Games like Nightshade
If Nightshade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000, Cave Story+ and Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour — 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 Nightshade: The shadows of doom grow long as the ancient Egyptian villain Sutekh envelops Metro City with a wave of crime. But Sutekh's seedy underworld is about to be infiltrated by a superhero unlike the world has even seen. A superhero who can melt into the darkness like a phantom.
Players who liked Nightshade also play
Steam players who put hours into Nightshade 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.
Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000
WHY THIS
Top pick for Nightshade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Paddle your balls! The hypergalaxy's premiere video table tennis role playing experience. Explore the hypergalaxies in the year 3000 or so to become the ultimate paddle champion. Learn new skills, cast devastating spells and put someone's underwear on your head whist riding a swamp beast!
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nightshade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nightshade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Frag like it’s 1996 – this time with even more asses to kick! Join the world’s greatest action hero in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour as he saves Earth once again, kicking alien ass and saving babes across the globe along the way.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nightshade at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Nightshade on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nightshade.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nightshade on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nightshade.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Nightshade on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nightshade on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nightshade.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Nightshade on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nightshade.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Nightshade on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nightshade.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Nightshade on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nightshade.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Nightshade on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nightshade.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
You Have to Win the Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nightshade.
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
Genius Greedy Mouse
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
GENIUS GREEDY MOUSE is a clay based puzzle game featuring a host of fun and challenging levels.
Chester One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Now FREE and worth every penny! A love letter to classic platforming action and 90s animation oddness. Eat magical candies to change the art of the world around you as you fight through 40 levels unlocking new Chesters, battling strange baddies, finding secret secrets, and reclaiming your cupcakes!
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nightshade.
THE LEGEND BEGINS
Super Dungeon Master Ace RPG
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Play the top-down RPG-Maker version of Dungeon Master and battle your way through over 30 levels and 20 hours of classic dungeon crawling. ZO KATH RA!
Karma Miwa
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
A fun platformer with two fragile flightless birds, which have gone for long and now try to find each other again.
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Beam Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Beam Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Krush Kill ‘N Destroy 2: Krossfire
WHY THIS
Another title from Beam Software, the studio behind Nightshade.
Krush Kill 'N Destroy 2: Krossfire is a fast and furious post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game where you have to be quick or be dead. Play as one of three unique factions in the struggle to seek out and conquer oil fields to fuel your army.
The Dame Was Loaded
WHY THIS
Another title from Beam Software, the studio behind Nightshade. Shares Adventure with Nightshade.
An adventure set in the world of a 1940s private eye. Dames are trouble, but trouble is your business. In a sleazy world of corrupt officials, stolen diamonds, lust and murder, you must solve the case and stay alive.
Radical Rex
WHY THIS
Another title from Beam Software, the studio behind Nightshade. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Radical Rex is a fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus on a skateboard who has to save the dinosaur race under the spell of an evil creature.
Power Punch II
WHY THIS
Another title from Beam Software, the studio behind Nightshade. Shares Action with Nightshade.
It's the year 2006. You're Mark "Tough Guy" Tyler and you've just defended your your Heavyweight title from the 9th consecutive time. After demolishing the best boxers on the planet. It's now time to face-off with the best in the Universe.
Alien Earth
WHY THIS
Another title from Beam Software, the studio behind Nightshade. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
The evil Raksha have taken over the Earth. They hunt humans for sport - and you're next! Can the hunted become the hunter....?
DethKarz
WHY THIS
Another title from Beam Software, the studio behind Nightshade. Shares Action with Nightshade.
You're one of the elite racers chosen to compete at exotic locations around the world and beyond. Strap yourself into a fusion-powered racing machine for an explosive and exhilarating futuristic racing experience.
Bop'N Wrestle
WHY THIS
Another title from Beam Software, the studio behind Nightshade. Shares Action with Nightshade.
Grapple your way to the top as Gorgeous Greg in this colorful classic, hailed as one of the first great pro wrestling games. BOP'N WRESTLE puts you in the ring with 10 of the meanest, baddest, biggest, toughest, ugliest pro wrestlers ever to fly off a turnbuckle!
Penetrator
WHY THIS
Another title from Beam Software, the studio behind Nightshade. Shares Action with Nightshade.
In this addictive side-scrolling shoot-em-up from 1982, your mission is to penetrate through four defence rings, and blow up an illegal cache of neutron bombs - an almost impossible feat! Enemy missiles and radar bases track your movements, and the landscape is as treacherous as your enemies.
Frequently asked about Nightshade
- How much does Nightshade cost?
- Nightshade is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nightshade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightshade are Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000, Cave Story+, Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour.
- Who developed Nightshade?
- Nightshade was developed by Beam Software and published by Piko Interactive LLC, Bleem!.
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 Nightshade.
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