Games like Zeran's Folly
If Zeran's Folly is your kind of game, the closest matches are Leowald, UnderParty and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep character customization, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Zeran's Folly: You're not a bad guy just because you have murderers as friends and holy knights want to kill you, right? Lone is on a quest with his two big axes and three loyal friends to find the four artifacts he needs in a world he doesn't bother to understand.
Players who liked Zeran's Folly also play
Steam players who put hours into Zeran's Folly 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.
UnderParty
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Zeran's Folly.
Second-strongest match for Zeran's Folly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
UnderParty is an Action Platformer game. This game is made up of a very high level of difficulty. It's very violent, so be careful.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zeran's Folly.
Third-strongest match for Zeran's Folly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zeran's Folly.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
Gunbrella
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zeran's Folly.
Ranked #4 for Zeran's Folly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Zeran's Folly.
Uncover the dark secrets of a gritty, tangled metropolis and battle diabolic villains with your trusty Gunbrella, a bulletproof brolly that doubles as a firearm.
Viola: The Heroine's Melody
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Zeran's Folly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Viola: The Heroine's Melody is the musical Platformer/RPG! After failing at violin practice for the hundredth time, Viola becomes trapped inside her instrument's fantastical world. Join her adventure to find her way back home, aided by the diverse ensemble of friends she meets along the way.
Super Meat Boy Forever
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Zeran's Folly.
Ranked #6 for Zeran's Folly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
Wife Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Zeran's Folly.
Ranked #7 for Zeran's Folly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
A retro platform, side-scrolling game with gorgeous pixel art. Help Mia rescue Fernando, her husband, who has been kidnapped by a Dark Elf named Morganna and her pack of Monster Girls.
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zeran's Folly.
Ranked #8 for Zeran's Folly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Zeran's Folly at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zeran's Folly on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zeran's Folly.
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 Zeran's Folly on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
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 Zeran's Folly on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zeran's Folly.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zeran's Folly on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zeran's Folly.
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 Zeran's Folly on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zeran's Folly.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Zeran's Folly on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Zeran's Folly on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zeran's Folly on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Zeran's Folly.
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.
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 Zeran's Folly.
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 Zeran's Folly.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Zeran's Folly.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Zeran's Folly.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
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Other recommendable Steam games by Myroid-Type Comics, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Johnny Lionface
WHY THIS
Another title from Myroid-Type Comics, the studio behind Zeran's Folly. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
A twisted story-driven action-RPG with endless ways to build your party of colorful combatants.
Millie Megavolte 8: Millie and the Mole King
WHY THIS
Another title from Myroid-Type Comics, the studio behind Zeran's Folly. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Flash may be dead but Millie's back in this action-packed revival! The Mole King is gearing up for war and made the mistake of annoying Millie. Go berserk and massacre your way through mountains of monsters to shut him up for good.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zeran's Folly.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Zeran's Folly.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
Gunbrella
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zeran's Folly.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Zeran's Folly.
Uncover the dark secrets of a gritty, tangled metropolis and battle diabolic villains with your trusty Gunbrella, a bulletproof brolly that doubles as a firearm.
Super Meat Boy Forever
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Zeran's Folly.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zeran's Folly.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Zeran's Folly.
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
Frequently asked about Zeran's Folly
- Does Zeran's Folly run on Steam Deck?
- Zeran's Folly 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 Zeran's Folly cost?
- Zeran's Folly is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Zeran's Folly?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zeran's Folly are Leowald, UnderParty, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Zeran's Folly?
- Zeran's Folly was developed by Myroid-Type Comics.
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