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Games like Portal Beasts

If Portal Beasts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Spell Boy, Hearth and Harm and Twilight Of The Gods — 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 Portal Beasts: Hunt, capture, and evolve powerful creatures across mysterious dimensions. Step through portals, battle wild Beasts, and uncover the secrets that lie beyond. Still in early development

IndieAdventureRPGWindowsby Lasse Valentin
Portal Beasts — Steam game cover

Players who liked Portal Beasts also play

Steam players who put hours into Portal Beasts 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. Spell Boy

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Portal Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Portal Beasts.

    Wizard/Mage RPG - combat centric - dungeon crawler where you have to master your spells to conquer the dungeons. It comes with handpicked spells and enemies to make enjoyable gameplay. Master the spells and conquer the dungeons!! Its a game of timing, coordination and strategy!!

    2024ActionAdventureRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Hearth and Harm

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Portal Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    A turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler in a winter wasteland, where heat is life. Manage stamina, battle through frozen ruins, and survive deadly procedural dungeons.

    StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  3. Twilight Of The Gods

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Portal Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Portal Beasts.

    In the 8th century an unexpected explosion happened between the morning and the night, on the exact moment of the twilight. After that day, strange kinds of monsters appeard on earth. Man kind had to make a stand to live.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Royal Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Portal Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    Create your party of heroes and cross the dangerous frontier! Protect the caravan, fight bandits, get gold, rewards, and experience to survive another day.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Red Sea

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Portal Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Portal Beasts.

    Red Sea is an intense Real-time Tactics game where you control a small team of vigilantes in increasingly challenging battles. It features a Scriptable Tactics system that mixes auto-battling with manual overrides and has a ton of powerful ability interactions to discover.

    2023StrategyIndieRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Dwerve

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Portal Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    An epic action-adventure with tower defense combat! Dungeon crawl through a ruined kingdom, fending off hordes with turrets and traps! Punch them into pits! Pull them into spinblades! Zap and burn them!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dark Deity 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Portal Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Worldless

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Portal Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Portal Beasts.

    Worldless is a stylised 2D platformer with a unique combat system and a mind-bending interpretative narrative. Players embark on a journey of self-growth and understanding, pushing the limits of their nature in a newly born and abstract universe.

    2023ActionStrategyAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 Portal Beasts.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Portal Beasts.

    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 ↗
  5. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Portal Beasts.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    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 ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Dwerve

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    An epic action-adventure with tower defense combat! Dungeon crawl through a ruined kingdom, fending off hordes with turrets and traps! Punch them into pits! Pull them into spinblades! Zap and burn them!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Dark Deity 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Portal Beasts.

    Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Worldless

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Portal Beasts.

    Worldless is a stylised 2D platformer with a unique combat system and a mind-bending interpretative narrative. Players embark on a journey of self-growth and understanding, pushing the limits of their nature in a newly born and abstract universe.

    2023ActionStrategyAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Portal Beasts

What games are most similar to Portal Beasts?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Portal Beasts are Spell Boy, Hearth and Harm, Twilight Of The Gods.
Who developed Portal Beasts?
Portal Beasts was developed by Lasse Valentin and published by Valentin Games.

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 Portal Beasts.

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