Games like Chronos: Before the Ashes
If Chronos: Before the Ashes is your kind of game, the closest matches are REMNANT II®, CubeCube and Lords of the Fallen — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its environmental storytelling reveals lore, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Chronos: Before the Ashes: Chronos: Before the Ashes is an atmospheric RPG that chronicles a hero’s lifelong quest to save their homeland from a great evil.
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REMNANT II®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Top pick for Chronos: Before the Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.
CubeCube
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chronos: Before the Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
CubeCube is a Animated 3D Roguelite game. Each time fails will restart again! Beat whoever stand against CubeCube, build your own combat style. Discover the ancient relic and heading towards to the Seal.
Lords of the Fallen
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chronos: Before the Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
A vast world awaits in the medieval, dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. As a fabled Dark Crusader, embark on an epic quest to overthrow Adyr, the demon God. The final major update Version 2.5 is out now: features deadlier boss battles and all-new Veteran Mode.
AI LIMIT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Ranked #4 for Chronos: Before the Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
In the distant future when civilization is on the verge of extinction, people follow the legend of the Elysium in the last city, Havenswell. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland sci-fi ARPG, you will play as Arrisa, a Blader with immortality, and explore the city ruin to find the hope of a new life.
Darksiders III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Ranked #5 for Chronos: Before the Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Return to an apocalyptic Earth in Darksiders III, a hack-n-slash Action Adventure where players assume the role of FURY in her quest to hunt down and dispose of the Seven Deadly Sins. The most enigmatic of the Four Horsemen, FURY must bring balance to the forces that now ravage Earth.
Ashen
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Ranked #6 for Chronos: Before the Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Ashen is an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home.
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Ranked #7 for Chronos: Before the Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Embark upon a vast, snow-ravaged kingdom in Tails of Iron 2, sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG. As Arlo, heir to the Warden of the Wastes, adventure through harsh northern lands, home to giant beasts and ragtag bandits, in an epic quest to overcome an ancient, blood-starved evil.
Tails of Iron
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Ranked #8 for Chronos: Before the Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Tails of Iron is an epic RPG Adventure with punishingly brutal combat. As Redgi, heir to the throne, you must embark on a perilous quest to reclaim your Kingdom. Explore a deceivingly charming world. Assemble a band of brave companions. Banish the merciless Frog clan!
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Remnant: From the Ashes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Reviewers of Chronos: Before the Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
REMNANT II®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Reviewers of Chronos: Before the Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Reviewers of Chronos: Before the Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
ELDEN RING
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Reviewers of Chronos: Before the Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
IT TAKES THE BALL
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Chronos: Before the Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Be careful! The game may be strongly condemned by dog lovers!Because if you don't play well, the cute dog in the game will die in front of you.Use the mouse to control the pitch of the racket.Waving the racket to control the ball is the trick of this game.
Dead Oculus
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Chronos: Before the Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Dead Oculus is a lethal, fast-paced bullet-hell that fuses arcade and roguelike elements. Brutalise your foes in gauntlets of handcrafted arenas by wielding deadly weapons with cataclysmic augments.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Reviewers of Chronos: Before the Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
SOULS
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Reviewers of Chronos: Before the Ashes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chronos: Before the Ashes at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chronos: Before the Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chronos: Before the Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chronos: Before the Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
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 Chronos: Before the Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
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 Chronos: Before the Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chronos: Before the Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Chronos: Before the Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chronos: Before the Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Action with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
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 Chronos: Before the Ashes.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
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 Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from Gunfire Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Gunfire Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Remnant: From the Ashes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Another title from Gunfire Games, the studio behind Chronos: Before the Ashes. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
REMNANT II®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Another title from Gunfire Games, the studio behind Chronos: Before the Ashes. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.
Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Another title from Gunfire Games, the studio behind Chronos: Before the Ashes. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
The ultimate DARKSIDERS II experience! 1080p native resolution. Reworked and tuned game balancing and loot distribution. Improved Graphic Render Engine for even higher visual quality, lighting and shadows. Improved and reworked level, character and environment graphics.
Darksiders III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Another title from Gunfire Games, the studio behind Chronos: Before the Ashes. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Return to an apocalyptic Earth in Darksiders III, a hack-n-slash Action Adventure where players assume the role of FURY in her quest to hunt down and dispose of the Seven Deadly Sins. The most enigmatic of the Four Horsemen, FURY must bring balance to the forces that now ravage Earth.
Darksiders 4
WHY THIS
Another title from Gunfire Games, the studio behind Chronos: Before the Ashes. Shares Action and Adventure with Chronos: Before the Ashes.
The legendary saga of the Four Horsemen continues in Darksiders 4, an all-new action-adventure set in an apocalyptic version of earth and continues where the original Darksiders game left off.
Frequently asked about Chronos: Before the Ashes
- Does Chronos: Before the Ashes run on Steam Deck?
- Chronos: Before the Ashes 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 Chronos: Before the Ashes cost?
- Chronos: Before the Ashes is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chronos: Before the Ashes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chronos: Before the Ashes are REMNANT II®, CubeCube, Lords of the Fallen.
- Who developed Chronos: Before the Ashes?
- Chronos: Before the Ashes was developed by Gunfire Games, THQ Nordic and published by THQ Nordic.
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