Games like Kingdom Shell
If Kingdom Shell is your kind of game, the closest matches are Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight, Chronicles of the Wolf and Blasphemous 2 — 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 Kingdom Shell: Kingdom Shell is an atmospheric 2D platformer with a captivating storyline. Explore the local lands to stop the invasion of nightmarish creatures and unravel the mysteries of the Kingdom.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Top pick for Kingdom Shell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
Chronicles of the Wolf
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Second-strongest match for Kingdom Shell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Hunt the legendary Beast of Gévaudan in Chronicles of the Wolf! Step into the boots of Mateo Lombardo in this epic adventure featuring brutal bosses, vast castles, and secrets to uncover. Narration by the legendary Robert Belgrade and other special appearances!
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Third-strongest match for Kingdom Shell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Emberbane
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Ranked #4 for Kingdom Shell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Four elements. One destiny. Embark on an elemental journey inspired by tales of balance and power, reborn as a Metroidvania adventure.
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Ranked #5 for Kingdom Shell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
Haiku, the Robot
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Kingdom Shell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Ranked #7 for Kingdom Shell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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.
The Devil Within: Satgat
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Ranked #8 for Kingdom Shell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Join Kim Rip, a Royal Guard whose humanity is gradually slipping away, on a thrilling 2.5D action-adventure platforming journey in 'The Devil Within: Satgat'. Uncover the mysteries of a desolate realm as you engage in stylish battles against formidable foes.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Kingdom Shell
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Reviewers of Kingdom Shell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
The Last Faith
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Reviewers of Kingdom Shell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Reviewers of Kingdom Shell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Reviewers of Kingdom Shell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Shell.
Reviewers of Kingdom Shell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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.
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Kingdom Shell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kingdom Shell at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Kingdom Shell on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom Shell.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Kingdom Shell on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Kingdom Shell on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom Shell.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Kingdom Shell on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom Shell.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Kingdom Shell on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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?
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 Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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 Indie with Kingdom Shell.
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 Kingdom Shell.
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 Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom Shell.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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 Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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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.
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Haiku, the Robot
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
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.
The Devil Within: Satgat
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Shell.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Shell.
Join Kim Rip, a Royal Guard whose humanity is gradually slipping away, on a thrilling 2.5D action-adventure platforming journey in 'The Devil Within: Satgat'. Uncover the mysteries of a desolate realm as you engage in stylish battles against formidable foes.
Frequently asked about Kingdom Shell
- Is Kingdom Shell verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Kingdom Shell 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 Kingdom Shell cost?
- Kingdom Shell is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kingdom Shell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdom Shell are Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight, Chronicles of the Wolf, Blasphemous 2.
- Who developed Kingdom Shell?
- Kingdom Shell was developed by Cup of Pixels and published by Top Hat Studios, Inc..
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