Games like Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime
If Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime is your kind of game, the closest matches are Koboo: The Tree Spirit, Star Rangers and Rugida — 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.
Koboo: The Tree Spirit
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.
Koboo is a fast paced action rogue-lite platformer where you battle against towering hunters as a small tree spirit by attacking their weak points. Forge powerful synergies, explore the Ancient Forest's branching paths, fish, catch bugs and garden to rebuild your home!
Star Rangers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
Star Rangers is an isometric spaceship RPG. You have to survive in space, explore abandoned sectors and anomalies, develop technologies and modify your ships.
Rugida
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.
The girl ended up in the dungeons. And although her heart is now barely beating, she still hopes to get her soul back. The dungeon is just the beginning of the journey. And it is already teeming with everything that can be teeming with. Will you help her on this difficult journey?
Exovoid
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
——Thank you for supporting Exovoid—— we appreciate it. EXOVID IS ON HOLD. We realized it's too ambitious for now. Instead, we regrouped to bring you... ——EXOVID CARNAGE—— a High-Octane Wave-Based Arena Shooter. !!!Try it Now!!! (We will return to Exovoid someday.)
Hollow Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric 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.
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 #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.
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!
Pocket Rogues
WHY THIS
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.
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 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.
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.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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.
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!
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
Eternal Senia
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.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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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.
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.
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 Koboo: The Tree Spirit, Star Rangers, Rugida.
- Who developed Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime?
- Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime was developed by Spiritus 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 Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.
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