Games like ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree
If ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Vale: Shadow of the Crown, Grifford Academy and Nocturne — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and mysterious. 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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree: ATONE is a Norse mythology-inspired, hand-drawn game that blends interactive storytelling and complex puzzles with a rhythm game combat system. Inherit the role of a young warrior named Estra as she journeys through Midgard to unveil the truth behind her father’s death.
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The Vale: Shadow of the Crown
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Top pick for ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
CLOSE YOUR EYES. BECOME A WARRIOR: Feel your enemy’s rasping breath; a foot shifts on swampy ground; the crack of steel on wooden shield. The Vale is an audio based action adventure that sets out to breathe new life into medieval combat and fantasy narrative.
Grifford Academy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Grifford Academy is a story-rich, coming-of-age RPG set in a mystical book realm where your decisions shape the personalities of the characters. Engage in strategic turn-based combat as you set out to discover the secrets of Caldria.
Nocturne
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.
Xi
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Ranked #4 for ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
"Xi" is a horror puzzle game set in the context of modern Chinese folklore. The story takes place in an long-abandoned mountain mansion. This immersive escape room experience feels a bit too real, with eerie and strange elements everywhere—an empty banquet, an endless corridor.
Always in Mind
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Wield extraordinary powers born from forgotten memories to escape a subconscious on the brink of collapse. Team up with Proxy, an AI housing your family’s digitized history, as you slow time, bend gravity, and manifest memories in a coming-of-age adventure where technology and imagination collide.
The Cost of Salvation
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
She was made to serve. Never to feel. A narrative adventure about a being created to preserve the world's balance — who begins, for the first time, to question everything she was made for. Form bonds, make choices, and discover the price of becoming something you were never meant to be.
Sanfu
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Ranked #7 for ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Ranked #8 for ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Reviewers mention these as similar to ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree
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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Reviewers of ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.
Hyper Light Drifter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Reviewers of ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
God of War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Reviewers of ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree on Steam right now. Shares Action with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree on Steam right now. Shares Action with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
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. Shares Indie with ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree
- Is ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree cost?
- ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree are The Vale: Shadow of the Crown, Grifford Academy, Nocturne.
- Who developed ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree?
- ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree was developed by Wildboy Studios and published by Untold Tales.
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