Games like Shakes and Fidget
If Shakes and Fidget is your kind of game, the closest matches are Black Desert, Ragnarok: The New World and Scapewatch: Idle MMO — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive idle loop, humorous quest text and challenging. 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 →Shakes and Fidget is a free-to-play fantasy RPG that blends idle progression mechanics with satirical humor. Players create and customize characters, following a quest log through procedurally generated dungeons while optimizing gear. The game features asynchronous multiplayer through guild-based PvP arenas, where players compete for rankings. Currency gating and idle progression allow for short-burst sessions, though the content library is massive in scope. Reviewers highlight the humorous quest text as a standout feature, while players describe the idle loop as addictive and rewarding without pressure to spend money. The game holds an 84% positive rating from over 6,400 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Shakes and Fidget: Shakes & Fidget is a hilarious fantasy role-playing satire and at the same time, an award-winning RPG! Sounds crazy? With over 50 million enthusiastic players, it ranks among the most celebrated online role-playing games worldwide!
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Steam players who put hours into Shakes and Fidget 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.
Black Desert
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shakes and Fidget.
Top pick for Shakes and Fidget fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shakes and Fidget.
Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!
Ragnarok: The New World
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shakes and Fidget fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Shakes and Fidget.
Ragnarok: The New World is an open-world adventure officially licensed by Gravity, featuring the classic art style rebuilt with next-gen engine. All 6 classes return to Midgard, along with exciting new ones. Tame MVPs, run stalls, customize outfits... Let's begin a brand-new journey together!
Scapewatch: Idle MMO
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shakes and Fidget fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Shakes and Fidget.
28 skills. Three combat styles. Clans, raids, hiscores, pets, capes. Set up your queue, close the tab, come back richer. Scapewatch is the idle MMO for people who actually like the grind.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
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Ranked #4 for Shakes and Fidget fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Shakes and Fidget.
Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shakes and Fidget fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Shakes and Fidget.
Join over 30 million adventurers worldwide and take part in an epic and ever-changing FINAL FANTASY. Experience an unforgettable story, exhilarating battles, and a myriad of captivating environments to explore.
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shakes and Fidget fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Shakes and Fidget.
SHROUD OF THE AVATAR: FORSAKEN VIRTUES is a multiplayer fantasy RPG that sets the player on a path filled with peril and tough choices as they explore a persistent realm that can be shared with other Avatars. It is the spiritual successor to Richard Garriott’s Ultima games.
Agents of Aggro City Online
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shakes and Fidget fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shakes and Fidget.
Agents of Aggro City Online is a community based online game and adventure. Help your city get rid of the aggro levels and build your agency by defeating aggromites and researching new ways of keeping city aggro levels at minimum levels.
Guild Wars 2®
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shakes and Fidget.
Ranked #8 for Shakes and Fidget fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Shakes and Fidget.
Guild Wars 2 is an award-winning online roleplaying game with fast-paced action combat, deep character customization, and no subscription fee required. Choose from an arsenal of professions and weapons, explore a vast open world, compete in PVP modes and more. Join over 16 million players now!
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Frequently asked about Shakes and Fidget
- Does Shakes and Fidget run on Steam Deck?
- Shakes and Fidget is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Shakes and Fidget free to play?
- Yes — Shakes and Fidget is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Shakes and Fidget have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shakes and Fidget supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to Shakes and Fidget?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shakes and Fidget are Black Desert, Ragnarok: The New World, Scapewatch: Idle MMO.
- Who developed Shakes and Fidget?
- Shakes and Fidget was developed by Playa Games GmbH.
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 Shakes and Fidget.
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