Games like Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
If Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is your kind of game, the closest matches are Neverscape, The Tainted Lands and Passageway of the Ancients — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its operatic and choral soundtrack, rich renaissance inspired worldbuilding and atmospheric. 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 Masquerada: Songs and Shadows: Masquerada is a single-player tactical RPG set in a Renaissance-inspired city of magic, where real-time combat can be paused to set up elemental combos powered by Venetian-styled masks. Come for gorgeous hand-drawn art; stay for the rich lore & a thoughtful, fully-voiced tale of intrigue & tragedy.
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Neverscape
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Top pick for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
A hand-drawn, tactical RPG, with a deeply personal story set in a kingdom inspired by Serbian mythology.
The Tainted Lands
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Second-strongest match for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Tainted Lands is a turn-based tactical RPG in an eldritch fantasy setting. Lead a band of adventurers to traverse a forbidden wilderness where ancient horrors lie in wait. Recruit companions, scavenge relics, and face the Outer Gods.
Passageway of the Ancients
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Third-strongest match for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Inspired by classic CRPGs from the ’90s and early 2000s, Passageway of the Ancients transports players to the world of Aieryon – the galaxy’s sole remaining magical planet – where they explore the city of Ithgar to solve their parents’ murder.
Ash of Gods: Redemption
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Ranked #4 for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.
DicePool
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Ranked #5 for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Roll the dice as you travel through the world of Dysepool in DicePool! Set off with a party of adventurers, each with their own role and playstyle. Mix and match to discover your story and make everyone's wish come true!
NO KING IN HELL
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Ranked #6 for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
A turn-based strategy RPG with elevation-based maps and monster raising. Weaken and seize enemies to control them that same turn. Assign classes, raise, evolve, and fuse monsters to build squads. Manage invasion and defense forces as rival factions compete for control of the continent.
Strength & Virtue: Trials of the Romer
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Ranked #7 for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
A 2.5D atmospheric survival RPG with active-time battles in which you play as a Nomad of the wasteland. After he saves a city-dweller, he begins to question everything he once believed. There is no easy path here, only a brutal landscape that only the most resilient can survive.
Flames Betwixt
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Ranked #8 for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
An isometric co-op RPG where you choose two professions, but bring only eight skills. Gather a party of up to eight, with friends or recruited heroes under your command. Prepare in town, then venture beyond the outposts into an unknown world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Masquerada: Songs and Shadows at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Masquerada: Songs and Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Masquerada: Songs and Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Masquerada: Songs and Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Masquerada: Songs and Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Masquerada: Songs and Shadows on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Masquerada: Songs and Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Masquerada: Songs and Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Masquerada: Songs and Shadows.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
- Does Masquerada: Songs and Shadows run on Steam Deck?
- Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Masquerada: Songs and Shadows cost?
- Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Masquerada: Songs and Shadows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Masquerada: Songs and Shadows are Neverscape, The Tainted Lands, Passageway of the Ancients.
- Who developed Masquerada: Songs and Shadows?
- Masquerada: Songs and Shadows was developed by Witching Hour Studios and published by Ysbryd Games.
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