Games like Wayward Souls
If Wayward Souls is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Devotion, Sparklite and Mana Spark — 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 Wayward Souls: Wayward Souls is a randomly generated action-RPG with a heavy focus on story. Play as seven different heroes, all with their own sets of abilities. Fight through steadily greater hordes of enemies.
Players who liked Wayward Souls also play
Steam players who put hours into Wayward Souls 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.
Dark Devotion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward Souls.
Top pick for Wayward Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
Sparklite
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward Souls.
Second-strongest match for Wayward Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Sparklite is an action-adventure set in a whimsical & ever-changing land. Battle foes using an arsenal of gadgets, guns, & gear. Gear up for adventure in the dangerous corners of the procedurally generated world, take down titans of the mining industry, & harness the power of Sparklite!
Mana Spark
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Wayward Souls.
Third-strongest match for Wayward Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
A challenging action RPG with deep souls-like combat and rogue-like elements. Explore a dreadful dungeon and fight smart enemies that will plan and collaborate between themselves to defeat you.
Pocket Rogues
WHY THIS
Shares procedural dungeons with Wayward Souls.
Ranked #4 for Wayward Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Pocket Rogues is a dynamic 2D-Roguelike with elements of Action-RPG, played entirely in real time. Raid endless dungeons, upgrade your Guild’s Fortress, and develop your own heroes!
Trinity Fusion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward Souls.
Ranked #5 for Wayward Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
Hollow Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward Souls.
Ranked #6 for Wayward Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Battle through hordes of horrific creatures as you hack and slash your way to the top of the Tower in this rogue-like dungeon crawler game. Choose from a variety of upgrades and weapons, and save the Tower.
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward Souls.
Ranked #7 for Wayward Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward Souls.
Ranked #8 for Wayward Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Wayward Souls
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Gauntlet
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Wayward Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Working as a common grunt for CannoSec, you have been chosen by the owner to be a candidate as a distinguished Elite. A position thousands in CannoSec work hard to attain. However, you have to show CannoSec that you are a worthy candidate through the Certification Run. Are you meant for this?
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward Souls.
Reviewers of Wayward Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward Souls.
Reviewers of Wayward Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Darkest Dungeon® II
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Wayward Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Wayward Souls.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wayward Souls at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Wayward Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wayward Souls.
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
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward Souls.
Priced ~67% under Wayward Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Wayward Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wayward Souls.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Wayward Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Wayward Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wayward Souls.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Wayward Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wayward Souls.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Wayward Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wayward Souls.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Wayward Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wayward Souls.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Wayward Souls.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Wayward Souls.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Wayward Souls.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Rocketcat Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Rocketcat Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Death Road to Canada
WHY THIS
Another title from Rocketcat Games, the studio behind Wayward Souls. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
Cannibal Crossing
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Wayward Souls.
Another title from Rocketcat Games, the studio behind Wayward Souls. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!
Dad by the Sword
WHY THIS
Another title from Rocketcat Games, the studio behind Wayward Souls. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Dad by the Sword is a First Person Swordfighting game with a heavy focus on tactical dismemberment, player creativity, giant spraying fountains of purple blood, and dad jokes. Play as YOUR DAD in his quest to fight evil glizzhounds, Wizzards, things hatched from eggs, and other vile Anti-Dads.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Trinity Fusion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward Souls.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
Hollow Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward Souls.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Battle through hordes of horrific creatures as you hack and slash your way to the top of the Tower in this rogue-like dungeon crawler game. Choose from a variety of upgrades and weapons, and save the Tower.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward Souls.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Wayward Souls.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Frequently asked about Wayward Souls
- Does Wayward Souls run on Steam Deck?
- Wayward Souls is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Wayward Souls cost?
- Wayward Souls is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wayward Souls?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wayward Souls are Dark Devotion, Sparklite, Mana Spark.
- Who developed Wayward Souls?
- Wayward Souls was developed by Rocketcat Games.
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 Wayward Souls.
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