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Games like Mirklurk: Every Step Matters

If Mirklurk: Every Step Matters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mind Against Fate, Wuxia Life and Vizarri — 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.

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About Mirklurk: Every Step Matters: You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last. You must constantly make choices: what paths to take, which tree to shelter under, what beasts to engage or avoid, what items to bring into the darkness of dungeons, and what treasures to leave behind.

2026RPGEarly Access8.49 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Edym Pixels
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters — Steam game cover

Players who liked Mirklurk: Every Step Matters also play

Steam players who put hours into Mirklurk: Every Step Matters 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.

  1. Mind Against Fate

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Mirklurk: Every Step Matters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Mind Against Fate is a turn-based tactical PvP arena RPG combining classic tabletop strategy with deep character builds. Choose your class, customize your gear, manage risks with calculated dice rolls, and outsmart your opponents in intense grid-based duels!

    2026StrategyIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  2. Wuxia Life

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Mirklurk: Every Step Matters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    You never truly knew your father. Wuxia Life is a single-player wuxia RPG set on Yingzhou. Investigate his death and your origins, expose the Blacktide Gang's betrayal of Yingzhou, and shape your ending through ATB combat, Five Inner Voices, inner demons, and the Heavenly Storyteller.

    2027StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Vizarri

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Mirklurk: Every Step Matters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    A monster-taming RPG set on the planet of Valaar. Capture and train mystical creatures known by the locals as Vizarri. Battle other trainers in tactical, turn-based combat on a dynamic grid. Explore islands, collect items, and outsmart a rising enemy force. These are the Adventures of Valaar.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  4. Tales of Kathay

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Mirklurk: Every Step Matters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Tales of Kathay is a tactical turn-based RPG where every world is born from centuries of simulated history. Explore ruined kingdoms, join faction wars, craft your path through a living sandbox, and return generations later to see the mark your choices left behind.

    AdventureSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  5. Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Mirklurk: Every Step Matters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    On your maiden voyage with the Heroes Guild, your ship was capsized by an enigmatic maelstrom, stranding your party on Respite Island. Navigate your way through pirates, ferocious beasts, and shady alchemists as you unravel its mysteries.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Devil Spire Falls

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Mirklurk: Every Step Matters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    The open-world action-RPG, where you can do anything, of your dreams… as if it came out 30 years ago!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Mirklurk: Every Step Matters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Veterum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Mirklurk: Every Step Matters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Early Access with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!

    2025StrategyIndieRPG17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mirklurk: Every Step Matters at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Mirklurk: Every Step Matters on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Mirklurk: Every Step Matters on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under Mirklurk: Every Step Matters on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Mirklurk: Every Step Matters on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Streets of Rogue

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Mirklurk: Every Step Matters on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Tower Wizard

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Mirklurk: Every Step Matters on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hylics

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Mirklurk: Every Step Matters on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Hylics is a recreational program with light JRPG elements.

    2015IndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under Mirklurk: Every Step Matters on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    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.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Edym Pixels

Other recommendable Steam games by Edym Pixels, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Grim Nights

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

    2018StrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grim Realms

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Break the Empire

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Fight your way to the capital and slay the emperor! Choose from a variety of characters with unique spells and skills! Featuring permadeath, interactable terrain, distinct builds, wild combos, and endless replayability.

    2025ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Hollow Island

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

    Shape your own destiny: Explore, dig for riches, fish, grow crops, cook food, brew and sell potions, expand your property, fight monsters, build camps and hoard your treasures!

    2020Indie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mirklurk: Every Step Matters

Does Mirklurk: Every Step Matters run on Steam Deck?
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters 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 Mirklurk: Every Step Matters cost?
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters is listed on Steam at 8.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Mirklurk: Every Step Matters?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mirklurk: Every Step Matters are Mind Against Fate, Wuxia Life, Vizarri.
Who developed Mirklurk: Every Step Matters?
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters was developed by Edym Pixels.

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 Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

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