Games like Ethral
If Ethral is your kind of game, the closest matches are Echoes of the Cove, Grendel's Cave and Hack and Slime — 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 Ethral: Play as a young hero in a retro pixel top-down adventure: explore the land of Ethral, find secrets, conquer dark dungeons, and collect shards to restore the Ethral Pendant to defeat the Pirate King!
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Steam players who put hours into Ethral 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.
Echoes of the Cove
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Top pick for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Your father's diary leads you to The Cove, a dying coastal town haunted by monsters and buried secrets. Battle corrupted creatures, rebuild the community, and follow his trail to the truth in this 2D action RPG.
Grendel's Cave
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Second-strongest match for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Grendel’s Cave; a top-down 2D pixel-art adventure game set in the Old English text Beowulf, Norse mythology, and the historical early 6th century Scandinavian warrior culture. Create a Thane, kill monsters, increase value, stats and magic, collect items and become powerful enough to kill Grendel!
Hack and Slime
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Third-strongest match for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.
The Slormancer
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Ranked #4 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Fight hordes of enemies led by The Slormancer, an evil warlock from the past, in an absurd yet epic Action RPG! Experience fast-paced gameplay, loads of shiny loot, tons of collectibles, countless hours of content, and carefully crafted pixel art.
Wyvia
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Ranked #5 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Wyvia is an open world 3D action RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Save your world from a monstrous invasion. Choose from 10 classes customizing them with a robust cross-class skill system, craft and upgrade tons of weapons, explore dungeons battling a variety of enemies, and defeat terrifying bosses!
The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story™
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Ranked #6 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
From Digital Sun, creators of Moonlighter, The Mageseeker is an action RPG in the League of Legends universe. Play as Sylas, a mage now freed from years in captivity. Wield the chains that once bound you and liberate Demacia from the Mageseekers' tyranny.
1428: Shadows over Silesia
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Ranked #7 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Medieval Europe is in the middle of religious upheaval and many a preacher predict the imminent end of the world. Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy story with true historical events in the background. You'll be facing intricate puzzles, challenging battles and cunning stealth.
Hammerwatch II
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Ranked #8 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Gather your heroes and journey beyond the dungeons of Castle Hammerwatch to explore a pixelated world like never before. Aid King Roland’s resistance while helping villagers along the way. Battle beasts, finish off hordes of the undead, and face the forces of evil.
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 Ethral.
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 Action and Adventure with Ethral.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ethral.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Ethral.
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 Action and Indie with Ethral.
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 Ethral.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Ethral
- What games are most similar to Ethral?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ethral are Echoes of the Cove, Grendel's Cave, Hack and Slime.
- Who developed Ethral?
- Ethral was developed by Vessel Interactive Studio.
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