Games like The Curse Of Yendor
If The Curse Of Yendor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fractalis, Rift Wizard and Dungeonmans — 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 The Curse Of Yendor: Kill monsters, get loot, solve puzzles, complete quests! A sword and sorcery adventure where your magic shapes the world. A classical rogue-like with a modern feel. "Your nemesis has found the Amulet of Yendor... Defeat him before he ascends to godhood!"
Players who liked The Curse Of Yendor also play
Steam players who put hours into The Curse Of Yendor 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.
Fractalis
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Curse Of Yendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
Fractalis is a procedurally generated roguelike that has turnbased/gridbased combat with a realtime feel.
Rift Wizard
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Curse Of Yendor.
Second-strongest match for The Curse Of Yendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.
Dungeonmans
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Curse Of Yendor.
Third-strongest match for The Curse Of Yendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.
Golden Krone Hotel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Curse Of Yendor.
Ranked #4 for The Curse Of Yendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Curse Of Yendor.
Ranked #5 for The Curse Of Yendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Curse Of Yendor.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
I Am Overburdened
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with The Curse Of Yendor.
Ranked #6 for The Curse Of Yendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Curse Of Yendor.
I Am Overburdened is a silly turn-based roguelike full of crazy artifacts and a "hero" who has 20 inventory slots.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Curse Of Yendor.
Ranked #7 for The Curse Of Yendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Curse Of Yendor.
Ranked #8 for The Curse Of Yendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Curse Of Yendor
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Curse Of Yendor.
Reviewers of The Curse Of Yendor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Curse Of Yendor.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
Sword of Fargoal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Curse Of Yendor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Curse Of Yendor.
In this classic roguelike, released in 1983 for the Commodore 64 by Epyx, search the dark depths of a twisted dungeon, teeming with fiendish enemies and dangerous traps, for the legendary Sword of Fargoal, the only thing that can defeat the evil wizard Umla.
Dungeonmans
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Curse Of Yendor.
Reviewers of The Curse Of Yendor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Curse Of Yendor at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Curse Of Yendor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
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 The Curse Of Yendor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
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 The Curse Of Yendor on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Curse Of Yendor.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Curse Of Yendor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
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 The Curse Of Yendor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Curse Of Yendor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under The Curse Of Yendor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Curse Of Yendor.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under The Curse Of Yendor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Curse Of Yendor.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Curse Of Yendor.
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 The Curse Of Yendor.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Curse Of Yendor.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Curse Of Yendor.
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 The Curse Of Yendor.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about The Curse Of Yendor
- How much does The Curse Of Yendor cost?
- The Curse Of Yendor is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Curse Of Yendor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Curse Of Yendor are Fractalis, Rift Wizard, Dungeonmans.
- Who developed The Curse Of Yendor?
- The Curse Of Yendor was developed by IBOLOGY LLC.
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 Curse Of Yendor.
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