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Games like A Short Quest

If A Short Quest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, Death's Door and Book of Demons — 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 A Short Quest: Explore a hand-crafted world, overcome brutally challenging combat, and restore order to a broken kingdom. Discover many unique weapons, tools, spells, and secrets in this short game inspired by old school action RPGs.

ActionIndieAdventureRPGWindowsby Silent Moon
A Short Quest — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into A Short Quest 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. Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for A Short Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Short Quest.

    From games studio A44, makers of Ashen, comes an explosive Souls-lite, where Gods and guns collide in a battle for the future of humanity.

    2024ActionAdventureRPG11.24 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Death's Door

    WHY THIS

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

    Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Book of Demons

    WHY THIS

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

    Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for A Short Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with A Short Quest.

    A new legacy begins...

    2021ActionRPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Grim Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for A Short Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Short Quest.

    Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Into the Necrovale

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for A Short Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Short Quest.

    Into the Necrovale is an Action RPG in which you collect powerful items that interact with one another. You must be clever with your build if you hope to pierce the mysteries and dangers of the Necrovale, where a thousand generations of miscreants and criminals have been banished.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vaporum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for A Short Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Short Quest.

    Vaporum is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Stranded in the middle of an ocean, in front of a gigantic tower, the hero has to find out what the place is, what happened there, and most importantly, who he is.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. FATE: Reawakened

    WHY THIS

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

    Reawaken the critically acclaimed FATE games like never before! Play all 4 classic dungeon crawler titles with enhanced graphics as you battle through challenging procedurally generated dungeons, learn powerful spells, and fish to your heart’s content. Are you up to the task? Your FATE awaits!

    2025ActionAdventureRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 A Short Quest.

    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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Short Quest.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Short Quest.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Short Quest.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Death's Door

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with A Short Quest.

    Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with A Short Quest.

    A new legacy begins...

    2021ActionRPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. FATE: Reawakened

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with A Short Quest.

    Reawaken the critically acclaimed FATE games like never before! Play all 4 classic dungeon crawler titles with enhanced graphics as you battle through challenging procedurally generated dungeons, learn powerful spells, and fish to your heart’s content. Are you up to the task? Your FATE awaits!

    2025ActionAdventureRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about A Short Quest

What games are most similar to A Short Quest?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Short Quest are Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, Death's Door, Book of Demons.
Who developed A Short Quest?
A Short Quest was developed by Silent Moon.

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 A Short Quest.

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