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Games like Skautfold: Moonless Knight

If Skautfold: Moonless Knight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Skautfold: Into the Fray, Elderand and Bloodecay — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its alternate history lovecraftian narrative, atmospheric and challenging. 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.

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About Skautfold: Moonless Knight: Skautfold: Moonless Knight is a very open-ended Metroidvania, featuring a totally unique battle system. Set in an alternate history Japan in 1900, Lovecraftian horrors have plagued the world, as our very Moon opens up and becomes our end.

2020ActionIndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDWindowsby Steve Gal
Skautfold: Moonless Knight — Steam game cover
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Alternate history lovecraftian narrativeBosses have unique environmental weaknessesGuard system rewards precise timingAtmosphericChallengingDark

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Steam players who put hours into Skautfold: Moonless Knight 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.

  1. Skautfold: Into the Fray

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Top pick for Skautfold: Moonless Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Into the Fray is a fast action-shooter in the vein of Doom and Dark Messiah; using fast combat, reactive environments, and traps. Blast, kick, and dash your way through Rebels and Eldritch creatures to liberate the Isle of Portland; as it becomes consumed by Fog and the horrors therein.

    2018ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Elderand

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Second-strongest match for Skautfold: Moonless Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Only the strong will conquer this gruesome action platformer with RPG elements. Dismember demonic creatures and terrifying bosses by wielding brutal weapons in intense skill-based combat. Slay or be slain as you collect glory and treasure in this nightmarish 2D world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Bloodecay

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Skautfold: Moonless Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    A deadly plague known as erosion broke out in the land of Elworth. It corrupted all life, bringing pain and destruction – Idonia, as the knight accepting the bloodthirsty imprint set out on a path to redemption, exterminating plague minions and destroying ancient evils

    2023ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. CARRION

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Ranked #4 for Skautfold: Moonless Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Yellow King

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Ranked #5 for Skautfold: Moonless Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    A dark horror MMO inspired by the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. Infinite dungeon exploration, boss raids, guilds, PvP, leaderboards, and the destruction of your soul by an uncaring immortal e̵̺̙̺̥̅͆̾̽̈̇̇̂̑̊͊̽̕͜͝lde̸̮͔̞̮͖͖̙̍̒̽̓r̶̨̹̠̪̫͓̻͍̥͇̄͌͂̋̊̚ g̶̩̮̙̾̎̌̋̎͌͘͠oḓ̸̛̮̦̮͎͖̖͖͕͊͋̉̂́͛ slowly devouring the universe.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Infernax

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Ranked #6 for Skautfold: Moonless Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dark Devotion

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Ranked #7 for Skautfold: Moonless Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dolmen

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Ranked #8 for Skautfold: Moonless Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Dolmen is a terrifying new action RPG that combines futuristic Sci-Fi and Cosmic Horror elements. Will your timeline be erased or will you defeat your enemies to survive and fulfil your mission?

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Skautfold: Moonless Knight

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Salt and Sanctuary

    WHY THIS

    Shares metroidvania exploration and an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Reviewers of Skautfold: Moonless Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieRPG17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Skautfold: Usurper

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Reviewers of Skautfold: Moonless Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Usurper is a Metroidvania Action-RPG. With Eldritch horrors having been unleashed by the outer-worldly Citadel, your job is to rid London of its terrors. Use the new "Guard" system that rewards skillful play and accuracy, to uncover the massive structure and defeat the nightmares lurking within.

    2018ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Skautfold: Into the Fray

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Reviewers of Skautfold: Moonless Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Into the Fray is a fast action-shooter in the vein of Doom and Dark Messiah; using fast combat, reactive environments, and traps. Blast, kick, and dash your way through Rebels and Eldritch creatures to liberate the Isle of Portland; as it becomes consumed by Fog and the horrors therein.

    2018ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Skautfold: Moonless Knight at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Skautfold: Moonless Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Skautfold: Moonless Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Skautfold: Moonless Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Skautfold: Moonless Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Skautfold: Moonless Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Skautfold: Moonless Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Skautfold: Moonless Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Skautfold: Moonless Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Steve Gal

Other recommendable Steam games by Steve Gal, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Another title from Steve Gal, the studio behind Skautfold: Moonless Knight. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Skautfold: Usurper

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Another title from Steve Gal, the studio behind Skautfold: Moonless Knight. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Usurper is a Metroidvania Action-RPG. With Eldritch horrors having been unleashed by the outer-worldly Citadel, your job is to rid London of its terrors. Use the new "Guard" system that rewards skillful play and accuracy, to uncover the massive structure and defeat the nightmares lurking within.

    2018ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Shrouded in Sanity: Freebirth

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Another title from Steve Gal, the studio behind Skautfold: Moonless Knight. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Free version of Shrouded in Sanity. Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. Servants roaming the halls will attack on sight, for a strange and repelling madness took hold... one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.

    2018ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  4. Skautfold: Into the Fray

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Another title from Steve Gal, the studio behind Skautfold: Moonless Knight. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Into the Fray is a fast action-shooter in the vein of Doom and Dark Messiah; using fast combat, reactive environments, and traps. Blast, kick, and dash your way through Rebels and Eldritch creatures to liberate the Isle of Portland; as it becomes consumed by Fog and the horrors therein.

    2018ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Skautfold: Knight's End

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Another title from Steve Gal, the studio behind Skautfold: Moonless Knight. Shares Indie and Adventure with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Skautfold: Knight's End is the final chapter in the Skautfold series. Explore the Waltham Industries factory and uncover its dark secrets; with a unique timeline-based RPG battle system, you'll come face-to-face with Eldritch horrors as humanity reaches its final days on Earth...

    2021IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Elderand

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Only the strong will conquer this gruesome action platformer with RPG elements. Dismember demonic creatures and terrifying bosses by wielding brutal weapons in intense skill-based combat. Slay or be slain as you collect glory and treasure in this nightmarish 2D world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. CARRION

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Infernax

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

    Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Skautfold: Moonless Knight

How much does Skautfold: Moonless Knight cost?
Skautfold: Moonless Knight is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Skautfold: Moonless Knight?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skautfold: Moonless Knight are Skautfold: Into the Fray, Elderand, Bloodecay.
Who developed Skautfold: Moonless Knight?
Skautfold: Moonless Knight was developed by Steve Gal and published by Pugware.

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 Skautfold: Moonless Knight.

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