Games like The Long Way Up
If The Long Way Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eternal Sword Tomb, Kardiya: The Winds of Fate and Mythologous — 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 The Long Way Up: A text-forward cultivation roguelite. Climb a tower of one thousand floors that never repeats the same climb for every new soul. Falling is not death, it is tuition: keep your realm, lose your altitude, and climb again with Moye, a sword spirit who remembers every fall you take.
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Eternal Sword Tomb
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Top pick for The Long Way Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
No chosen one, only a mortal soul. In this hardcore cultivation Roguelike, found a sect and forge a legacy across generations. Fall in battle to become a Sword Soul that protects those who follow. Master the Five Elements, defy fate, and turn every death into a step toward a greater awakening.
Kardiya: The Winds of Fate
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Second-strongest match for The Long Way Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Rogue-lite RPG Dicebuilding game. Roll the dice, choose your companions, organize your gear, explore all of Kardia, and die. Then try again! Try again and again. Experience a different story each time. Until you find The Winds of Fate.
RPGSteam ↗Mythologous
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Third-strongest match for The Long Way Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A persistent online text RPG with dungeon crawling, extraction, tactical combat, deep magic systems, and emergent radiant NPCs. Explore, prepare gear, clear dungeons, incant spells and rituals, interact and command companions naturally, craft and trade. Your avatar lives, with or without you.
Kinetype
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Ranked #4 for The Long Way Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with The Long Way Up.
KINETYPE is a minimalist, terminal, ASCII, roguelite where your keyboard is the interface for survival. Navigate procedural terminal grids by typing commands to move and survive. Extract to bank Bytes for permanent upgrades, or lose your streak to the system. The terminal is yours to command.
Warp to Sector One
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Ranked #5 for The Long Way Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with The Long Way Up.
Trade, fight, and explore a procedurally generated galaxy in this deep space trading game inspired by 80's sci-fi computer screens and early text based space games. Command fleets, negotiate with alien factions, colonize planets, and forge your legacy across five unique career paths.
Upheaval
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Ranked #6 for The Long Way Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Zodiac Mountain
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Ranked #7 for The Long Way Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Ascend Zodiac Mountain in a roguelike deckbuilder with two-sided cards. Build Yin & Yang hands, discover powerful relics, and create satisfying synergies to defeat mythical enemies.
Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾
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Ranked #8 for The Long Way Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Choose your mech, customize your loadout, and build your perfect deck. Experiment with cards to find powerful combinations as you enjoy the tactical combat and deckbuilding in this roguelike adventure!
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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.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Long Way Up
- What games are most similar to The Long Way Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Long Way Up are Eternal Sword Tomb, Kardiya: The Winds of Fate, Mythologous.
- Who developed The Long Way Up?
- The Long Way Up was developed by Flytel.
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 The Long Way Up.
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