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Games like Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening

If Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition, Tyranny and Dragon Age™ Inquisition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, dark and epic. 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.

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About Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening: From the Makers of the Best RPG of 2009, Dragon Age™: Origins, comes the first official expansion pack. For centuries, the Grey Wardens—the ancient order of guardians, sworn to unite and defend the lands—have been battling the darkspawn forces.

2010RPGMetacritic 82Windowsby BioWare
Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening — Steam game cover
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Moral dilemmas feel more grey than everNew region expands lore on arch demons and blightsSentient darkspawn architect offers rare philosophical quandaryContemplativeDarkEpic

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Steam players who put hours into Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening 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.

  1. Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a grim mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Top pick for Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

    2010RPG7.49 USDSteam ↗
  2. Tyranny

    WHY THIS

    Shares a grim mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Second-strongest match for Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.

    2016AdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Dragon Age™ Inquisition

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Winner of over 130 Game of the Year awards, discover the definitive Dragon Age: Inquisition experience. The Game of the Year Edition includes the critically acclaimed game, all three official add-ons - Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser - and more.

    2020ActionStrategyAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Avaria: Iron Rule

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    An isometric, party-based, real-time with pause RPG exploring the taboos of colonialism, power, punishment and the rule of law. Set in a rich fantasy world, Avaria: Iron Rule offers complex choices, deep dialogues and intense tactical battles inspired by classics of the genre.

  5. Pillars of Eternity

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Ranked #5 for Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.

    2015RPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Ranked #6 for Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Rediscover the beloved RPG classic— now enhanced for modern adventurers! Gather your party of heroes and continue the legendary adventure in this story-rich fantasy epic where every choice matters.

    2013AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Ranked #7 for Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Black Geyser is an isometric, party-based fantasy RPG inspired by genre classics. Recruit characters with unique personalities and explore a land ravaged by civil war and a mysterious curse of greed. Your choices, good or evil, will decide the fate of the Kingdom of Isilmerald.

    2022IndieRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Drakensang

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Drakensang is a third-person party-based RPG based on the pen & paper role-play rules of The Dark Eye. Drakensang is the first PC game for over 10 years to be based on Germany's most successful and popular role-play system. Drakensang builds on the pen & paper rules as applied in version 4.0.

    2009RPG9.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
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    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from BioWare

Other recommendable Steam games by BioWare, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BioWare, the studio behind Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    The Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition includes single-player base content and over 40 DLC from the highly acclaimed Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 games, including promo weapons, armors, and packs — remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD.

    2021ActionRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Dragon Age™: The Veilguard

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BioWare, the studio behind Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Unite the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single-player RPG.

    2024ActionStrategyAdventure20.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Another title from BioWare, the studio behind Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?

    2009AdventureRPG2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a grim mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Another title from BioWare, the studio behind Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

    2010RPG7.49 USDSteam ↗
  5. Dragon Age™ Inquisition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BioWare, the studio behind Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Winner of over 130 Game of the Year awards, discover the definitive Dragon Age: Inquisition experience. The Game of the Year Edition includes the critically acclaimed game, all three official add-ons - Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser - and more.

    2020ActionStrategyAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BioWare, the studio behind Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Return to the Mass Effect universe & lead the first humans in Andromeda on a desperate search for our new home.

    2020ActionRPG7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Mass Effect (2007)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Another title from BioWare, the studio behind Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

    2008ActionRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Mass Effect 2 (2010 Edition)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Another title from BioWare, the studio behind Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening. Shares RPG with Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

    Are you prepared to lose everything to save the galaxy? You'll need to be, Commander Shepard. It's time to bring together your greatest allies and recruit the galaxy's fighting elite to continue the resistance against the invading Reapers.

    2010RPGDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening

Does Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening work on Steam Deck?
Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
What games are most similar to Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening are Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition, Tyranny, Dragon Age™ Inquisition.
Who developed Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening?
Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening was developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.

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 Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening.

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