Games like The Ballad Singer
If The Ballad Singer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orwell's Animal Farm, Goodbye Volcano High and Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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 Ballad Singer: The Ballad Singer is an asymmetric adventure, inspired by RPGs and game books, where you can experience many dynamic stories. Forge the fate of Hesperia through the stories of four different adventurers in a fantasy world completely illustrated and narrated.
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Steam players who put hours into The Ballad Singer 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.
Orwell's Animal Farm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ballad Singer.
Top pick for The Ballad Singer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.
Goodbye Volcano High
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ballad Singer.
Second-strongest match for The Ballad Singer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Ballad Singer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series is a six part episodic game series set in the world of HBO's groundbreaking TV show. This new story tells of House Forrester, a noble family from the north of Westeros, loyal to the Starks of Winterfell.
AmaTisMo
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Ballad Singer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ballad Singer.
Ranked #5 for The Ballad Singer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.
Misadventures of Laura Silver
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ballad Singer.
Ranked #6 for The Ballad Singer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Ballad Singer.
Ranked #7 for The Ballad Singer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Ballad Singer.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Ballad Singer.
Ranked #8 for The Ballad Singer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ballad Singer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under The Ballad Singer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ballad Singer.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under The Ballad Singer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under The Ballad Singer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ballad Singer.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under The Ballad Singer on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Ballad Singer.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under The Ballad Singer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Ballad Singer.
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!
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 The Ballad Singer.
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 Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
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.
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 The Ballad Singer.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Ballad Singer.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Ballad Singer.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Orwell's Animal Farm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ballad Singer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.
Goodbye Volcano High
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ballad Singer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ballad Singer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Ballad Singer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Ballad Singer.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Ballad Singer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ballad Singer.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Frequently asked about The Ballad Singer
- How much does The Ballad Singer cost?
- The Ballad Singer is listed on Steam at 22.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Ballad Singer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ballad Singer are Orwell's Animal Farm, Goodbye Volcano High, Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series.
- Who developed The Ballad Singer?
- The Ballad Singer was developed by Curtel Games.
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