Games like A Short Quest
If A Short Quest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ignite the Depths, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn and Death's Door — 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 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.
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Ignite the Depths
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Top pick for A Short Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Short Quest.
Ignite the Depths is an atmospheric dark-fantasy dungeon crawler set within a sprawling, hand-crafted labyrinth. Descend into the darkness alone, or unite with up to four players in co-op. Will you conquer the Abyss?
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
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Second-strongest match 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.
Death's Door
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Third-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.
Book of Demons
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Ranked #4 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!
Dinoblade
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Ranked #5 for A Short Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Short Quest.
Dinoblade is an intense action RPG set in a prehistoric world forever changed by a cataclysmic event. Step into the role of a young Spinosaurus, wielding a colossal Great Sword. Confront rival dinosaurs, some armed with weapons of their own, all in a desperate fight to prevent a looming extinction.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
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Ranked #6 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...
Grim Dawn
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Ranked #7 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.
Into the Necrovale
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Ranked #8 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.
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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 A Short Quest.
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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 A Short Quest.
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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 A Short Quest.
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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 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.
STRAFTAT
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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.
The Looker
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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.
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 A Short Quest.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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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.).
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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 Ignite the Depths, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, Death's Door.
- Who developed A Short Quest?
- A Short Quest was developed by Silent Moon.
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