Games like Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime
If Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime is your kind of game, the closest matches are Coral & The Abyss, Resonant Blade and Blood & Dungeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime: Cross blades with space knights in this epic physics-based roguelike where space-age and medieval combat collide. Die often, upgrade, and battle your way across the galaxy, defeating rival ships in methodical skirmishes on a quest to save your kingdom from destruction!
Players who liked Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime also play
Steam players who put hours into Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime 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.
Coral & The Abyss
WHY THIS
Top pick for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Explore a shattered, interconnected world filled with hidden secrets, challenging enemies, lost memories, and the eerie remnants of a failed mission.
Resonant Blade
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
The world is in ruins. The Dark Synths reign. Only the Resonant Blade—a weapon that channels sound into destruction—can turn the tide. Slash, dash, and shatter your enemies in this dystopian sci-fi action adventure.
Blood & Dungeon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Escape the captivity of a blood-soaked, dark, and ruined dungeon; evade deadly traps, fight relentless enemies to survive, and determine your destiny
Hollow Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Ranked #4 for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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.
Reality Break
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Ranked #5 for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Rewrite the universe! Break reality to change your fate, and use your powers to stop sinister forces from altering existence itself. Discover the origin of your new abilities in a fast-paced ARPG Loot Collection Roguelite where you will bend, break, and change the laws of the universe!
Trinity Fusion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Ranked #6 for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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.
Pale Coins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Ranked #7 for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Journey into the ruthless open world of Pale Coins, an old-school fantasy RPG. Face punishing bosses, goblin-infested dungeons, and discover legendary weapons as you customize your champion and fight across Grenmark for the fabled Champion's Coin.
Eldest Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Ranked #8 for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime
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Hammerfight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Reviewers of Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Hammerfight is about 2D battles of flying machines equipped with various slashing, piercing and blunt weaponry.A unique combat system is based on realistic physics simulation, and it ties the movements of the rider to the movements of your mouse. As you wave the mouse, your rider swings his warhammer, smashing the foe into the wall!
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Reviewers of Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
HighFleet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Reviewers of Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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 ~67% under Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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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.
Hollow Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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.
Reality Break
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Rewrite the universe! Break reality to change your fate, and use your powers to stop sinister forces from altering existence itself. Discover the origin of your new abilities in a fast-paced ARPG Loot Collection Roguelite where you will bend, break, and change the laws of the universe!
Trinity Fusion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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.
Pale Coins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Journey into the ruthless open world of Pale Coins, an old-school fantasy RPG. Face punishing bosses, goblin-infested dungeons, and discover legendary weapons as you customize your champion and fight across Grenmark for the fabled Champion's Coin.
Eldest Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.
Frequently asked about Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime
- How much does Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime cost?
- Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime are Coral & The Abyss, Resonant Blade, Blood & Dungeon.
- Who developed Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime?
- Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime was developed by Spiritus Games.
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