Games like Brut@l
If Brut@l is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeon Souls, Wizard of Legend and Rampage Knights — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and retro. 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 Brut@l: A modern re-imagining of the classic ASCII dungeon crawler. Choose your hero and descend into a procedurally generated world constructed entirely from ASCII letters. Can you survive?
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Steam players who put hours into Brut@l 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.
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Brut@l.
Top pick for Brut@l fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Brut@l.
Second-strongest match for Brut@l fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Rampage Knights
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Brut@l.
Third-strongest match for Brut@l fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brut@l.
Ranked #4 for Brut@l fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brut@l.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Zombie Party
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Brut@l.
Ranked #5 for Brut@l fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!
Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Brut@l.
Ranked #6 for Brut@l fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Your best friend wants to cheer you up, so he tries his best to make a dungeon for you to explore. Explore his wholesome, weird-as-heck, scrappy rogue-lite oozing with charm and humor for 1-2 Players.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brut@l.
Ranked #7 for Brut@l fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Brut@l.
Ranked #8 for Brut@l fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Brut@l
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Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Brut@l.
Reviewers of Brut@l cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Brut@l.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
NetHack: Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath, procedural generation and a retro mood with Brut@l.
Reviewers of Brut@l cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Brut@l.
NETHACK: LEGACY is a remastered version of the original NetHack, the deeply rich and complex fantasy D&D roguelike. Hack and slash your way through orcs, dragons, and cockatrices as you explore the perilous procedurally-generated dungeons seeking the Amulet of Yendor.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Brut@l.
Reviewers of Brut@l cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Brut@l.
A new legacy begins...
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brut@l.
Reviewers of Brut@l cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Brut@l at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Brut@l on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brut@l.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Brut@l on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brut@l.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Brut@l on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Brut@l on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brut@l.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Brut@l on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Brut@l.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Brut@l on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Brut@l on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Brut@l on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brut@l.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Brut@l.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
《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.
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
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.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Brut@l.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Cry of Fear
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Brut@l.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Zombie Party
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Brut@l.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!
Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Brut@l.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Your best friend wants to cheer you up, so he tries his best to make a dungeon for you to explore. Explore his wholesome, weird-as-heck, scrappy rogue-lite oozing with charm and humor for 1-2 Players.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brut@l.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Brut@l.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Brut@l.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Frequently asked about Brut@l
- How much does Brut@l cost?
- Brut@l is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Brut@l have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Brut@l supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Brut@l?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Brut@l are Dungeon Souls, Wizard of Legend, Rampage Knights.
- Who developed Brut@l?
- Brut@l was developed by Stormcloud Games Limited and published by Rising Star Games.
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 Brut@l.
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