Games like Alwa's Awakening
If Alwa's Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are Alwa's Legacy, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and OUTBUDDIES DX — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and nostalgic. 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 Alwa's Awakening: Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
Players who liked Alwa's Awakening also play
Steam players who put hours into Alwa's Awakening 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.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Top pick for Alwa's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alwa's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.
OUTBUDDIES DX
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Third-strongest match for Alwa's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Chasm
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Ranked #4 for Alwa's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Ranked #5 for Alwa's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Ranked #6 for Alwa's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
Cathedral
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Ranked #7 for Alwa's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Mini Ghost
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking and an atmospheric mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Ranked #8 for Alwa's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
"Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alwa's Awakening at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alwa's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alwa's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alwa's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alwa's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Alwa's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Alwa's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alwa's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alwa's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alwa's Awakening.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
OUTBUDDIES DX
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Chasm
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alwa's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Frequently asked about Alwa's Awakening
- Is Alwa's Awakening verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Alwa's Awakening is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Alwa's Awakening cost?
- Alwa's Awakening is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Alwa's Awakening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alwa's Awakening are Alwa's Legacy, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, OUTBUDDIES DX.
- Who developed Alwa's Awakening?
- Alwa's Awakening was developed by Elden Pixels.
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