and survival mechanics. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, challenging, and immersive. The game supports online cooperative play and is playable on Steam Deck, holding a 90% positive rating from over 2,100 Steam reviews.
About Thea: The Awakening: Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.
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Thea 2: The Shattering
WHY THIS
Shares card based combat and an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Top pick for Thea: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?
ENDLESS™ Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Second-strongest match for Thea: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!
Fantasy General II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Third-strongest match for Thea: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Thea: The Awakening.
The fantasy wargaming classic is back! Lead powerful heroes and mighty armies into battle in this critically acclaimed turn-based strategy milestone. Level up and train your units and guide them through a gripping story campaign to decide the fate of a world on the brink of destruction.
Age of Wonders III
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Ranked #4 for Thea: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Delivering a unique mix of Empire Building, Role Playing and Warfare, Age of Wonders III offers the ultimate in turn-based fantasy strategy for veterans of the series and new players alike!
Eador. Masters of the Broken World
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Ranked #5 for Thea: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.
Age of Wonders Shadow Magic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Ranked #6 for Thea: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is the third entry in the award winning fantasy strategy series. This fan-favorite enhances the series' praised fusion of empire building, role-playing and tactical combat with the eerie Shadow World and battle with races never before seen, across new and diverse landscapes.
Chaos Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Ranked #7 for Thea: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
Myriads: Renaissance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Ranked #8 for Thea: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Thea: The Awakening
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King of Dragon Pass
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Thea: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.
Thea 2: The Shattering
WHY THIS
Shares card based combat and an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Thea: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?
Battle Brothers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Thea: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Thea: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
SUNLESS SEA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Thea: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Reigns
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Thea: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Thea: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Thea: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Thea: The Awakening.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Thea: The Awakening at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Thea: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Thea: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Thea: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Thea: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Thea: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Thea: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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More from MuHa Games
Other recommendable Steam games by MuHa Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Thea 2: The Shattering
WHY THIS
Shares card based combat and an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Another title from MuHa Games, the studio behind Thea: The Awakening. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?
Master of Magic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Another title from MuHa Games, the studio behind Thea: The Awakening. Shares Strategy and Indie with Thea: The Awakening.
Take up the role of a great wizard, wield powerful spells, command fantasy races and challenge your rivals in this remake of a cult turn-based strategy classic. Do you have what it takes to become Master of Magic?
Project Thea
WHY THIS
Shares card based combat and an atmospheric mood with Thea: The Awakening.
Another title from MuHa Games, the studio behind Thea: The Awakening. Shares Strategy and RPG with Thea: The Awakening.
Wake to a brutal world bent on destroying your colony. Rebuild, Explore the Wastelands, and Gather scarce resources. Will you strike a deal with the ruthless Baba Yaga - or hack a rogue Cyber-Rat to turn it into an ally? A dark strategy-survival RPG with card-based tactical combat.
Frequently asked about Thea: The Awakening
- Does Thea: The Awakening run on Steam Deck?
- Thea: The Awakening is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Thea: The Awakening cost?
- Thea: The Awakening is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Thea: The Awakening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Thea: The Awakening are Thea 2: The Shattering, ENDLESS™ Legend, Fantasy General II.
- Who developed Thea: The Awakening?
- Thea: The Awakening was developed by MuHa Games.
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