Games like Pyre
If Pyre is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe, The Banner Saga 2 and Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its writing quality is exceptional, atmospheric and emotional. 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 →Pyre is a 2017 action RPG and visual novel developed and published by Supergiant Games. The game presents a branching narrative where players guide a party of exiles through mystical ritual competitions, combining character development with tactical combat and meaningful narrative choices. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and emotional, while players highlight the characters as delightful and interesting with compelling individual stories. The soundtrack receives consistent praise, with players calling the music a blessing to the ears. Currently available on Steam for $19.99 USD, the game holds a 90% positive rating from over 5,500 reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Pyre: Pyre is a party-based RPG from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. Lead your band of exiles to freedom through a series of mystical competitions in the Campaign, or challenge a friend to a fast-paced ritual showdown in the head-to-head Versus Mode.
Players who liked Pyre also play
Steam players who put hours into Pyre 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.
Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pyre.
Top pick for Pyre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Battle Chef Brigade pairs combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking in a hand drawn, fantasy adventure. Cook your way into the Brigade while subduing Victusia’s destructive monsters. Follow Mina and Thrash in the single-player campaign or challenge your friends in Local Multiplayer and Daily Cook-Offs.
The Banner Saga 2
WHY THIS
Shares character development and an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Second-strongest match for Pyre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pyre.
Third-strongest match for Pyre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Pyre.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
The Banner Saga 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Ranked #4 for Pyre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards.
Ash of Gods: Redemption
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Ranked #5 for Pyre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
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.
Wildermyth
WHY THIS
Shares tactical combat and an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Ranked #6 for Pyre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pyre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!
Tower of Time
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pyre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
A new kind of RPG awaits you. A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Now with RPGlite and Permadeath for fast-paced game.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Pyre
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Transistor
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pyre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Reviewers of Pyre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Pyre.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
The Banner Saga
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Reviewers of Pyre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Pyre.
Reviewers of Pyre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Rocket League®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pyre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pyre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Beastieball
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Reviewers of Pyre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
A turn-based volleyball RPG where you coach a sports team of Beasties! Your Beasties' relationships grow and change, unlocking new abilities and combo plays!
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Reviewers of Pyre cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pyre at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Pyre on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pyre.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pyre on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pyre on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pyre.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pyre on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pyre on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Pyre.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pyre.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pyre.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pyre.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Pyre.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Supergiant Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Supergiant Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Pyre.
Another title from Supergiant Games, the studio behind Pyre. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Hades II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Another title from Supergiant Games, the studio behind Pyre. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Transistor
WHY THIS
Another title from Supergiant Games, the studio behind Pyre. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pyre.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pyre.
Battle Chef Brigade pairs combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking in a hand drawn, fantasy adventure. Cook your way into the Brigade while subduing Victusia’s destructive monsters. Follow Mina and Thrash in the single-player campaign or challenge your friends in Local Multiplayer and Daily Cook-Offs.
The Banner Saga 2
WHY THIS
Shares character development and an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pyre.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Pyre.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Wildermyth
WHY THIS
Shares tactical combat and an atmospheric mood with Pyre.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!
Tower of Time
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Pyre.
A new kind of RPG awaits you. A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Now with RPGlite and Permadeath for fast-paced game.
Frequently asked about Pyre
- Does Pyre run on Steam Deck?
- Pyre 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 Pyre cost?
- Pyre is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Pyre have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pyre supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Pyre?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pyre are Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe, The Banner Saga 2, Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery.
- Who developed Pyre?
- Pyre was developed by Supergiant Games.
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 Pyre.
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