Games like Ethral
If Ethral is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pact Warden, Ziii and Destiny Spire — 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!
Players who liked Ethral also play
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.
Pact Warden
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Top pick for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
As a Marchwarden, you travel the southern roads to protect pilgrims and travelers. You will fight multi-phased bosses, shape the storylines of characters, and explore an interconnected world.
Ziii
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Second-strongest match for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Ziii is a retro fantasy action-adventure game. Sail between countless islands, exploring their various elemental lands in top-down and sidescroll styles. Plunder their dungeons for powerful items and precious relics. Ziii is a treasure-hunter, looking to gain a treasure vault value of 100,000.
Destiny Spire
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Third-strongest match for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ethral.
Destiny Spire is a party-based RPG with active time battles inspired by the classics. NOT YOUR TRADITIONAL TURN BASED COMBAT: The battle continues even while you select your actions, you'll need reflexes and wits to survive. Pick your party and set off on a retro, non-hand holdy adventure!
Lunar Eclipse ~ Vol. 0
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Ranked #4 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Tread lightly or perish! In this pixel style Action RPG, slash and dodge through grueling foes as a dreary elven swordsman and a conniving feline assassin, discover hidden secrets in expansive environments, and survive in a world healing from war.
Echoes of Mystralia
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Ranked #5 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Echoes of Mystralia is an action-heavy spellcrafting ARPG roguelite, where rapid combat meets deep customization. Craft your own spells, unlock new combinations, fight epic bosses, and discover a narrative-rich world that never plays the same twice.
Tales of Acilain
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Ranked #6 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
Explore the ruins of Acilain in this dark top-down action RPG. After losing your arm to the Dark Man, harness spectral energy to manifest a phantom limb. Defeat powerful generals, absorb their spirit essence, and solve intricate Zelda-style puzzles to break a 100-year-old blood curse.
Overleveled
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Ranked #7 for Ethral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ethral.
A fast paced rogue-lite RPG where you create overpowered builds while exploring an expansive dungeon filled with dangerous monsters and powerful artifacts. Play solo or with up to three friends. Every run earns permanent gear upgrades. You'll need everything you have to beat... Doug
Hack and Slime
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Ranked #8 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.
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 Pact Warden, Ziii, Destiny Spire.
- Who developed Ethral?
- Ethral was developed by Vessel Interactive Studio.
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 Ethral.
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