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Fantasy hidden gems on Steam
Every game here is tagged Fantasy on Steam, sits between 1,000 and 5,000 reviews, is rated at least 80% positive, and carries a catch drawn from its own negative reviews. Showing the 60 most reviewed of 81. How these pages are made.
Project: Gorgon is a 3D fantasy MMORPG with a skill-based system for unique character builds and an immersive, exploration-focused world. It emphasizes player freedom and discovery over guided progression.
What players likedPlayers praise "Project: Gorgon" as an old-school MMO reminiscent of Everquest or Ultima Online, offering deep exploration, skill-based progression, and a friendly community.
The catchProgress turns into a time gated grind wall once the early levels are behind you.
Games like Project: Gorgon →
Overlord II89% positive from 4,937 reviews2009Deck Playable
Action-adventure game where you command minions to destroy an empire. Players can choose between domination or destruction playstyles.
What players likedPlayers praise Overlord II as a fun, improved sequel to Overlord I, with unique minion-control gameplay unmatched by other games.
The catchCrashes and soft locks are common, and with no manual save you lose long stretches.
Games like Overlord II →
Kingdom Rush is a tower defense game where players strategically place and upgrade towers to defeat waves of enemies. It offers a challenging and engaging experience with cartoon art and hero units.
What players likedPlayers praise Kingdom Rush as a classic, challenging, and strategic tower defense game, often compared to Bloons TD and Plants vs. Zombies, with charming graphics and high replayability.
The catchAfter the campaign the difficulty spikes to require one exact intended tower layout.
Games like Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense →
Third-person action-adventure in the American Deep South. Hazel becomes a Weaver, using magic to subdue folklore creatures called Haints and untangle her family's buried history.
What players likedPlayers praise the beautiful art style, captivating story, and amazing music, often comparing it to a Southern Gothic "Alice in Wonderland" or "Wolf Among Us."
The catchCombat is tedious and repetitive, with the same enemies in copy-paste arenas.
Games like South of Midnight →
Sacred Gold85% positive from 4,568 reviews2008Deck Playable
Action RPG with a vast open world and loot-driven combat. Features a dark fantasy setting with challenging monster encounters.
What players likedPlayers praise Sacred Gold as an addicting, exploration-heavy ARPG with extensive character customization, rewarding loot, and an enthralling open world.
The catchGetting it to run on a modern PC takes mods, config edits and luck.
Games like Sacred Gold →
Fantasy turn-based strategy RPG with tactical combat and hero progression. Explore, conquer, and battle demons in a 3D world.
What players likedPlayers praise its satisfying strategic gameplay and beautiful landscapes, similar to other long-term engaging titles.
The catchCampaign missions break, with objectives like the Tear of Asha failing to complete.
Games like Heroes of Might & Magic V →
Action RPG with party-based combat and continuous exploration. You fight monsters, gain skills, and recruit companions in a fantasy world.
What players likedPlayers praise its seamless fantasy adventure and unique leveling system, comparing it to Baldur's Gate 3 and Elder Scrolls titles.
The catchThis Steam version often refuses to run on modern Windows without mods or workarounds.
Games like Dungeon Siege →
Circle Empires90% positive from 4,145 reviews201864% finish itDeck Playable
Circle Empires is a real-time strategy game where players expand their kingdom by conquering interconnected circles, featuring procedural generation and unit progression. It offers fast-paced battles against diverse enemies and bosses.
What players likedPlayers praise this cute, casual RTS as a fun time-killer with straightforward strategy.
The catchThe loop of massing units and taking the next circle stays shallow and repeats fast.
Games like Circle Empires →
This is a PC Japanese role-playing game featuring strategic union-based combat and a story-driven adventure. It offers fast-paced battles and character customization.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique squad-based combat system, despite awkward controls, for its strategic depth and charming characters.
The catchEnemies scale with your grinding, so levelling up can soft lock you out of progress.
Games like The Last Remnant™ →
A grid-based dungeon crawler emphasizing exploration, survival, and challenging puzzles with real-time combat. Players solve puzzles and fight monsters in a fantasy setting.
What players likedPlayers praise it as a classic, nostalgic, grid-based dungeon crawler with excellent puzzles and character customization.
The catchIt frequently crashes while saving, wiping out progress since the last successful save.
Games like Legend of Grimrock 2 →
An epic fantasy RPG with hack-and-slash combat and deep, classless character development. Explore a vast world, complete non-linear quests, and manage thousands of items.
What players likedPlayers praise its open world, story, and blend of action and traditional RPG elements, comparing it to Diablo, Baldur's Gate, and Morrowind.
The catchFrequent crashes and corrupted saves wipe out hours of progress on modern systems.
Games like Divine Divinity →
Warstone TD82% positive from 3,885 reviews2018Deck Playable
Warstone TD is a fantasy tower defense game featuring strategic unit placement and diverse upgrade paths. Players build a city, train an army, and utilize unique spellcasting mechanics to defend against invaders.
What players likedPlayers praise the deep strategic tower selection that makes time fly by.
The catchSome missions require co-op or PvP, but the online side is dead or broken.
Games like Warstone TD →
This is a turn-based tactical fantasy RPG with real-time exploration. Players command armies in strategic battles to find treasure and complete quests.
What players likedPlayers praise this fantasy strategy RPG as a mix of HOMM and classic RTS, with great tactical combat and visual style.
The catchThe publisher tried to bolt a third-party ad launcher onto this decades-old game.
Games like King's Bounty: The Legend →
Dungeon Alchemist is a mapmaking application for tabletop RPGs. It automatically generates detailed maps based on user-selected themes, allowing for quick creation and customization.
What players likedPlayers say it's like Talespire and other VTTs, praising its intuitive map building, vast prop variety, and time-saving features.
The catchCrashes often and autosave frequently fails, wiping out hours of map work.
Games like Dungeon Alchemist →
This is a turn-based survival strategy game with hexagonal exploration. It features village management, crafting, and a card-based combat system in a dark fantasy setting.
The catchDense stat menus and a clunky interface make even simple turns slow and tedious.
Games like Thea: The Awakening →
Action-adventure game with realm-shifting puzzles and combat. Players hunt former brethren, grow stronger by consuming souls.
What players likedPlayers praise its intricate, epic dark-fantasy gothic story and atmosphere, comparing it to a foundational giant for subsequent games.
The catchThe original clunky combat, controls and camera are untouched and have aged badly.
Games like Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered →
Orcs Must Die!96% positive from 3,628 reviews20115% finish itDeck Playable
This is a fantasy action-strategy game where players use weapons and traps to defend fortresses from orcs. It features a story campaign with persistent upgrades and high replayability.
What players likedPlayers praise its simple, fun, and challenging tower defense gameplay with excellent progression and map design.
The catchA long-standing bug stops the spellbook opening, which blocks starting a level.
Games like Orcs Must Die! →
A classic party-based RPG with deep character customization and exploration. Brave a frozen wilderness, battle monsters, and uncover secrets.
What players likedPlayers praise Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition as a timeless CRPG like Baldur's Gate, focusing on combat, dungeon exploration, and deep RPG mechanics.
The catchIt throws endless waves of trash mobs at you with little story in between.
Games like Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition →
This is a 3D remake of a classic Japanese role-playing game. Players explore a world, battle monsters, and master jobs to save the land.
What players likedPlayers praise its turn-based combat, enhanced story, and graphics, making it a solid, challenging remake for grinding fans.
The catchSaves are unreliable, with cloud sync and quick saves wiping hours of progress.
Games like Final Fantasy III (3D Remake) →
FATE96% positive from 3,516 reviews2005Deck Playable
FATE is a classic, procedurally generated dungeon crawler with a pet system. Players battle monsters, collect loot, and level up in a fantasy setting.
What players likedPlayers praise FATE as a simple, fun dungeon crawler reminiscent of beloved childhood games.
The catchThe Steam release is unstable on modern PCs, crashing at startup or during play.
Games like FATE →
A story-driven point-and-click adventure with a multi-layered narrative. Players explore a magical world, solving puzzles and experiencing a dramatic tale.
What players likedPlayers praise its enchanting story, hand-drawn art, and unique dialogue, reminiscent of classic children's fantasy literature.
The catchPuzzles run on moon logic and the hint system is too vague to unstick you.
Games like The Night of the Rabbit →
This is a retro pixel-art RPG simulating a tabletop session where players control both characters and the game master. Players choose classes and characters, then engage in turn-based combat and exploration with customizable encounters.
What players likedPlayers praise it as a refreshing RPG that blends classic fantasy with tabletop gaming, like a meta D&D experience.
The catchThe game stops booting after the first session unless you create a Paradox account.
Games like Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition →
A science fantasy visual novel with a 3D camera system, following a princess and her guardian's escape and journey home. The game features a heavy, mysterious atmosphere as they navigate an unknown land.
What players likedPlayers praise "fault - milestone one" as a captivating, well-paced introductory visual novel with memorable characters and a balanced, engaging story.
The catchEndless exposition and lore dumps bury the story and stall the main characters.
Games like fault - milestone one →
Turn-based fantasy strategy game. Build armies, conquer lands, and use magic and tactics.
What players likedPlayers praise it as the finest version of Heroes of Might and Magic, with first-class graphics, sound, and animation.
The catchCrashes often on modern Windows, and saved games frequently fail to load.
Games like Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East →
Element TD 2 is a cooperative and competitive tower defense game. Players combine elements to build unique towers and strategize against waves of enemies.
What players likedPlayers praise its addictive strategy and rewarding elemental combinations, reminiscent of a puzzle game.
The catchThe big tower tech tree is unbalanced, so only a handful of combos are worth using.
Games like Element TD 2 - Tower Defense →
This is a 3D remake of a classic JRPG featuring the Active Time Battle system and character ability customization. It offers a dramatic story with emotional characters and new gameplay features.
What players likedPlayers praise the 3D Remake as the definitive FFIV, a fresh experience with voice acting and updated gameplay, similar to the FF3 3D remake.
The catchBattles run at a locked 15fps, making combat crawl in an otherwise dated port.
Games like Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) →
This is a single-player story adventure game. Players explore a frozen world, solving puzzles and interacting with characters to uncover a narrative.
What players likedPlayers praise its beautiful, approachable story and lore, offering a relaxing journey through the League of Legends universe.
The catchThe puzzles are too easy and the combat is shallow, so it plays like a kids game.
Games like Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story →
King's Quest90% positive from 2,992 reviews201517% finish itDeck Verified
This is an episodic adventure game featuring narrative choices, puzzle-solving, and exploration. Players experience King Graham's past through branching stories and witty dialogue.
What players likedPlayers praise King's Quest as a charming puzzle adventure with a strong story, humor, and beautiful art, reminiscent of classic adventure games.
The catchMore interactive cartoon than adventure game, heavy on cutscenes and light on puzzles.
Games like King's Quest →
A linear action-adventure game with fast-paced combat and exploration. It features a melancholic atmosphere, unique level mechanics, and over 50 enemy types.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique art, music, and atmosphere, comparing it to Majora's Mask, Dusk, and Half-Life.
The catchCombat is janky and constant, with weapons that struggle to hit fast swarming enemies.
Games like Northern Journey →
This is a fantasy RPG/RTS hybrid where you control a hero and build armies. It features tactical combat and strategic base building in a dark fantasy world.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique RTS/RPG genre mix, offering fresh vibes unlike typical games.
The catchTutorial takes around ninety minutes to complete
Games like SpellForce - Platinum Edition →
Deck-building roguelike with strategic combat and narrative choices. Explore, fight, and shape a dark fantasy world to regain your memories.
What players likedPlayers praise its story-focused roguelite deck-building, comparing it to Slay the Spire and Monster Train, with insane replayability.
The catchThe final boss fights are unfair, cheating slogs that ruin otherwise good runs.
Games like Knock on the Coffin Lid →
Action RPG with spell-stealing combat and rebellion-building. Fight oppressors, recruit mages, and uncover secrets in Demacia.
The catchCombat is clunky and repetitive, with sloppy hitboxes and an unreliable dash and aim.
Games like The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story™ →
Songs of Silence is a single-player, story-driven strategy game with a hand-crafted fantasy world. It features accessible tactical gameplay with diverse unit and skill options.
What players likedPlayers praise its gorgeous visuals, art, and story, comparing it to games like Thronebreaker and Songs of Conquest.
The catchBeautiful art wraps shallow autobattles that give almost no control over the fighting.
Games like Songs of Silence →
This is a roguelike action-platformer with fast, acrobatic combat and a core loop of dying, learning, and trying again. It offers a challenging, replayable experience focused on mastering movement and combat.
What players likedPlayers praise its fluid parkour, combat, art, and music, comparing it to Dead Cells and Hades.
The catchThe gameplay loop stops changing after a few hours and there is little content left.
Games like The Rogue Prince of Persia →
This is a turn-based fantasy strategy game where players build empires, research spells, and conquer enemies. It features deep city management and diverse victory conditions.
What players likedThere is no substantive information in the provided text to form a review.
The catchDecade old bugs still lock up the UI, crash the game and block completion.
Games like Warlock - Master of the Arcane →
Action-adventure game where you command minions to conquer kingdoms and delve into hellish expansions. It features a dark fantasy feel with a focus on despotic rule.
What players likedPlayers praise its Pikmin-meets-Lord-of-the-Rings style, commanding minions, and Fable-like humor and world changes.
The catchCommanding the minions is clunky and unresponsive, which ruins the puzzles and bosses.
Games like Overlord™: Raising Hell →
Anna's Quest88% positive from 2,521 reviews201516% finish itDeck Verified
This is a hand-drawn point-and-click adventure game featuring telekinesis and dark humor. Players solve puzzles and interact with a grim fantasy world.
The catchThe voice acting grates, especially the lead, and every line is delivered slowly.
Games like Anna's Quest →
Kingdom Rush Frontiers is a tower defense game where players strategically place and upgrade towers to defend against waves of enemies. It features fast-paced, charming gameplay with diverse towers and hero abilities.
What players likedPlayers praise its expanded world, engaging campaign, and unique, challenging stages, building on the original's greatness.
The catchDifficulty and balance swing wildly, with bosses and levels that feel outright unfair.
Games like Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense →
This is a point-and-click adventure game with a dark fantasy feel. Players solve puzzles and interact with characters to uncover a deep story.
What players likedPlayers praise its interesting plot and well-done voice acting.
The catchPuzzle logic is arbitrary enough that finishing often means opening a walkthrough.
Games like The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav →
This is a tactical action game featuring large-scale battles with many characters. Its core loop involves strategic combat with a massive roster and multiple game modes.
What players likedPlayers praise this game as a strong entry reminiscent of older Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors titles, featuring a huge cast of powerful characters.
The catchThe PC port is broken, forcing a 60Hz monitor to avoid black textures and crashes.
Games like WARRIORS OROCHI 3 Ultimate Definitive Edition →
This is a morbidly comical platformer where players use knight deaths to solve physics-based puzzles. The core loop involves sacrificing knights to overcome obstacles and progress through trap-filled levels.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique, dark humor-filled puzzles, comparing it to a twisted platformer.
The catchThe clever premise wears thin fast as later levels turn fiddly and frustrating.
Games like Life Goes On: Done to Death →
Fairy Fencer F89% positive from 2,375 reviews20158% finish itDeck Playable
This is a turn-based RPG featuring a reluctant hero, a unique "Fairizing" mechanic for powered-up forms, and a world-shaping system. It offers humorous storytelling and strategic dungeon exploration.
The catchA separately sold enhanced version makes this original an inferior way to play.
Games like Fairy Fencer F →
A quick-play puzzle roguelike where you explore single-screen dungeons to regain health and mana. It offers deep tactical gameplay with infinite replayability and a competitive daily mode.
What players likedPlayers praise its depth, content variety, and satisfyingly paced dungeon runs, reminiscent of roguelikes but with unique puzzles and challenges.
The catchIt plays as a punishing RNG puzzle, not the dungeon crawling roguelike expected.
Games like Desktop Dungeons →
Survival sandbox RPG with resource management, crafting, and exploration. Features procedural generation, base building, and combat in a magical world.
The catchProgress buries you in grinding and waiting on crafting timers for hours.
Games like Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper →
This is a standalone RTS/RPG expansion with a dark fantasy story. It features hero customization, army command, and unique faction mechanics.
The catchThe writing is poor and it wrecks the base game's story and characters.
Games like SpellForce 3 Soul Harvest →
This is a life simulation RPG with farming, crafting, and dungeon exploration. Players manage a town, build relationships, and battle monsters in a fantasy setting.
What players likedPlayers praise Rune Factory 4 Special as a definitive, balanced farming RPG with engaging combat and a deep crafting system, often compared favorably to Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon.
The catchMenus and tool switching are clunky, adding extra steps to nearly every basic action.
Games like Rune Factory 4 Special →
A 2D puzzle-platformer where players use puppet strings to navigate obstacles in a grim fairytale world. It features a story of escape and empowerment with lyrical narration.
What players likedPlayers praise this beautiful, simple, and lovely narrated platformer about a puppet's freedom.
The catchInteractable objects blend into the scenery, so puzzles turn into trial and error.
Games like A Juggler's Tale →
Grand strategy game where you play a god, expanding your dominion and fighting pretenders to ascend. Features customizable god blessings and simultaneous unit movement in large-scale battles.
What players likedPlayers praise its unique depth and freedom to pursue diverse, often dark, world-altering strategies unlike other games.
The catchA poor interface, no tutorial and heavy micromanagement make it a guide-reading slog.
Games like Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith →
Sunderfolk90% positive from 2,160 reviews20253% finish itDeck Verified
Tactical co-op RPG with flexible local/online play. Players use skill cards to strategize turn-based combat and explore a village.
What players likedSunderfolk is praised as a "Baldur's Gate" or "Gloomhaven" like board game, shining as a deep, tactical couch co-op experience with friends.
The catchDifficulty spikes brutally at the final boss, which whole groups never manage to beat.
Games like Sunderfolk →
This is a humorous point-and-click adventure game with multi-character gameplay and puzzle-solving. It features a fantasy setting with a focus on story and character interaction.
What players likedPlayers praise its old-school point-and-click style, good voice acting, and storyline, comparing it to traditional fantasy adventures.
The catchEasy to get stuck pixel-hunting; walkthrough often needed
Games like The Book of Unwritten Tales →
A point-and-click adventure game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving across parallel worlds. It offers a lengthy, story-driven experience with a rich narrative and diverse characters.
What players likedPlayers praise it as a classic, one of the greatest point-and-click adventure games with a compelling, well-written story.
The catchThe Steam version breaks on modern Windows, crashing and wrecking display settings.
Games like The Longest Journey →
Monster Hunter Stories is a turn-based RPG where you raise and bond with monsters. You explore a world, battle enemies, and uncover a story of cooperation.
What players likedPlayers praise it as a fun creature collector, often compared to old Pokémon games, offering a fresh take on the Monster Hunter universe.
The catchCombat is rock-paper-scissors with little meaningful choice
Games like Monster Hunter Stories →
Turn-based fantasy strategy game. Command armies in tactical battles, managing units and resources to conquer Keldonia.
What players likedPlayers compare it to "Civilisation combat without the cities" and praise its fun, large-scale battles with diverse units.
The catchUnits die permanently and there is no undo, so one bad move can sink a mission.
Games like Fantasy General II →
This is a fantasy RPG with deep character customization, blending magic and technology. Players explore a vast world, solve quests with multiple approaches, and engage in real-time or turn-based combat.
What players likedPlayers praise Arcanum's rich story, massive world, and unique steampunk-magic setting, comparing its basic combat and character creation to Fallout 1/2.
The catchThe Steam version needs unofficial patches to run on modern Windows and still crashes.
Games like Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura →
Real-time strategy game with procedurally generated worlds and multiplayer. Players build armies, harvest resources, and fight enemies across diverse biomes.
The catchLeaders and units barely differ, so matches turn repetitive within a couple of hours.
Games like Circle Empires Rivals →
A visual novel/point-and-click adventure with a mystical, riddle-solving feel. Players follow a jeweler's return home and his encounters with a mischievous spirit.
What players likedPlayers praise its wonderful story, characters, and art, considering it an excellent investment.
The catchOnly the first chapters exist, the story cuts off, and updates stopped years ago.
Games like The Crown of Leaves →
Conquest of Elysium 5 is a turn-based fantasy strategy game with deep faction variety and rogue-like elements. Players manage unique races with distinct mechanics to conquer a dynamic world.
What players likedPlayers praise its deep, replayable strategy and unique factions, comparing it to roguelikes, Civ 2, and auto battlers.
The catchThere is no tutorial and the clunky, unintuitive controls make learning it painful.
Games like Conquest of Elysium 5 →
Small Saga95% positive from 1,807 reviews20231% finish itDeck Playable
Turn-based tactical RPG with boss-focused combat and a story about a mouse reclaiming his tail. Features a cast of animal characters in a medieval rodent kingdom.
What players likedPlayers praise "Small Saga" as a charming, story-rich JRPG homage to GBA-era games and Berserk, with excellent music and art.
The catchHeavy-handed modern politics and internet slang repeatedly break the fantasy setting.
Games like Small Saga →
Islets95% positive from 1,800 reviews2022Deck Unsupported
A hand-painted metroidvania where you connect floating islands to explore, fight monsters, and befriend characters. Its core loop involves puzzle-like island reconnection and exploration.
What players likedPlayers praise Islets as a charming, relaxing, and approachable Metroidvania, reminiscent of old flash games, with a unique island-connecting mechanic.
The catchFloaty controls and bland, shallow gameplay make the whole thing feel forgettable.
Games like Islets →
This is a cozy visual novel where you play a tavern owner mixing magical drinks and crafting quests for fantasy characters. It offers an LGBTQ+ positive story with multiple endings and a focus on character relationships.
What players likedPlayers praise this D&D-inspired visual novel for its engaging fantasy stories, lovable queer characters, and cozy, relaxing atmosphere.
The catchThe drink mixing is too simple and mostly decorative, so choices rarely matter.
Games like Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel →
