Games like Katana Kata
If Katana Kata is your kind of game, the closest matches are Half Sword, Paint the Town Red and First Cut: Samurai Duel — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its japanese swordsmanship culture shines, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Katana Kata: Indie souls-like with innovative fight system where you practice your Katana on the path for endless improvement; again and again.
Players who liked Katana Kata also play
Steam players who put hours into Katana Kata 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.
Half Sword
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Katana Kata.
Top pick for Katana Kata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
Half Sword is a physics-based medieval combat simulator featuring historically accurate XV-century arms and armor. We are not afraid to show the brutal nature of medieval combat with in-depth blood and gore features.
Paint the Town Red
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Katana Kata.
Second-strongest match for Katana Kata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.
First Cut: Samurai Duel
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Katana Kata.
Third-strongest match for Katana Kata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
Every strike is lethal in this blood-soaked sword fighting game. Slash, clash, parry, dodge and watch limbs fly. Choose your move carefully - the first cut is also the last.
GORN
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Katana Kata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
GORN is a ludicrously violent VR gladiator simulator, made by Free Lives, the developers of Broforce and Genital Jousting.
MORDHAU
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Katana Kata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.
Gladius | Gladiator VR Sword fighting
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Katana Kata.
Ranked #6 for Katana Kata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
Gladius is an immersive VR sword fighting game set in ancient Rome. As a gladiator, you will choose your weapons, train against different enemies, and finally fight for your freedom in an epic battle against the mightiest warriors and mythical creatures of the time. Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.
FOR HONOR™
WHY THIS
Shares stamina management and an intense mood with Katana Kata.
Ranked #7 for Katana Kata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Katana Kata.
Fight alone or with friends in For Honor, a third-person hero-based melee fighting game. Enter the chaos of war as a Knight, a Viking, a Samurai, a Wu Lin, or an Outlander. Fight in brutal PvP and team-oriented modes, or play the thrilling story campaign.
Die by the Blade
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Katana Kata.
Ranked #8 for Katana Kata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
Vanquish your foes with a single strike in 1v1 weapon-based fighter Die by the Blade. Dive into a samuraipunk world and wield a range of traditional Japanese weapons to determine your moveset. Outwit your opponent in intense, tactical battles and master the art of the one-hit kill!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Katana Kata
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Nother: an indie souls-like
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Katana Kata cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
Enter the dangerous open world of Nother.
Russia Roguelike
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Katana Kata cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
Rougelike game about a peasant, relised TV lies to him. He decided to explain that Russia is better than TV tells about it. This game is about journey from faraway place to Moscow. Use your garden tools to clean your path from mutants.
RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Katana Kata cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Katana Kata.
A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying combos. Stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until all the coins drop.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Katana Kata at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Katana Kata on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Katana Kata.
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 ~67% under Katana Kata on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Katana Kata on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Katana Kata.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Katana Kata on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Katana Kata on Steam right now. Shares Action with Katana Kata.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Katana Kata on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Katana Kata.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Katana Kata on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Katana Kata.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Katana Kata on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Katana Kata.
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.
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 Katana Kata.
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 Katana Kata.
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 Katana Kata.
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 Katana Kata.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Katana Kata.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Katana Kata.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Stas Shostak
Other recommendable Steam games by Stas Shostak, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Titan Chaser
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Katana Kata.
Another title from Stas Shostak, the studio behind Katana Kata. Shares Indie with Katana Kata.
Titan Chaser is a surreal driving and walking experience, meant to evoke a feeling of being lost and discovering something mystical at your own pace instead of structured gameplay mechanics. Your job here is to scout giant creatures and scare them away without fighting or killing.
Tribal Pass
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Katana Kata.
Another title from Stas Shostak, the studio behind Katana Kata. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.
Save One More
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Katana Kata.
Another title from Stas Shostak, the studio behind Katana Kata. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
Save One More is a heal'em up game about combat medic, where your task is to save lives instead of taking them
JASEM: Just Another Shooter with Electronic Music
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Katana Kata.
Another title from Stas Shostak, the studio behind Katana Kata. Shares Action and Indie with Katana Kata.
JASEM is insanely hard and ridiculously unforgiving low-poly twin-stick arcade blastathon set to an electronic beat and filled with bright explosions and neon effects.
Frequently asked about Katana Kata
- How much does Katana Kata cost?
- Katana Kata is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Katana Kata?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Katana Kata are Half Sword, Paint the Town Red, First Cut: Samurai Duel.
- Who developed Katana Kata?
- Katana Kata was developed by Stas Shostak, Alexander Sitnikov and published by Stas Shostak.
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