Games like Black Skylands
If Black Skylands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Medieval Dynasty, Enshrouded and Smalland: Survive the Wilds — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming steampunk aesthetic, fun combat system and atmospheric. 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 →Black Skylands is a top-down open-world action RPG set across a fractured sky of floating islands. Developed by Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild, the game tasks players with commanding an airship through a steampunk world, engaging in aerial combat while exploring and gathering resources. The mechanics combine ship-based warfare with on-foot exploration, weapon customization, and a story-driven campaign. Players describe the aesthetic as charming and the world-building as interesting, with reviewers highlighting the combat system as fun. The game offers a medium-length experience at a normal difficulty for solo players. Verified for Steam Deck, Black Skylands holds an 82% positive rating from approximately 1,300 Steam reviews at a $4.99 price point.
About Black Skylands: Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
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Steam players who put hours into Black Skylands 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.
Medieval Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Skylands.
Top pick for Black Skylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Skylands.
Second-strongest match for Black Skylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Skylands.
Third-strongest match for Black Skylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
iZolated
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization, exploration and an atmospheric mood with Black Skylands.
Ranked #4 for Black Skylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Badiya: Desert Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Skylands.
Ranked #5 for Black Skylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Black Skylands.
Ranked #6 for Black Skylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Crashlands
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Ranked #7 for Black Skylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
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Ranked #8 for Black Skylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
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Stardew Valley
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Reviewers of Black Skylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Black Skylands.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Sandbox
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Reviewers of Black Skylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Skylands.
The goal of the game is to collect 22 bills. To collect them, you need to press the "play" button and move to the sandbox level.
Starvector
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Reviewers of Black Skylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Black Skylands at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Black Skylands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
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
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Priced ~60% under Black Skylands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Skylands.
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
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Priced ~70% under Black Skylands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Skylands.
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
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Priced ~80% under Black Skylands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Skylands.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Black Skylands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Skylands.
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
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Priced ~80% under Black Skylands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Black Skylands.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under Black Skylands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Skylands.
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.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Black Skylands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Skylands.
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?
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Skylands.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Black Skylands.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Black Skylands.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Black Skylands.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Black Skylands.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Skylands.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Black Skylands
- Is Black Skylands verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Black Skylands 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 Black Skylands cost?
- Black Skylands is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Black Skylands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Skylands are Medieval Dynasty, Enshrouded, Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
- Who developed Black Skylands?
- Black Skylands was developed by Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild.
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