Games like Cathedral
If Cathedral is your kind of game, the closest matches are Alwa's Awakening, OUTBUDDIES DX and Cyber Shadow — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and retro. 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 Cathedral: Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Players who liked Cathedral also play
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Alwa's Awakening
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Top pick for Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cathedral.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
OUTBUDDIES DX
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Second-strongest match for Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Cyber Shadow
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cathedral.
Third-strongest match for Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.
The Mummy Demastered
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania progression and an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Ranked #4 for Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Cathedral.
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
Chasm
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cathedral.
Ranked #5 for Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Cathedral.
Ranked #6 for Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Aggelos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Ranked #7 for Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Ranked #8 for Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Cathedral
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The Messenger
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cathedral cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Reviewers of Cathedral cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Nother: an indie souls-like
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cathedral cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Enter the dangerous open world of Nother.
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Cathedral.
Reviewers of Cathedral cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Cathedral.
Reviewers of Cathedral cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cathedral.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cathedral.
Reviewers of Cathedral cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Wonder Boy Returns Remix
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Cathedral.
Reviewers of Cathedral cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cathedral.
Wonder Boy Returns Remix is remaked by remix with original Wonder Boy and Wonder Boy Returns Released 13 Oct, 2016 in steam.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cathedral.
Reviewers of Cathedral cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cathedral at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cathedral.
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 Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
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 Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cathedral.
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 Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
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 Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cathedral.
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
Priced ~58% under Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cathedral.
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 Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cathedral.
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 Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cathedral.
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 Cathedral.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cathedral.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Cathedral.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cathedral.
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 Cathedral.
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.
Alwa's Awakening
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cathedral.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
OUTBUDDIES DX
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Cyber Shadow
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cathedral.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.
Chasm
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cathedral.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Cathedral.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cathedral.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Frequently asked about Cathedral
- Does Cathedral run on Steam Deck?
- Cathedral 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 Cathedral cost?
- Cathedral is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cathedral?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cathedral are Alwa's Awakening, OUTBUDDIES DX, Cyber Shadow.
- Who developed Cathedral?
- Cathedral was developed by Decemberborn Interactive.
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 Cathedral.
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