Games like Five Elements
If Five Elements is your kind of game, the closest matches are Darkest Dungeon®, Deathtrap and Kenshi — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Five Elements: Five Elements is a real time strategy game about managing energies of five Taoist elements (fire, earth, metal, water and wood). The hero is a monk in quest for Enlightenment.
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Steam players who put hours into Five Elements 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.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Five Elements.
Top pick for Five Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Deathtrap
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Five Elements.
Second-strongest match for Five Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Five Elements.
Third-strongest match for Five Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Orcs Must Die! 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Five Elements.
Ranked #4 for Five Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Five Elements.
Ranked #5 for Five Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
The Banner Saga
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Five Elements.
Ranked #6 for Five Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Five Elements.
Ranked #7 for Five Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Pit People®
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Five Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Five Elements at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Five Elements on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Five Elements.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Five Elements on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Five Elements.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Five Elements on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Five Elements.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Five Elements on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Five Elements on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Five Elements.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Five Elements on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Five Elements.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Five Elements on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Five Elements.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Five Elements on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Five Elements.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 Five Elements.
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 Indie with Five Elements.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Five Elements.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
The Banner Saga
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Five Elements.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Pit People®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.
Frequently asked about Five Elements
- How much does Five Elements cost?
- Five Elements is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Five Elements?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Five Elements are Darkest Dungeon®, Deathtrap, Kenshi.
- Who developed Five Elements?
- Five Elements was developed by TaosX.
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 Five Elements.
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