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Games like Ancient Adventure

If Ancient Adventure is your kind of game, the closest matches are Warriors of the End, Masterstone and Technoidium — 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 Ancient Adventure: Venture forth! Kill the Monsters! Evil has taken over the world. Equip your Weapons of Choice. Journey out into the world to avenge your predecessors. Survive the hordes, seek out to extinguish the source of all Evil, so that one day, your people may finally live in peace.

2026ActionIndieAdventureRPG11.99 USDWindowsby James H. Van der Meulen
Ancient Adventure — Steam game cover

Players who liked Ancient Adventure also play

Steam players who put hours into Ancient Adventure 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. Warriors of the End

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Ancient Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    Warriors of the End is a fast-paced tower-defense horde-battler roguelike. Defend the Princess against enemy hordes by strategically positioning and upgrading your towers, customize unique characters with deadly weapons and spells, discover mindblowing synergies and create game-breaking builds!

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  2. Masterstone

    WHY THIS

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

    Roguelite action RPG with procedural levels and story. Random skills and loot force improvised builds, making every playthrough unique. Every enemy is a potential danger, resources are scarce, and death is punishing.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Technoidium

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Ancient Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    Master the swing of your dual directional combat tandem whip tether weapon. Seek and destroy the Corrupted Mechanoids and purge the infection. 

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  4. Risen Blade

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Ancient Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ancient Adventure.

    Smash the Dudes. Risen Blade is a fast-paced hack and slash roguelike where you chain brutal combos, carve through endless enemies, and forge powerful builds across unique classes.

    2026ActionRPG3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Perihelion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ancient Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancient Adventure.

    Master orbital combat and bend gravity to your advantage in this space combat roguelite. Launch from your carrier, tackle tactical missions, build crew relationships, and upgrade your ship between runs as you slowly unravel the mystery of a lost sister ship.

    2027ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  6. Eisen

    WHY THIS

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

    Eisen is a strategic action roguelite. Evolve your weapons through branching trees, combine them with artifacts to craft broken builds, and use your dash to weave through endless swarms and evade complex boss patterns.

    2026ActionIndieRPG1.19 USDSteam ↗
  7. Caravan Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Ancient Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancient Adventure.

    Keep the wheels turning. Your caravan rolls down a deadly road while hired heroes and mounted turrets hold back the endless horde. Build your loadout, manage your caravan's inventory, and haul risky cargo for profit. Survive the route at all cost.

    ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  8. Mystic Seals

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Ancient Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancient Adventure.

    Battle against terrible foes! Collect mystical powerups! Befriend adorably violent pets! Explore the mysterious Unjima Island and its demon-cursed shrines in a brand new twin-stick Rougelite Co-Op featuring Shrine Maiden Shizuka and her companions!

    ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ancient Adventure at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Ancient Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Ancient Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    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 ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Ancient Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ancient Adventure.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Ancient Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ancient Adventure.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Ancient Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~59% under Ancient Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Ancient Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Ancient Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

Coming soon from James H. Van der Meulen

Announced and quality-gated upcoming releases from James H. Van der Meulen — ranked by community wishlist demand from our scraped pool.

  1. First Curse

    WHY THIS

    Announced upcoming release from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ancient Adventure.

    A lone warrior awakes from a deep slumber, sensing something is terribly wrong with the world. Set out to seek the reason for this underlying sense of unease that has afflicted the people of the land.

    Releases December 2026AdventureRPGSteam ↗
  2. Technoidium

    WHY THIS

    Announced upcoming release from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    Master the swing of your dual directional combat tandem whip tether weapon. Seek and destroy the Corrupted Mechanoids and purge the infection. 

    Releases Sep 30, 2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  3. Psycho Ripper

    WHY THIS

    Announced upcoming release from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    Psycho Ripper is a top down action shooter with modified conditional formations. Explore a randomization of challenges as you blast through a sentient crystal mine, confronting progressively baneful threats and equip unusual armaments, as you speculate further through a grand and unknown chaos.

    Releases November 2026ActionIndieSteam ↗

More from James H. Van der Meulen

Other recommendable Steam games by James H. Van der Meulen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Victim

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancient Adventure.

    A game like none other.  Victim invites you into the world of The Ominous Oppression.  A desolate landscape of horrors and mental anguish.  A place where only the mentally strong can survive and overcome the seemingly endless relentless trials of perpetuating devastation.   

    2022ActionAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. First Odium

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares RPG with Ancient Adventure.

    A psychological Turn Based Combat RPG Dungeon Crawling Horror

    2023RPGCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Crazy Brain

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Action with Ancient Adventure.

    Use perceptive skills and cognition to attempt to gather points, collect an accumulated a score and attempt to exit the stage without failing.

    2023Action3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Happy Mask

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ancient Adventure.

    This is what it feels like to be enslaved by your own mind. Toxic happiness and the brutal reality of a world that cannot be argued away. Step into the backward flipside of a perspective of being mocked and rediculed by blind observers that subscribe to the way of the mob.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Knowledge of Hermit

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancient Adventure.

    A puzzle solving, dungeon crawling, action adventure, role playing game.

    2023ActionAdventureRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. TVS Sample Box

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    An evolving app with random surprising updates.

    2023IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Drone Break

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Adventure.

    Run and Gun Roguelite where the goal is to upgrade each consecutive alien drone on death so the next can strive to become overpowered enough to escape the all consuming hive mind.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Dissociative

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Ancient Adventure. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ancient Adventure.

    Enter this dark fantasy nightmare adventure game. Spanning a vast unpredictable mindscape of over 2000 unique areas. Answer perplexing questions, gain abilities, power ups and transfer between dark and light worlds in this seemingly endless dreamscape.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG6.49 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ancient Adventure

How much does Ancient Adventure cost?
Ancient Adventure is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Ancient Adventure?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ancient Adventure are Warriors of the End, Masterstone, Technoidium.
Who developed Ancient Adventure?
Ancient Adventure was developed by James H. Van der Meulen and published by Trash Vomit 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 Ancient Adventure.

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