Games like Just King
If Just King is your kind of game, the closest matches are SHPR, Centipede Gun and Castle Warriors — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its innovative blend of mechanics, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 Just King: Just King is an action auto-battler with roguelike elements. Assemble your party to venture into different lands fighting fearsome kings and their deadly armies. Use your loot to hire and upgrade mighty heroes... or the bard.
Players who liked Just King also play
Steam players who put hours into Just King 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.
SHPR
WHY THIS
Top pick for Just King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Just King.
SHPR is an arena survival roguelike in which you have to buy items while creating amazing builds and synergies that will help you defeat enemies and bosses to be able to pass to the next stages.
Centipede Gun
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Just King.
Second-strongest match for Just King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Just King.
Centipede Gun is a roguelite autobattler where you create bizzare creatures to face hordes of enemies! Combine different guns, modules and skills to make unique synergies and upgrade your cute little destruction machine!
Castle Warriors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Just King.
Third-strongest match for Just King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Just King.
Castle Warriors is a rogue like auto battler with a strategy twist. Build your army one card at a time!
Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Just King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Just King.
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Hand of Fate
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Just King.
Ranked #5 for Just King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Just King.
Deckbuilding comes to life in Hand of Fate! An infinitely replayable series of quests - earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it! In a cabin at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate.
FORCED SHOWDOWN
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Just King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Just King.
Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.
Backpack Hero
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Just King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Just King.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Just King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Just King.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Just King
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Dota Underlords
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Just King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Casual with Just King.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Just King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Just King.
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!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Just King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Just King.
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.
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Just King.
Reviewers of Just King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Just King.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Just King at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Just King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Just King.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Just King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Just King.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Just King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Just King.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Just King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Just King.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Just King on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Just King.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Just King on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Just King.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Just King on Steam right now. Shares Action with Just King.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Just King on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Just King.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Just King.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Just King.
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 Just King.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Just King.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Just King.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Just King.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Just King.
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Backpack Hero
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Just King.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Just King.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
Frequently asked about Just King
- Is Just King verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Just King is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Just King cost?
- Just King is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Just King?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Just King are SHPR, Centipede Gun, Castle Warriors.
- Who developed Just King?
- Just King was developed by VISH and published by VISH, IndieArk.
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