Games like The Mage's Tale
If The Mage's Tale is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vanishing Realms™, The Wizards - Enhanced Edition and Legendary Tales — 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 The Mage's Tale: The Mage’s Tale is a virtual reality dungeon crawler that transports you to a fantasy world and turns you into a wizard! As an apprentice of the mystic arts, only you have any hope of saving your kidnapped master!
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Steam players who put hours into The Mage's Tale 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.
Vanishing Realms™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mage's Tale.
Top pick for The Mage's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Vanishing Realms is an immersive RPG designed exclusively for Virtual Reality. Grab your sword and fight life-sized monsters in epic face-to-face melee combat. Explore mystic domains, outwit magical wards, seek lost artifacts, wield sorcery and steel to take on denizens of the Undead Realm.
The Wizards - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Mage's Tale.
Second-strongest match for The Mage's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
Become a powerful Wizard and take fate into your own hands! Immerse yourself in a beautiful fantasy world and destroy your enemies by casting spells with hand gestures!
Legendary Tales
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Mage's Tale.
Third-strongest match for The Mage's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
Legendary tales is a VR Action roleplaying game with up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, enhance your abilities and fight your way through an ever changing dungeon to make your own Legendary Tales.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mage's Tale.
Ranked #4 for The Mage's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.
Fighting Moore
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Mage's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Fighting Moore is a VR action-adventure focused around intense and fast-paced melee and magic combat. Through innovative VR UI mechanics allowing for real-time execution of back-to-back-to-back attacks, you have the control to take on 1vs5+ battles while exploring 5 unique environments.
M.A.D. Cliff - All Quiet On The Bridge
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Mage's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Mage's Tale.
“M.A.D. Cliff - All Quiet On The Bridge” is a VR exclusive first person fantasy shooter. Filled with impressive special effects and exiting game tracks.
Sword Reverie
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mage's Tale.
Ranked #7 for The Mage's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Be an anime protagonist and explore a fantasy world in VR. Use your unique abilities and sword skills to defeat invading enemies. Come join Stella on an adventure now!
Waltz of the Wizard
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mage's Tale.
Ranked #8 for The Mage's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
Waltz of the Wizard is a wizard simulator where you find yourself in a fantastical realm filled with spells, secrets and some pretty strange characters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Mage's Tale at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Mage's Tale on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Mage's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Mage's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Mage's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Mage's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Mage's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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More from inXile Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by inXile Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wasteland 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mage's Tale.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage's Tale. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Mage's Tale.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage's Tale. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Mage's Tale.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage's Tale. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Torment: Tides of Numenera
WHY THIS
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage's Tale. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mage's Tale.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage's Tale. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™
WHY THIS
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage's Tale. Shares Action with The Mage's Tale.
It will take the combined efforts of two great warriors to explore menacing dungeons, overgrown ruins, and downtrodden towns … and discover the secrets of the Demon’s Forge.
The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
WHY THIS
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage's Tale. Shares Action and RPG with The Mage's Tale.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mage's Tale.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage's Tale. Shares RPG with The Mage's Tale.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
Frequently asked about The Mage's Tale
- How much does The Mage's Tale cost?
- The Mage's Tale is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Mage's Tale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Mage's Tale are Vanishing Realms™, The Wizards - Enhanced Edition, Legendary Tales.
- Who developed The Mage's Tale?
- The Mage's Tale was developed by inXile Entertainment.
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