Games like What Was Promised
If What Was Promised is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drifter Dynasty, Dark Deity and Prophecy of Ashen — 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 What Was Promised: From a relaxing cruise, to a turn based RPG, conquer the demons of thy heart and break through with will power. Former Detective Spring, finds himself stuck on a cruise with other people just as confused as him. Find your destination and break through the demons getting in the way.
Players who liked What Was Promised also play
Steam players who put hours into What Was Promised 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.
Drifter Dynasty
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Top pick for What Was Promised fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
Drifter Dynasty is a strategy role-playing game featuring thrilling brawls and tense duels. A lone drifter meets a willful ranger at the crossroads of a political power struggle. The stage is set for a multi-generational Western epic. Will you saddle up for a new frontier?
Dark Deity
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Second-strongest match for What Was Promised fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Prophecy of Ashen
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Third-strongest match for What Was Promised fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
Prophecy of Ashen: a dark fantasy tactical CRPG. Be a secret messenger between the Hall's judgment and the Ashborne's vengeance. Recruit allies, use terrain and magic in turn-based combat. Your choices reshape Rattalan: uphold order or ignite destruction.
Aether & Iron
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Ranked #4 for What Was Promised fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
Immerse yourself in this Decopunk Narrative RPG set in an alternate 1930s where anti-gravitational technology has taken cars, roads, and even New York City into the sky. Muster a crew, master tactical turn-based combat, and unravel the dark secrets lurking beneath the floating metropolis.
Cell Command
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Ranked #5 for What Was Promised fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
Persona 4 Golden
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Ranked #6 for What Was Promised fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with What Was Promised.
A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
Persona 3 Reload
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Ranked #7 for What Was Promised fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with What Was Promised.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
Tactical Breach Wizards
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Ranked #8 for What Was Promised fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
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.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Was Promised.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Was Promised.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 What Was Promised.
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 What Was Promised.
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.
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 What Was Promised.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Was Promised.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Dark Deity
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Cell Command
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
Persona 4 Golden
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with What Was Promised.
A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
Persona 3 Reload
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with What Was Promised.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with What Was Promised.
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.
Frequently asked about What Was Promised
- What games are most similar to What Was Promised?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Was Promised are Drifter Dynasty, Dark Deity, Prophecy of Ashen.
- Who developed What Was Promised?
- What Was Promised was developed by Haru and published by Anastasis Studio.
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 What Was Promised.
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