Games like Novis
If Novis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Black Equation, INFERIUS and The Flesh Beneath — 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 Novis: You are an Umbra Corporation operator connected to an Avatar on Earth-01 as part of an inter-reality experiment. Build a unique character by combining abilities with dozens of items and spells, interact with the inhabitants of Earth-01, and discover why you ended up in this particular universe.
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Steam players who put hours into Novis 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.
Black Equation
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Top pick for Novis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Novis.
A dark fantasy interactive book — a personal, choice-driven story born from depression, built entirely from words.
INFERIUS
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Second-strongest match for Novis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Novis.
Descend through nine dominions of Hell in a first-person horror roguelike deckbuilder. Wield Major Arcana tarot cards, upgrade your deck between deaths, use your lantern to survive the dark, and defeat each ruler before your sanity breaks.
The Flesh Beneath
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Third-strongest match for Novis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A dark-fantasy card-roguelike about giving the cathedral below what it asks for — one piece of yourself at a time. Sever your own flesh for power. Press blood-stones into your cards. Permadeath. Every name is remembered.
Silent Mainland
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Ranked #4 for Novis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Silent Mainland is a roguelike deckbuilder based on movement and grid mechanics. Players engage in tactical battles on a vast 5x12 battlefield. Facing waves of oncoming monsters, use card-driven movement and positional control to defeat foes in dynamic formations.
Tavrik
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Ranked #5 for Novis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Novis.
A hex-grid deckbuilding roguelite where every card you play reshapes the land beneath your feet. Lay roads, raise bridges, outrun storms and wolves, and push one more hex before your energy runs out. The journey is the dungeon.
Chrono Seoul
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Ranked #6 for Novis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Chrono Seoul’s unique Turn Table combat lets you use the hero’s mechanical arm and future-reading ability to predict enemy actions and respond with precise attacks, defense, and evasion. Each run offers new patterns, and at every chapter’s end, an Existence corrupted Seoul awaits.
Text Dungeon: The Ring of Life
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Ranked #7 for Novis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Novis.
No graphics, No tiles. Just text-RPG adventure! Explore a shifting labyrinth, regain the Ring of Life from the wizard Shingor. Classic roguelike-style messages guide your journey, with narrative scenes evoking the spirit of MUDs and gamebooks. Death is permanent. Every run brings new discoveries.
Crownbreakers
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Ranked #8 for Novis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Tyrants keep the magical city of Cascade in a chokehold. They grow fat by grinding everyone else's soul into profit. ✊ENOUGH! Crash into their districts and build your deck as you push forward. Use your champions and cards to pummel some demonic billionaires in this turn-based card-game brawler.
Free alternatives
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. Shares Adventure with Novis.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Novis.
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 Adventure with Novis.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Adventure with Novis.
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.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Novis.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Novis.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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. Shares Adventure with Novis.
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.
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- What games are most similar to Novis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Novis are Black Equation, INFERIUS, The Flesh Beneath.
- Who developed Novis?
- Novis was developed by Umbra Team.
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 Novis.
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