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Games like Bucket Knight

If Bucket Knight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stimuli, Dungeon Scale and Qualification as Rogue — 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.

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About Bucket Knight: Bucket Knight: A pixelated platformer adventure! Help the valiant knight find the Holy Grail, make money to pay his loan, and survive deadly dungeons. Shoot enemies, avoid traps, and collect treasures. Classic run-and-gun action awaits!

2019ActionIndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDWindowsby PigeonDev
Bucket Knight — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Bucket 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. Stimuli

    WHY THIS

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

    Stimuli is a Sci-Fi Action Platformer where you are a test subject trapped in a mysterious laboratory and must escape! With a new mechanic added every level, a challenging combat system, and well hidden Easter Eggs, the game delivers fast paced adventure in a sleek indie style!

    2020ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Dungeon Scale

    WHY THIS

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

    Dungeon Scale is a couch multiplayer dungeon scaling game for 2-4 players that’s inspired by the coin collecting classics of our age. Dungeon Scale’s core mechanics are simple yet fun, reach the top of the dungeon before your opponents, whilst collecting as many goodies as you can.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Qualification as Rogue

    WHY THIS

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

    A platformer combining fun controls and puzzles to solve traps

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. 99 Levels To Hell

    WHY THIS

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

    99 Levels to Hell is a platform shooter with lots of guns, upgrades, magic, traps and monsters to kill. 99 Levels to Hell is a rogue-like, which means surviving is key and every time you play you get a new set of levels to play. When you complete 10 levels, the 10th being a boss-fight you unlock a door to the next dungeon.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Slime-san: Superslime Edition

    WHY THIS

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

    Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Blade of the Netherworld

    WHY THIS

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

    Blade of the Netherworld is a fast-paced 2D Roguelite platformer. Don divine masks as a Yin-Yang Enforcer, slashing through the underworld to defeat gods, demons, and spirits. Combine a variety of items, master combat skills, and create limitless, high-speed carnage with a free-form action system.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Endorlight

    WHY THIS

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

    Endorlight is rogue-like game in which you have to find a way out to the next level. Each level contains a new and tougher enemies. Used your axe, bow or whip to defeat them! Collect gold, goes to higher levels and kill many enemies as possible and be the best on Steam Leaderboar

    2016ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Sunblaze

    WHY THIS

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

    Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Bucket Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bucket 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 ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Bucket Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bucket Knight.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Bucket Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bucket Knight.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Bucket Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Bucket Knight.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bucket Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bucket Knight.

    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.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Bucket Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bucket Knight.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bucket Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bucket Knight.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Bucket Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bucket Knight.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Bucket Knight.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Bucket 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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Bucket 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 ↗

More from PigeonDev

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

  1. Voxel Tanks

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PigeonDev, the studio behind Bucket Knight. Shares Action and Indie with Bucket Knight.

    Voxel Tanks - hardcore and dynamic top-down arena shooter with voxel graphics and chiptune music.

    2018ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Awesome Pea

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PigeonDev, the studio behind Bucket Knight. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bucket Knight.

    Help the greedy Pea to make his way through a string of levels filled with deadly traps and cute but dangerous enemies and collect all the coins to which he can only reach!

    2018IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Witchcrafty

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PigeonDev, the studio behind Bucket Knight. Shares Action and Indie with Bucket Knight.

    Witchcrafty is a metroidvania platformer with magical action gameplay, exploration of a weird world, and adorable pixel art graphics. Help the little witch solve the mystery of strange events in the Kingdom, and defeat enemies with fire, lightning, and ice magic.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Explosive Jake

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PigeonDev, the studio behind Bucket Knight. Shares Indie with Bucket Knight.

    Help the little skeleton to explode the way out from dark dungeon and not explode himself

    2019Indie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Awesome Pea 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PigeonDev, the studio behind Bucket Knight. Shares Indie with Bucket Knight.

    Greedy Pea is back in game! Dark dungeons, deadly traps, everything is green, a lot of gold everywhere!

    2020Indie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Dungeons & Bombs

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PigeonDev, the studio behind Bucket Knight. Shares Indie with Bucket Knight.

    Dungeons & Bombs - challenging puzzle game where you need to save your king (or princess?...i am not quite sure) and not to blast yourself up

    2020Indie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Hero Survival

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PigeonDev, the studio behind Bucket Knight. Shares Action and Indie with Bucket Knight.

    Hero Survival is an action-roguelite where you have to shoot down hordes of monsters from classic horror movies one by one to please the Mad Time God. Choose from a variety of skills, weapons, and items to create a unique build for every bizarre character.

    2023ActionIndieRPG5.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Awesome Pea 3

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PigeonDev, the studio behind Bucket Knight.

    Awesome Pea is a fast precision platformer where you must run&jump through a series of challenging stages

    2023Casual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Bucket Knight

How much does Bucket Knight cost?
Bucket Knight is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Bucket Knight?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bucket Knight are Stimuli, Dungeon Scale, Qualification as Rogue.
Who developed Bucket Knight?
Bucket Knight was developed by PigeonDev.

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 Bucket Knight.

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