Games like Dead Spell
If Dead Spell is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ruine, The Spirit and Chest & Blade — 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 Dead Spell: Dead Spell is an open-world fantasy RPG focused on exploration, magic, progression, and adventure. Explore, craft powerful magical spells, complete epic quests, adventure into dangerous dungeons, battle bosses, and discover rare items!
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Steam players who put hours into Dead Spell 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.
Ruine
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Top pick for Dead Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
A sidescrolling fantasy RPG with roguelike elements and a souls-like setting. The world of Ruine is amorphous, its past long forgotten by most. Forests and ruins are inhabited by creatures that once lived and now refuse to die. Use what you can find or craft to eradicate them.
The Spirit
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Second-strongest match for Dead Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
The Spirit is a simple Action RPG with elements of old school dungeon crawlers. Creatures and Demons are entering through the Rift. The people of the realm need you, but so does your family.
Chest & Blade
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Third-strongest match for Dead Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
A dark fantasy idle RPG where your hero fights on its own. Play Warrior, Mage or Barbarian, farm bosses and chests for loot, then spend it on crafting, skills, runes and augments to push one act further.
Legends of Azamar
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Ranked #4 for Dead Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Early Access with Dead Spell.
Step into the world of Avendor and brave the ruins of Bar-Ulduun, the fabled lost city of the dwarves. Descend into ever-shifting depths, grow in power, and claim legendary loot as you uncover the legends of Azamar in this visceral loot-driven action RPG.
BreakEven - Idle
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Ranked #5 for Dead Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
Idle by default, deep when you lean in. BreakEven is an idle ARPG that embraces the grind, making sure it rewards you. Grind your way through a dark fantasy realm, get the best loot, and customize your Knight, Mage, Archer or Necromancer into an ever-expanding damage machine.
Hero Tale
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Ranked #6 for Dead Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
A relaxing auto-battler running in the background. Watch your combat experience grow and occasionally develop the massive skill tree and upgrade your equipment to explore secrets of the island.
Rune Knights
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Ranked #7 for Dead Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
Rune Knights is a cooperative action RPG focused on customization, crafting, and combat. Customize your character's aesthetics, stats, gameplay, and gear as you battle through procedurally generated and hand-crafted levels with your allies.
The Moon Hell
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Ranked #8 for Dead Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
Welcome to a world of darkness, where every step can be your last. Explore a stunning world filled with fear and horror, solve puzzles, and endure combat trials to become a hero and protect your world from darkness. Become a warrior ready to fight anything that stands in your way in this action RPG.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Spell at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Dead Spell on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead Spell.
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 Dead Spell on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Dead Spell.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Dead Spell on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead Spell.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Dead Spell on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dead Spell.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Dead Spell on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under Dead Spell on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Dead Spell.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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 and Casual with Dead Spell.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Spell.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Spell.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Spell.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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 Dead Spell.
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 Indie and RPG with Dead Spell.
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Frequently asked about Dead Spell
- How much does Dead Spell cost?
- Dead Spell is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Spell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Spell are Ruine, The Spirit, Chest & Blade.
- Who developed Dead Spell?
- Dead Spell was developed by Jesse Etzler.
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 Dead Spell.
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