Games like Avernus
If Avernus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rustbuckets, HaeTae: Guardians and ABYSSAL BLADE — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Avernus: Avernus is a challenging action-adventure game set in an ancient, mysterious tomb of a dead god. Delve into its labyrinthine halls and protect its secrets from a malevolent pretender.
Players who liked Avernus also play
Steam players who put hours into Avernus 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.
Rustbuckets
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Top pick for Avernus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
Rustbuckets is a twin-stick action-adventure where you control a throwable shield like a second character, exploring a desolate world of forgotten machines.
HaeTae: Guardians
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Avernus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Avernus.
This is a 3D top-down action-adventure game. Dodge enemy attacks by rolling and defeat your foes. Become the Crown Prince chosen by the Yellow Dragon, and save Joseon from chaos alongside Haetae. Challenge powerful bosses, learn their abilities, and experience an intertwined story and adventure.
ABYSSAL BLADE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Avernus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
ABYSSAL BLADE is a pixel-art boss rush inspired by MMO raid mechanics. With only 1 HP, take up your blade and challenge the five stages of grief.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Avernus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Mark of the Deep
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Ranked #5 for Avernus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
Shipwrecked on a myth-shrouded island, play as rookie pirate Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey and explore haunting biomes, face unforgiving combat, and unravel a deep-sea curse in search of your lost crew, the Angry Mermaids.
Tearscape
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Avernus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
As a hunter, you explore a dark, interconnected world filled with dungeons, relying on precise combat to survive. Battle grotesque monsters, expand your arsenal, and uncover hidden paths in a non-linear, pixel art journey.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Avernus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Eldest Souls
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Avernus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Avernus at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Avernus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avernus.
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 Avernus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
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 Avernus on Steam right now. Shares Action with Avernus.
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 Avernus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
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 Avernus on Steam right now. Shares Action with Avernus.
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 Avernus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avernus.
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 Avernus on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Avernus.
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 Avernus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avernus.
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 Avernus.
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 Avernus.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Avernus.
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 Avernus.
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 Avernus.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Avernus.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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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.
ABYSSAL BLADE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
ABYSSAL BLADE is a pixel-art boss rush inspired by MMO raid mechanics. With only 1 HP, take up your blade and challenge the five stages of grief.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Tearscape
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
As a hunter, you explore a dark, interconnected world filled with dungeons, relying on precise combat to survive. Battle grotesque monsters, expand your arsenal, and uncover hidden paths in a non-linear, pixel art journey.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Eldest Souls
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Avernus.
Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.
Frequently asked about Avernus
- Does Avernus run on Steam Deck?
- Avernus 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 Avernus cost?
- Avernus is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Avernus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Avernus are Rustbuckets, HaeTae: Guardians, ABYSSAL BLADE.
- Who developed Avernus?
- Avernus was developed by WaveCraft Audio.
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 Avernus.
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