Games like Aggelos
If Aggelos is your kind of game, the closest matches are Castle In The Darkness, Cathedral and Alwa's Awakening — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its combat rewards creative movement, 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 Aggelos: Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Castle In The Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Aggelos.
Top pick for Aggelos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Cathedral
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Second-strongest match for Aggelos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Alwa's Awakening
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Third-strongest match for Aggelos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aggelos.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
Chasm
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Aggelos.
Ranked #4 for Aggelos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Inexistence Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Ranked #5 for Aggelos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Rediscover this great Metroidvania game in a brand new version with a lot of features and improvements! Run in a vast world full of mysteries and action in this Metroidvania-style game inspired by the classics of the 16-bit era.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Aggelos.
Ranked #6 for Aggelos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Environmental Station Alpha
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Ranked #7 for Aggelos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Ranked #8 for Aggelos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Aggelos.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
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Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Aggelos.
Reviewers of Aggelos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Boasting beautiful, hand-drawn animations and a re-orchestrated soundtrack, the cult classic returns with a unique blend of exploration, action, and adventure!
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Reviewers of Aggelos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Embark on an all-new adventure with Shantae, the hair-whipping belly dancing genie. After losing her magic, Shantae teams up with the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from a curse.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Aggelos.
Reviewers of Aggelos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Aggelos.
Reviewers of Aggelos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Aggelos.
SEGA’s collection of Mega Drive & Genesis Classics comes to a new generation, now updated with even more features: online multiplayer, achievements, mirror mode, rewind, save states, VR and more! Over 50 classic games in one great package. Get into the classics!
California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Aggelos cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Aggelos.
Reviewers of Aggelos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Aggelos.
The adventures of Asha, the little warrior, begin! Together with her blue sidekick Pepelogoo, she will run through numerous stages and save the Monster World from the darkness.
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Aggelos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aggelos at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Aggelos on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aggelos.
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 Aggelos on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
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 Aggelos on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aggelos.
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 Aggelos on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
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 Aggelos on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aggelos.
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 Aggelos on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aggelos.
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 Aggelos on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aggelos.
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 Aggelos on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aggelos.
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.
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 Aggelos.
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 Aggelos.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aggelos.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Aggelos.
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.
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 Aggelos.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aggelos.
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!
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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.
Alwa's Awakening
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aggelos.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
Chasm
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Aggelos.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Inexistence Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Rediscover this great Metroidvania game in a brand new version with a lot of features and improvements! Run in a vast world full of mysteries and action in this Metroidvania-style game inspired by the classics of the 16-bit era.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Aggelos.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Environmental Station Alpha
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aggelos.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Frequently asked about Aggelos
- Does Aggelos work on Steam Deck?
- Aggelos is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Aggelos cost?
- Aggelos is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Aggelos?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aggelos are Castle In The Darkness, Cathedral, Alwa's Awakening.
- Who developed Aggelos?
- Aggelos was developed by Storybird Games and published by PQube, Look At My Game.
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 Aggelos.
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