Games like Shadows of Beginnings
If Shadows of Beginnings is your kind of game, the closest matches are AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound, Blood & Dungeon and Wyrd — 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 Shadows of Beginnings: A dark fantasy action RPG set sixty years after the Great Eclipse, when the sun died for three days. Enter ruined Novum as an Outsider, fight and gather beyond its walls, and rebuild the town. Seamlessly shifting between isometric and over-the-shoulder perspectives.
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AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound
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Top pick for Shadows of Beginnings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Shadows of Beginnings.
A ghost girl recovers her true self and her bonds with her schoolmates through her adventures in DRIFTWORLD. This game is the consecutive mixture of ARPG and tactical RPG in roguelike dungeons with the seamless, rapid and stress-free gameplay.
Blood & Dungeon
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Second-strongest match for Shadows of Beginnings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
Escape the captivity of a blood-soaked, dark, and ruined dungeon; evade deadly traps, fight relentless enemies to survive, and determine your destiny
Wyrd
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Third-strongest match for Shadows of Beginnings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadows of Beginnings.
Wyrd is an action RPG currently being developed in Unreal Engine. You will slay monsters, cast spells, solve mysteries, delve the deepest dungeons and soar astride dragons throughout the world.
World of ClaudeCraft
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Ranked #4 for Shadows of Beginnings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
A classic-style micro-MMO: nine vanilla-flavored classes, real classic-era combat formulas, a hand-built quest world across three zones, 5-player elite dungeons, a ranked 1v1 arena, parties, trading and duels — on an authoritative server with persistent characters.
Unwanted Dungeon
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Ranked #5 for Shadows of Beginnings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Shadows of Beginnings.
A dark fantasy survivorslike with classic ARPG essence: Deep builds, rare loot, NPC shops, shared storage, and a semi-procedural dungeon with bosses, events, and curses. Fast-paced roguelite action meets old-school dungeon crawling. Every lost run is a new idea. Welcome to Unwanted Dungeon!
Kazfall
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Ranked #6 for Shadows of Beginnings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadows of Beginnings.
A fantasy action roguelite of timed descents. Fight on stamina and frame-perfect blocks, build every run from the gear and skills the dungeon gives you, and carry Essence out to keep.
Mystery of Prophecy
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Ranked #7 for Shadows of Beginnings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
Mystery of Prophecy is a pixel art Metroidvania based on biblical prophecies, health, and parkour.
Ad Iterum
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Ranked #8 for Shadows of Beginnings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Shadows of Beginnings.
Ad Iterum is a turn-based top-down 2D roguelike set in a decaying, ever-shifting world. Flesh is fragile, but you can hack it. Enhance your body, embrace mutations, or form ancient blood pacts. Descend into the depths, scavenge what’s left of humanity, and crawl back...if you can. Kill. Die. Repeat.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadows of Beginnings.
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 Indie and Adventure with Shadows of Beginnings.
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 Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
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 Shadows of Beginnings.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shadows of Beginnings.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadows of Beginnings.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Shadows of Beginnings
- What games are most similar to Shadows of Beginnings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadows of Beginnings are AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound, Blood & Dungeon, Wyrd.
- Who developed Shadows of Beginnings?
- Shadows of Beginnings was developed by Squatch Works, Goated Grand, Xenclipse and published by Cryptid Forge Studios.
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 Shadows of Beginnings.
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