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Games like Mortal & Dao

If Mortal & Dao is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bottle Immortal, Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG and Chronicle of Cultivation — 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.

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About Mortal & Dao: Wen Dao Fan Chen is a dynamic cultivation sandbox RPG where every choice shapes a living world. Begin as a mortal, build sects and kingdoms, master ancient arts, and fight with five-element tactics. Save the world, rule it, or embrace forbidden cultivation.

RPGWindowsby 张玄
Mortal & Dao — Steam game cover

Players who liked Mortal & Dao also play

Steam players who put hours into Mortal & Dao 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.

  1. Bottle Immortal

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Mortal & Dao fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    Bottle Immortal is a 3D top-down, single-player, turn-based strategy RPG. Explore a cultivation world, recruit companions, and build your party. Master the Five Elements, combine skills and artifacts on grid-based battlefields, manage Turbidity, and return to the Bottle Realm to recover.

    StrategySimulationRPGSteam ↗
  2. Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Mortal & Dao fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    Azmar Quest is a text-based RPG with turn-based battles and old-school vibes. Choose your class from Warrior, Cleric, Witch or Archer, follow a 20-hour story, make choices that can change the ending, and fight 100+ enemies. You can also play online PvP battles and co-op Dungeons.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Chronicle of Cultivation

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Mortal & Dao fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    An ink-wash styled desktop writing companion. Every keystroke a breath, every word a step toward the Dao.

    2026IndieRPGFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Wuwei Cultivation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Mortal & Dao fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    A minimalist idle cultivation RPG. Train through nine realms, explore wilds and forbidden lands, defeat bosses for breakthrough pills, master eight disciplines, collect gear, and reincarnate to improve your aptitudes. Features auto-battles, offline progress, and local saves.

    IndieRPGCasualSteam ↗
  5. Realmbound Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Mortal & Dao fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    Enter a world of monsters and magic in this card-based RPG strategy game! Almost infinitely replayable with thousands of events, treasures and effects and a different game every time you play. Finish a whole adventure in only 20 minutes!

    2026StrategyIndieRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Grave Danger

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Mortal & Dao fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    A comedic turn-based survival RPG. A pharmaceutical giant sold the apocalypse as self-care. Adventure 24 zones, fight 380+ absurd monsters, craft weapons from garbage, and topple the CEO who ended the world. Days are turn-limited. Currency is Salt. Jokes are not optional.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  7. Everburning Dark 长夜余烬

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Mortal & Dao fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    Everburning Dark blends 2048-style roguelike merge combat, unlimited AI-driven storytelling, and companion AI bonding. Build with relics and skills, talk freely to reshape each run, and uncover the folk-horror truth of a dying dynasty.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Meridian

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Mortal & Dao fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    A choice-driven cyberpunk RPG with tactical turn-based combat. Talk, sneak, hack, or fight your way through branching jobs. Solve every job your way, and pay for each upgrade with a piece of who you are.

    2026IndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  3. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    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.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mortal & Dao.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mortal & Dao

What games are most similar to Mortal & Dao?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mortal & Dao are Bottle Immortal, Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG, Chronicle of Cultivation.
Who developed Mortal & Dao?
Mortal & Dao was developed by 张玄.

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 Mortal & Dao.

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