Games like The Necessary Evil
If The Necessary Evil is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tales of Tarium: Awakening from the Ashes, Spelldrifter and New Arc Line — 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 The Necessary Evil: The Necessary Evil is a tactical RPG about making difficult decisions and preparing for the unpredictable. Lead "volunteers" into the dark and rotting recesses of the collective unconscious, colonized and industrialized and plundered for profit. Every decision matters, and every choice has a cost.
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Steam players who put hours into The Necessary Evil 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.
Tales of Tarium: Awakening from the Ashes
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Top pick for The Necessary Evil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Explore this dark medieval world while fighting mythological creatures. Throughout betrayal, nervous battles and hidden truths decide whether to defend the honor of high members of the church, help a rebellious group of cultists or embrace on a quest to reveal the secrets of this land.
Spelldrifter
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Second-strongest match for The Necessary Evil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Spelldrifter combines the puzzle-like positional tactics of a turn-based RPG with the customizability and replayability of a collectible card game. The result: a hybrid, wherein players must juggle the resources at their disposal using both time and space.
New Arc Line
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Third-strongest match for The Necessary Evil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Take a stand in the eternal conflict between Arcane Magic and Steampunk Revolution and tip the uneasy balance between sorcery, elves, dwarves and mysterious monsters on one side and steampunk gadgets, zeppelins, and tesla guns on the other in this single-player, party-based, story-rich RPG.
Alvora Tactics
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Ranked #4 for The Necessary Evil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Alvora Tactics is an indie Tactics RPG that combines strategic combat with immersive exploration. Explore and conquer Great Serpent Alvora with your own customizable band of warriors!
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
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Ranked #5 for The Necessary Evil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Voidspire Tactics
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Ranked #6 for The Necessary Evil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
An indie turn-based Tactics RPG with a heavy emphasis on exploration, character progression, and highly tactical combat. Create your own deeply customizable party of Warriors, Sorcerers, and Shiftcloaks to take on the Spire!
Together in Battle
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Ranked #7 for The Necessary Evil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Manage a team of fantasy gladiators in this Fire Emblem-style strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, and emergent relationship-building. Uncover a sinister conspiracy; fight deep turn-based tactical battles; watch your characters grow together!
Shardpunk
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Ranked #8 for The Necessary Evil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
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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.
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 Indie with The Necessary Evil.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Necessary Evil.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Necessary Evil.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Necessary Evil.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Together in Battle
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
Manage a team of fantasy gladiators in this Fire Emblem-style strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, and emergent relationship-building. Uncover a sinister conspiracy; fight deep turn-based tactical battles; watch your characters grow together!
Shardpunk
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with The Necessary Evil.
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Frequently asked about The Necessary Evil
- What games are most similar to The Necessary Evil?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Necessary Evil are Tales of Tarium: Awakening from the Ashes, Spelldrifter, New Arc Line.
- Who developed The Necessary Evil?
- The Necessary Evil was developed by VIl.
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