Games like The Return of Illunes
If The Return of Illunes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Warrior Quest, Rogue’s Dark Descent and EmbeRogue — 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 Return of Illunes: A hardcore turn-based roguelike where an AI running on YOUR machine writes each run's story, synergies, oaths, and the names and lore of your loot. Type your own free action — "cut the chandelier loose" — and the AI judges it and narrates the outcome. No servers. No subscription. Fully offline.
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Steam players who put hours into The Return of Illunes 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.
Warrior Quest
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Top pick for The Return of Illunes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
An old-school dark-fantasy dungeon crawler where you fight, sneak, bluff, or bargain in your own words. What you say can materially change an encounter: bribe your way through, extract information, turn an enemy into an ally, or scare them into backing down... and whatever you do, roll well!
Rogue’s Dark Descent
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Second-strongest match for The Return of Illunes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
Rogue’s Dark Descent is a traditional roguelike about exploring a dangerous, procedurally generated wilderness and the forgotten places beneath it. Fight, explore, meet survivors, uncover lost history, find powerful artifacts, and see how long your story lasts.
EmbeRogue
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Third-strongest match for The Return of Illunes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
EmbeRogue is a real roguelike: turn-based, grid-based and boom-based, where everything can burn. Make your escape or tame your inner flames to defeat the FireLords.
Dungeon Cooking
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Ranked #4 for The Return of Illunes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
A dark cooking roguelike about feeding a plague-struck town. Send heroes into the dungeon for ingredients and cook what they bring back. Test the ingredients on rats, heroes, or citizens. And keep the kitchen alive as the town slowly falls apart.
The Chains Of Yme
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Ranked #5 for The Return of Illunes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
In this tactical roguelike you control five adventurers as you explore procedurally generated ruins to reach and conquer a Titan. Fight deadly monsters, utilize power-ups, and improvise while your knowledge of the world deepens. Persist when your adventurers are left behind, killed, or sacrificed.
HexCrawler
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Ranked #6 for The Return of Illunes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
Lead a party of three heroes through brutal turn-based tactical battles on a hexagonal grid. Build powerful synergies, adapt to unpredictable encounters, and survive deadly procedurally generated dungeons where every decision matters.
Blood & Chaos
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Ranked #7 for The Return of Illunes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
Ancient sacrifices saved the world, but their legacy is unraveling. A party based roguelike inspired by classic '80s RPGs, where every descent into cursed dungeons carries permanent consequences.
Jupiter Hell Classic
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Ranked #8 for The Return of Illunes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
Jupiter Hell Classic is the demake of a remake of a roguelike unmake of a famous 1993 FPS shooter. Rip and Tear!
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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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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
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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 The Return of Illunes.
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.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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 The Return of Illunes.
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.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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More from 14Dimension Enterprise
Other recommendable Steam games by 14Dimension Enterprise, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Perfection of Wisdom
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Another title from 14Dimension Enterprise, the studio behind The Return of Illunes.
*Turn-based 1 vs 1 card battle game. *Total 150 skill cards, no-in-game-charge. *This game has 5 unique characters and each character has its own game system. *Casual card game and at the same time, have deep strategic possibilities.
Game of Dragons
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Another title from 14Dimension Enterprise, the studio behind The Return of Illunes. Shares RPG with The Return of Illunes.
Card deck building full 3D RPG game. Collect materials to craft gears. Assembles seals that can be mounted on equipment.
Publisher Tycoon
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Another title from 14Dimension Enterprise, the studio behind The Return of Illunes.
At this game, you will become a manager of a book publishing company, and run it on your own. This is really fun management simulation game! You can feel manage real publisher and there are over 110 books you can produce.
Korean Rail Driving Tour-LRT Uijeongbu
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Another title from 14Dimension Enterprise, the studio behind The Return of Illunes.
This game is a railroad simulation game that allows you to experience actual railroad operation based on video footage of the driving direction of an actual train. Get feeling of being a train driver just by operating the accelerator and brakes. Enjoy “real” video of S.Korea’s beautiful scenery!
Korean Rail Driving Tour LRT Busan-Gimhae
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Another title from 14Dimension Enterprise, the studio behind The Return of Illunes.
This game is a railroad simulation game that allows you to experience actual railroad operation based on 1080p, 60 frame video footage of the driving direction of an actual train. Get feeling of being a train driver just by operating the accelerator and brakes. Enjoy S.Korea’s beautiful scenery!
Frequently asked about The Return of Illunes
- What games are most similar to The Return of Illunes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Return of Illunes are Warrior Quest, Rogue’s Dark Descent, EmbeRogue.
- Who developed The Return of Illunes?
- The Return of Illunes was developed by 14Dimension Enterprise.
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 Return of Illunes.
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