Games like The Realm
If The Realm is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Purge of the Crystals, Folk Souls and Phantom Blade Zero — 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 Realm: Embark on an open-world fantasy adventure where exploration is rewarded around every corner. Discover hidden dungeons, battle fearsome bosses, master powerful magic, find valuable loot, and uncover the secrets of an ancient realm.
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Steam players who put hours into The Realm 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.
The Purge of the Crystals
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Top pick for The Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
Explore a shattered world forged by fallen gods. Journey across the remnants of a fallen empire and buried myths as you seek the truth behind an ancient catastrophe.
Folk Souls
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Second-strongest match for The Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
An unknown metal strikes Earth, awakening the dark magic of the witch Cuca. As once-protective spirits now threaten the ecosystem, you are chosen to face mutated creatures and challenging bosses in this dark fantasy action RPG Soulslike.
Phantom Blade Zero
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Realm.
S-GAME presents Phantom Blade Zero, a fusion of classic Wuxia storytelling and exhilarating action powered by Unreal Engine 5. You play as Soul, a warrior with only sixty-six days left to live. Fend off assassins, unravel world-ending conspiracies, and defend your values with your life.
Swords of Legends
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Ranked #4 for The Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
Swords of Legends is a single-player action-adventure RPG set in the primordial age, a world drawn from the strange tales of classical Chinese literature, where mortals, gods, and wandering souls walk the same earth.
Godless Dawn
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Ranked #5 for The Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
Godless Dawn is a ruthless action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. Descend into cursed dungeons, uncover the stories behind fallen souls, and reveal the truth hidden behind the silence of the gods.
Godreaper
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Ranked #6 for The Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
Godreaper is a dark third-person action-adventure where the fate of your homeland hangs in the balance. As the bogatyr Zaremire, explore every corner of a world inspired by East Slavic mythology. Defeat the creatures of Navi, battle almighty gods and save your homeland from inevitable destruction.
LUNATHREN
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Ranked #7 for The Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
This is a dark fantasy action RPG set within a vast castle filled with sealed chambers. Explore to uncover hidden secrets and forgotten truths. Overcome daunting challenges and experience the thrill of victory. Unravel the complex drama driven by the intertwined motives of its characters.
Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults
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Ranked #8 for The Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults is the first-ever co-op Hack and Slash ARPG based on the Adventure Path, in which players lead iconic Pathfinder heroes into the depths of Gauntlight Keep and battle deadly abominations to reach the evil sorceress Belcorra Haruvex and end her vile schemes.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Realm.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
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 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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Realm.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Realm.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with The Realm.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Realm.
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 Adventure and RPG with The Realm.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Realm
- What games are most similar to The Realm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Realm are The Purge of the Crystals, Folk Souls, Phantom Blade Zero.
- Who developed The Realm?
- The Realm was developed by Odyssey Studio.
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 Realm.
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