Games like Ashes of Darkness
If Ashes of Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mouseward, REVENGE CRYSTAL and Emberville — 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 Ashes of Darkness: Ashes of Darkness is a 2D Soulslike Action RPG set in a dark medieval world. Master fast-paced combat, defeat powerful enemies, collect rare artifacts, and forge your own build as you grow stronger and challenge deadly bosses.
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Mouseward
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Top pick for Ashes of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Take up your sword and uncover the secrets of a cursed kingdom in this soulslike collectathon. Awaken as a Royal Mouse Guard, master combat, defeat foes and search for celestial fragments to restore a once great kingdom.
REVENGE CRYSTAL
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Second-strongest match for Ashes of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Awaken in a fallen knight’s body, kept alive by a mysterious living crystal. REVENGE CRYSTAL combines top-down Soulslike combat with exploration across a ruined world of interconnected paths and elemental magic. You are not the knight—you are the will driving him.
Emberville
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Third-strongest match for Ashes of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Awaken with no memories inside the Vitromotus, a vast underground world created as a magical dungeon where death no longer lasts. Explore its depths, battle dangerous creatures, rescue survivors, and rebuild the ruined town of Emberville while uncovering the truth behind this prison.
Bonehold
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Ranked #4 for Ashes of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Dungeon Crawler with elements of rogue-like and ARPG games. Kill hordes of enemies, duel mighty bosses, and acquire legendary loot!
Dinoblade
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Ranked #5 for Ashes of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
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.
Diablo® IV
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Ranked #6 for Ashes of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
Winds Of Arcana: Ruination
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Ranked #7 for Ashes of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Discover the secrets of a sundered world as you help Aryn save his comrades in this story-rich, fully-voiced, 2.5D action-platformer. Fight terrible dangers and explore ancient mysteries as Aryn uncovers the forces that forge his destiny.
Monkey King Simulator -- Chapter Huaguo Mountain
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Ranked #8 for Ashes of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Stories revised from Journey to the West. Souls-like combats; Powerful Bosses; Hundreds of different Weapon&Armors; Super big map to explore; Nothing special? You cut me!
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The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ashes of Darkness.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ashes of Darkness.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ashes of Darkness.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
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 RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
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.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Ashes of Darkness.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Ashes of Darkness
- What games are most similar to Ashes of Darkness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ashes of Darkness are Mouseward, REVENGE CRYSTAL, Emberville.
- Who developed Ashes of Darkness?
- Ashes of Darkness was developed by Chaka.
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 Ashes of Darkness.
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