Games like Portalborn
If Portalborn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Devil Spire Falls, Trawel and Once upon a Dungeon II — 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 Portalborn: Explore or forge your own portal-born worlds, blend powerful classes, slay strange monsters, and loot your way through a retro text RPG built for endless adventure.
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Devil Spire Falls
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Top pick for Portalborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
The open-world action-RPG, where you can do anything, of your dreams… as if it came out 30 years ago!
Trawel
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Portalborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Early Access with Portalborn.
Trawel is a historically-inaccurate open world text adventure RPG. Created as a re-imagining of old-school calculator and early command line games, it eschews their limitations but attempts to capture their spirit, and bring it in line with modern quality of life standards with a GUI.
Once upon a Dungeon II
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Third-strongest match for Portalborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Portalborn.
Explore an open world, descend into dark dungeons, defeat challenging creatures and collect unique loot in this hardcore traditional roguelike game.
Sil and the Fading World
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Ranked #4 for Portalborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Portalborn.
Face MMO Raidbosses ALONE! Uncover your past in Aritas, a sinister world ravaged by ancient Gods of the Realm Below. This ARPG features 9 class specializations, hundreds of unique items, a vast array of skills, complex character progression, and intense Raidboss encounters.
Beyond the Map
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Ranked #5 for Portalborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Emberville
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Ranked #6 for Portalborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
Awaken with no memories inside the Vitromotus, a vast underground world created as a magical dungeon where death no longer lasts. Explore its depths, battle dangerous creatures, rescue survivors, and rebuild the ruined town of Emberville while uncovering the truth behind this prison.
Glintseeker Island
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Ranked #7 for Portalborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Portalborn.
Descend into mysterious caves with countless treasures to excavate in a mining exploration adventure. Upgrade your gear, fight bosses, uncover secrets and save the island from an ancient threat below!
Into the Necrovale
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Ranked #8 for Portalborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
Into the Necrovale is an Action RPG in which you collect powerful items that interact with one another. You must be clever with your build if you hope to pierce the mysteries and dangers of the Necrovale, where a thousand generations of miscreants and criminals have been banished.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Portalborn at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~41% under Portalborn on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Portalborn.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~47% under Portalborn on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portalborn.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~88% under Portalborn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~65% under Portalborn on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portalborn.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~41% under Portalborn on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Portalborn.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~41% under Portalborn on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portalborn.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
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Priced ~56% under Portalborn on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Portalborn.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~77% under Portalborn on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Portalborn.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Early Access with Portalborn.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Portalborn.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
SCP – Containment Breach
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Unturned
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Path of Exile
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portalborn.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Frequently asked about Portalborn
- How much does Portalborn cost?
- Portalborn is listed on Steam at 8.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Portalborn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Portalborn are Devil Spire Falls, Trawel, Once upon a Dungeon II.
- Who developed Portalborn?
- Portalborn was developed by TheHand.
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 Portalborn.
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