Games like The Elementalist
If The Elementalist is your kind of game, the closest matches are Reverie: Sweet As Edition, World to the West and The Puppeteer — 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 The Elementalist: Take an epic adventure spanning millions of pixels. Face mighty foes and other foes somewhat less mighty! Solve riddles and puzzles using your spells, wits and the environment! Unlock the power of the elements... Become The Elementalist!
Players who liked The Elementalist also play
Steam players who put hours into The Elementalist 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.
Reverie: Sweet As Edition
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Top pick for The Elementalist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
DESTINY CALLS THE LEAST LIKELY OF HEROES. Reverie is an action adventure game set on a fictional island in New Zealand, inspired by the legend of Maui and the Giant Fish where the demigod himself fishes up the North Island with a powerful fishhook.
World to the West
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Second-strongest match for The Elementalist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.
The Puppeteer
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Third-strongest match for The Elementalist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
Punishing pixel-art platformer about puppetry and potions!
BitHero Survivors
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Ranked #4 for The Elementalist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
A fast-paced survivor-like bullet heaven where you unleash evolving weapons to wipe out massive hordes. Pick your hero, wield evolving weapons, harness powerful relics. Explore colorful stages, survive relentless enemy waves — and become a true hero!
Stray Children
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Ranked #5 for The Elementalist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
“The Olders, they come to eat the Children…” All of the adults have become monsters, the rumors say. Nowhere is safe outside these walls. Welcome to Stray Children — a bittersweet, fairy tale RPG.
UnMetal
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Elementalist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.
#BLUD
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Elementalist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
No Place for Bravery
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Ranked #8 for The Elementalist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
Thorn, an old warrior worn down by decades of vim and violence, roams a world undone in search of his lost daughter. Dodge, parry & cleave your way out of brutal clashes in this 2D top-down action RPG, and discover the bone-chilling tale of Thorn's crusade to make his family whole again.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Elementalist at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Elementalist on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under The Elementalist on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elementalist.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under The Elementalist on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elementalist.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under The Elementalist on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Elementalist.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under The Elementalist on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Elementalist.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under The Elementalist on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Elementalist.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under The Elementalist on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Elementalist.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under The Elementalist on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elementalist.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Elementalist.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Elementalist.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 The Elementalist.
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 The Elementalist.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elementalist.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Elementalist.
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.
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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.
Stray Children
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
“The Olders, they come to eat the Children…” All of the adults have become monsters, the rumors say. Nowhere is safe outside these walls. Welcome to Stray Children — a bittersweet, fairy tale RPG.
UnMetal
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.
#BLUD
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Elementalist.
Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
Frequently asked about The Elementalist
- How much does The Elementalist cost?
- The Elementalist is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Elementalist?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Elementalist are Reverie: Sweet As Edition, World to the West, The Puppeteer.
- Who developed The Elementalist?
- The Elementalist was developed by Zack Radick.
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 The Elementalist.
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