Games like Balrum
If Balrum is your kind of game, the closest matches are AntharioN, UnderRail and Towns — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafting drastically improves survival, exploration rewards constant discovery and atmospheric. 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 Balrum: Balrum is an old-school, turn-based, open world RPG with deep tactical combat. Explore a huge living fantasy world with dozens of side quests next to an epic main quest. Grow your own crops, build your home, and craft your own custom items.
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Steam players who put hours into Balrum 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.
AntharioN
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with Balrum.
Top pick for Balrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
Antharion is an epic old-school fantasy RPG that combines tactical turn-based combat with the freedom of a huge living-breathing open world.
UnderRail
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Balrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Balrum.
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Towns
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Balrum.
Third-strongest match for Balrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with Balrum.
Ranked #4 for Balrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!
Avernum: Escape From the Pit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Balrum.
Ranked #5 for Balrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.
Force of Nature
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a retro mood with Balrum.
Ranked #6 for Balrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Balrum.
Ranked #7 for Balrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Torment: Tides of Numenera
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Balrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Balrum at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Balrum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Balrum.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Balrum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Balrum.
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 ~47% under Balrum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Balrum.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Balrum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Balrum.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Balrum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Balrum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Balrum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balrum.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Balrum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Balrum.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Balrum.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Balrum.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Balrum.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Balrum.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Balrum.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Balrum.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Balrum.
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.
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Frequently asked about Balrum
- Does Balrum run on Steam Deck?
- Balrum 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 Balrum cost?
- Balrum is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Balrum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Balrum are AntharioN, UnderRail, Towns.
- Who developed Balrum?
- Balrum was developed by Balcony Softworks.
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 Balrum.
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