Games like Skul: The Hero Slayer
If Skul: The Hero Slayer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy 2 and ScourgeBringer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replay value is high, tactical positioning matters and brutal. 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 →Skul: The Hero Slayer is a 2021 action indie rogue-lite platformer featuring procedural generation. Developed by SOUTHPAW GAMES and published by NEOWIZ, the game casts players as a small skeletal hero undertaking a quest against the Imperial Army to rescue his King from captivity. It offers character customization and item combination mechanics that players describe as generating a vast array of strategic possibilities. Reviewers highlight the game's high replay value and the importance of tactical positioning during combat encounters. Available at $9.99 USD, it holds a 92% positive review score from over 9,500 Steam reviews. The game is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Skul: The Hero Slayer: Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
Players who liked Skul: The Hero Slayer also play
Steam players who put hours into Skul: The Hero Slayer 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.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a brutal mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Top pick for Skul: The Hero Slayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Second-strongest match for Skul: The Hero Slayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Third-strongest match for Skul: The Hero Slayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Ranked #4 for Skul: The Hero Slayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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.
Foregone
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Skul: The Hero Slayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
Nightmare: The Lunatic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Ranked #6 for Skul: The Hero Slayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Nightmare: The Lunatic is a parrying action rogue-lite platformer game about escaping a nightmare. Constantly swap between 3 weapons, use special attacks, and avoid and parry enemy attacks. Strengthen yourself by collecting powerful and unique totems.
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Ranked #7 for Skul: The Hero Slayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Blade Assault
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Ranked #8 for Skul: The Hero Slayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Blade Assault is a 2D action rogue-lite platformer with beautiful pixel art set in a desolate sci-fi world. Fight against the corrupt military of Esperanza as part of the resistance force of the Undercity. Bring the corrupt to justice by becoming stronger and fighting alongside your trusty comrades.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Skul: The Hero Slayer
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Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Reviewers of Skul: The Hero Slayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Astral Ascent
WHY THIS
Shares character customization, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Reviewers of Skul: The Hero Slayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
Hades
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Skul: The Hero Slayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Reviewers of Skul: The Hero Slayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Revita
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Reviewers of Skul: The Hero Slayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a brutal mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Reviewers of Skul: The Hero Slayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Spiritfall
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Reviewers of Skul: The Hero Slayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Spiritfall is a fast-paced Action Roguelite with combat inspired by Platform Fighters. Slash, smash, launch, and wall-splat a multitude of enemies using an ever-changing arsenal of divine powers.
Have a Nice Death
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Reviewers of Skul: The Hero Slayer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelike where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans. In order to restore order, you'll have to grab your trusty scythe and show your employees who's boss.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Skul: The Hero Slayer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Skul: The Hero Slayer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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 ~50% under Skul: The Hero Slayer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Skul: The Hero Slayer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Skul: The Hero Slayer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Skul: The Hero Slayer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Skul: The Hero Slayer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Skul: The Hero Slayer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Skul: The Hero Slayer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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.
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 with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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 Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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 Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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 Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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 Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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.
Narrow it down
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.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a brutal mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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.
Foregone
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
Nightmare: The Lunatic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Nightmare: The Lunatic is a parrying action rogue-lite platformer game about escaping a nightmare. Constantly swap between 3 weapons, use special attacks, and avoid and parry enemy attacks. Strengthen yourself by collecting powerful and unique totems.
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Frequently asked about Skul: The Hero Slayer
- Does Skul: The Hero Slayer work on Steam Deck?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Skul: The Hero Slayer cost?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Skul: The Hero Slayer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skul: The Hero Slayer are Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy 2, ScourgeBringer.
- Who developed Skul: The Hero Slayer?
- Skul: The Hero Slayer was developed by SOUTHPAW GAMES and published by NEOWIZ.
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