Games like Long Shadow
If Long Shadow is your kind of game, the closest matches are StorySmith, Kardiya: The Winds of Fate and The Iron and the Oath — 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 Long Shadow: Guide one family across centuries of collapse, evacuation, settlement and interstellar expansion. Preserve memories, establish laws, command crews, inherit ships and face the Afterless as every choice becomes part of history.
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Steam players who put hours into Long Shadow 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.
StorySmith
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Top pick for Long Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
A live collaborative story game for you and your Twitch chat. AI generates each scene on your machine — no internet required. Chat votes, you narrate, together you write the story.
Kardiya: The Winds of Fate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Long Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
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 ↗The Iron and the Oath
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Third-strongest match for Long Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
A Cat's Tale
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Ranked #4 for Long Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A Cat's Tale is an urban fantasy visual novel in Brazil's capital, where no cat is what it seems and tough choices have to be made.
Space Wreck
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Ranked #5 for Long Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
The biggest little RPG in the world. Post-apocalyptic retro space adventure with an extreme focus on role-playing and replayability. Inch wide, miles deep - intentionally short yet surprisingly deep.
Touhou: Fading Illusion
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Ranked #6 for Long Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A visual novel based on Touhou Project, made by fans for fans and others! Embark on the investigation of the greatest incident in Gensokyo's history and discover the terrifying truth of the youkai world with Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi and other heroines!
OMEA
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Ranked #7 for Long Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
SunSet Diffusion
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Ranked #8 for Long Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
With the sun on the verge of burning out, embark on an isometric single-player RPG adventure in a magical realist world. Explore, converse, enhance stats, and make choices. Focus solely on your survival or uncover the secrets of the apocalypse; it all depends on your decisions.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
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.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
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.
Saihate Station
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Long Shadow.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
of the Devil
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
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Frequently asked about Long Shadow
- What games are most similar to Long Shadow?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Long Shadow are StorySmith, Kardiya: The Winds of Fate, The Iron and the Oath.
- Who developed Long Shadow?
- Long Shadow was developed by Many Riches.
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 Long Shadow.
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