Games like Ashes of Kardoria
If Ashes of Kardoria is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tales of Anturia: Farathan, Asterfel and Inquisitor — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Ashes of Kardoria: A dark choice-driven RPG where moral decisions shape your path. Face a brutal island torn by plague, hunger, and a growing orc threat. Pick a faction, hone your skills, battle unique bosses, and fight for a future worth paying for.
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Steam players who put hours into Ashes of Kardoria 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.
Tales of Anturia: Farathan
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Top pick for Ashes of Kardoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Ashes of Kardoria.
Explore, fight and discover the great conspiracy lingering in the shadows. In this third-person RPG. Pick one of three sides and enjoy the open world.
Asterfel
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Second-strongest match for Ashes of Kardoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Ashes of Kardoria.
Welcome to Asterfel, an island shaped by ambition, conflict, and something far older stirring beneath the surface. Encounter three factions, discover forgotten history, and shape the island’s future. Will you thrive, survive, or witness the end of an era?
Inquisitor
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Third-strongest match for Ashes of Kardoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Ashes of Kardoria.
Action-oriented combat with a deep and involving tale of betrayal, torture, madness, and infernal damnation. If a gritty old-school open-ended isometric RPG is what you looking for, look no further. Inquisitor will provide you with hours of gameplay and a dark, involving story.
Vampyr
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Ranked #4 for Ashes of Kardoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Ashes of Kardoria.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Lawless Lands
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Ranked #5 for Ashes of Kardoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of Kardoria.
Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
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Ranked #6 for Ashes of Kardoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ashes of Kardoria.
Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
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Ranked #7 for Ashes of Kardoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of Kardoria.
Drova is an Action-RPG that marries the dark grim tones of its genre with the mysticism of Celtic mythology. Encounter a society where ancient restless spirits and divided factions battle for dominance. Uncover forgotten abilities and unravel the secrets of a past shrouded in mystery.
Rise of the Ronin
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Ranked #8 for Ashes of Kardoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ashes of Kardoria.
Embark on an epic journey across war-torn 19th-century Japan in this open-world action RPG from Team NINJA, the veteran studio behind "Nioh" and "NINJA GAIDEN."
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ashes of Kardoria.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ashes of Kardoria.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of Kardoria.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of Kardoria.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ashes of Kardoria.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of Kardoria.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ashes of Kardoria.
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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Vampyr
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Ashes of Kardoria.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ashes of Kardoria.
Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ashes of Kardoria.
Drova is an Action-RPG that marries the dark grim tones of its genre with the mysticism of Celtic mythology. Encounter a society where ancient restless spirits and divided factions battle for dominance. Uncover forgotten abilities and unravel the secrets of a past shrouded in mystery.
Frequently asked about Ashes of Kardoria
- What games are most similar to Ashes of Kardoria?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ashes of Kardoria are Tales of Anturia: Farathan, Asterfel, Inquisitor.
- Who developed Ashes of Kardoria?
- Ashes of Kardoria was developed by Ashes of Kardoria.
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 Ashes of Kardoria.
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