Games like Ancient Abyss
If Ancient Abyss is your kind of game, the closest matches are VOIN, FATE: Reawakened and BELOW — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 Ancient Abyss: Ancient Abyss is a 2D Zelda-like action game where you will explore mysterious and hidden events in a randomly generated maze. As you progress, you’ll gain more power and collect items to help you reach further into the maze.
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VOIN
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Top pick for Ancient Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
Crafted by a solo developer, VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash. Cleave through hordes of enemies in fast-paced combat. Explore dark fantasy realms filled with secrets and dangers. Discover powerful gear and weapons, and face menacing bosses in your quest to cleanse a broken world.
FATE: Reawakened
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Second-strongest match for Ancient Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancient Abyss.
Reawaken the critically acclaimed FATE games like never before! Play all 4 classic dungeon crawler titles with enhanced graphics as you battle through challenging procedurally generated dungeons, learn powerful spells, and fish to your heart’s content. Are you up to the task? Your FATE awaits!
BELOW
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Third-strongest match for Ancient Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.
Neverinth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Ranked #4 for Ancient Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
Explore the halls of the Neverinth and uncover the history of the Valkyrie. Do glorious battle against the beasts and monsters of Norse legend and uncover the hidden pasts of each heroic woman. But their trials will not be easy as they face down those that haunt the sacred halls of Valhalla.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Ranked #5 for Ancient Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
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.
EdgeOfTheAbyssAwaken
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Ranked #6 for Ancient Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
"Edge of the abyss Awakening" is an adventure game that combines third-person, action, Roguelite and RPG strategy selection. Players can match different weapons, entries and talents to form various gameplays for adventurous challenges. You can play solo or in teams of up to three people.
Hollow Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat and an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Ranked #7 for Ancient Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
Battle through hordes of horrific creatures as you hack and slash your way to the top of the Tower in this rogue-like dungeon crawler game. Choose from a variety of upgrades and weapons, and save the Tower.
Moon Hunters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Ranked #8 for Ancient Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ancient Abyss.
Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Ancient Abyss
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Noita
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Abyss.
Reviewers of Ancient Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Reviewers of Ancient Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Abyss.
Reviewers of Ancient Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Abyss.
Reviewers of Ancient Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Ancient Abyss.
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!
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares weapon switching with Ancient Abyss.
Reviewers of Ancient Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ancient Abyss at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ancient Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancient Abyss.
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 Ancient Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
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 Ancient Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Ancient Abyss.
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 Ancient Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
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 Ancient Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ancient Abyss.
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
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Abyss.
Priced ~58% under Ancient Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancient Abyss.
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 Ancient Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ancient Abyss.
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 Ancient Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancient Abyss.
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.
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 Ancient Abyss.
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.
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 Ancient Abyss.
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 Ancient Abyss.
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 Ancient Abyss.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ancient Abyss.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
FATE: Reawakened
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancient Abyss.
Reawaken the critically acclaimed FATE games like never before! Play all 4 classic dungeon crawler titles with enhanced graphics as you battle through challenging procedurally generated dungeons, learn powerful spells, and fish to your heart’s content. Are you up to the task? Your FATE awaits!
BELOW
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
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.
Hollow Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat and an atmospheric mood with Ancient Abyss.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ancient Abyss.
Battle through hordes of horrific creatures as you hack and slash your way to the top of the Tower in this rogue-like dungeon crawler game. Choose from a variety of upgrades and weapons, and save the Tower.
Frequently asked about Ancient Abyss
- Does Ancient Abyss run on Steam Deck?
- Ancient Abyss 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 Ancient Abyss cost?
- Ancient Abyss is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ancient Abyss?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ancient Abyss are VOIN, FATE: Reawakened, BELOW.
- Who developed Ancient Abyss?
- Ancient Abyss was developed by Screambox Studio and published by Screambox Studio, BD Games.
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