Games like First Curse
If First Curse is your kind of game, the closest matches are Estelle Igni: To Light Fires in the Night Sky, Last Genesis and Sea of Stars — 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 First Curse: A lone warrior awakes from a deep slumber, sensing something is terribly wrong with the world. Set out to seek the reason for this underlying sense of unease that has afflicted the people of the land.
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Estelle Igni: To Light Fires in the Night Sky
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Top pick for First Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with First Curse.
The JRPG of eternal night and endless discovery. Recover and blend lost techniques from 13 unique classes to face the demands of a dangerous world. Pull at narrative threads until you've unraveled the last mysteries of Limina and the rifts slowly eating its stars.
RPGSteam ↗Last Genesis
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Second-strongest match for First Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
Last Genesis: a classic-style turn-based RPG that starts with you finding a lost cat and ends with you becoming a [REDACTED].
Sea of Stars
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Third-strongest match for First Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.
8-Bit Adventures 2
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Ranked #4 for First Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
Pilot your Airship, prepare your party, and explore a vast World Map in 8-Bit Adventures 2 – an exciting, emotional tribute to the Golden Age of JRPGs. Dynamic turn-based battles & pixels with personality!
FINAL FANTASY V
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Ranked #5 for First Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with First Curse.
The original FINAL FANTASY V comes to life with completely new graphics and audio as a 2D pixel remaster! A remodeled take on the fifth game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.
Beloved Rapture
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Ranked #6 for First Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
Beloved Rapture is an indie jRPG inspired by the classics. Explore beautiful landscapes, fight in turn-based battles, and uncover many secrets. This mid-length adventure balances both an intimate coming of age story, and larger threats looming over the troubled kingdom.
Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
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Ranked #7 for First Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with First Curse.
The magic torches are lit, the monsters are ravenous, and the kingdom is waiting for a new hero. Experience the legendary Wizardry series’ modern rebirth as you traverse perilous dungeons and take on hordes of fantastic enemies. Are you up to the challenge?
Elminage Gothic
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Ranked #8 for First Curse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
From the makers of the world renowned “Wizardry Empire” titles, Starfish SD brings you the latest entry in their popular series of dungeon crawlers. Elminage Gothic, previously only available in Japanese on PlayStation® Portable, now comes to PC offering a classic old school dungeon crawling experience with a dark, gothic twist!
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with First Curse.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with First Curse.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with First Curse.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with First Curse.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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More from James H. Van der Meulen
Other recommendable Steam games by James H. Van der Meulen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Victim
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind First Curse. Shares Adventure with First Curse.
A game like none other. Victim invites you into the world of The Ominous Oppression. A desolate landscape of horrors and mental anguish. A place where only the mentally strong can survive and overcome the seemingly endless relentless trials of perpetuating devastation.
First Odium
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind First Curse. Shares RPG with First Curse.
A psychological Turn Based Combat RPG Dungeon Crawling Horror
Crazy Brain
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind First Curse.
Use perceptive skills and cognition to attempt to gather points, collect an accumulated a score and attempt to exit the stage without failing.
Happy Mask
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind First Curse. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
This is what it feels like to be enslaved by your own mind. Toxic happiness and the brutal reality of a world that cannot be argued away. Step into the backward flipside of a perspective of being mocked and rediculed by blind observers that subscribe to the way of the mob.
The Knowledge of Hermit
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind First Curse. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
A puzzle solving, dungeon crawling, action adventure, role playing game.
TVS Sample Box
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind First Curse.
An evolving app with random surprising updates.
Drone Break
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind First Curse. Shares Adventure with First Curse.
Run and Gun Roguelite where the goal is to upgrade each consecutive alien drone on death so the next can strive to become overpowered enough to escape the all consuming hive mind.
Dissociative
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind First Curse. Shares Adventure and RPG with First Curse.
Enter this dark fantasy nightmare adventure game. Spanning a vast unpredictable mindscape of over 2000 unique areas. Answer perplexing questions, gain abilities, power ups and transfer between dark and light worlds in this seemingly endless dreamscape.
Frequently asked about First Curse
- What games are most similar to First Curse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside First Curse are Estelle Igni: To Light Fires in the Night Sky, Last Genesis, Sea of Stars.
- Who developed First Curse?
- First Curse was developed by James H. Van der Meulen and published by Trash Vomit 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 First Curse.
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