Games like Marrow
If Marrow is your kind of game, the closest matches are CARRION, Blasphemous and The Last Faith — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and dark. 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 Marrow: Marrow is a 2D, Cosmic-Horror themed, action-adventure game emphasizing challenge, puzzles, platforming, combat and navigation. Leap, crawl, slash and blast your way through the cavernous bowels of a menacing mountain in a quest to find your lost friends.
Players who liked Marrow also play
Steam players who put hours into Marrow 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.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Marrow.
Top pick for Marrow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Marrow.
Second-strongest match for Marrow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
The Last Faith
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Marrow.
Third-strongest match for Marrow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
Laika: Aged Through Blood
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Marrow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Marrow.
Laika: Aged Through Blood is an action-adventure Metroidvania set in a post-apocalyptic western world. Play as Laika, a coyote mother and fierce warrior, and carve your motorbike through a land ravaged by betrayal and loss as you uncover dark secrets in the pursuit of vengeance against oppression.
Dolmen
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Marrow.
Ranked #5 for Marrow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
Dolmen is a terrifying new action RPG that combines futuristic Sci-Fi and Cosmic Horror elements. Will your timeline be erased or will you defeat your enemies to survive and fulfil your mission?
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Marrow.
Ranked #6 for Marrow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
BUTCHER
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Marrow.
Ranked #7 for Marrow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Marrow.
Ranked #8 for Marrow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Marrow.
A crazy action-adventure platformer... In Hell.
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La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Marrow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Marrow.
Reviewers of Marrow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Marrow.
Reviewers of Marrow cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Marrow.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Marrow at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Marrow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Marrow.
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 Marrow on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Marrow on Steam right now. Shares Action with Marrow.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Marrow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Marrow.
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 Marrow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Marrow.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Marrow on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
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 Marrow on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
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 Marrow on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
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.
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 Marrow.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Marrow.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Marrow.
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.
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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.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Marrow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Marrow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Laika: Aged Through Blood
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Marrow.
Laika: Aged Through Blood is an action-adventure Metroidvania set in a post-apocalyptic western world. Play as Laika, a coyote mother and fierce warrior, and carve your motorbike through a land ravaged by betrayal and loss as you uncover dark secrets in the pursuit of vengeance against oppression.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Marrow.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Marrow.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Frequently asked about Marrow
- How much does Marrow cost?
- Marrow is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Marrow?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Marrow are CARRION, Blasphemous, The Last Faith.
- Who developed Marrow?
- Marrow was developed by Fever Dream Gameworks.
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 Marrow.
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