Games like Balkadia
If Balkadia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Belle Boomerang, Proxyma and Jack Dragon and the Stone of Peace — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Balkadia: Balkadia is a difficult 2D action-platformer featuring 8-directional whip mechanics. For fans of "Classicvania" and "Supervania".
Players who liked Balkadia also play
Steam players who put hours into Balkadia 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.
Belle Boomerang
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Top pick for Balkadia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Balkadia.
A fast-action platformer packed with beautiful pixel art and exciting variation in every level!
Proxyma
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Second-strongest match for Balkadia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Balkadia.
Proxyma is a hardcore retro-style 2D platformer that challenges you to finish 13 increasingly hard levels in a single run.
Jack Dragon and the Stone of Peace
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Third-strongest match for Balkadia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Balkadia.
Jack Dragon is a retro game love letter to 80 and 90s arcade games. Avoid nasties, jump on platforms, glide around the screen and collect gems! Sounds easy, right?
Onion Assault
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Ranked #4 for Balkadia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Balkadia.
The evil Croquetto Empire is trying to conquer Onionia and it's up to one brave onion farmer, and his mom, to stop the tyrannical invading fascist army! Old-school 2D platfoming from the creator of Gunman Clive and Mechstermination Force.
Rescue: The Beagles
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Ranked #5 for Balkadia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Balkadia.
A challenging retro arcade platformer/runner with unique parallax based gameplay. Rescue adorable doggies from an evil biohazard brigade in an intense, fast paced parkour through colorful procedurally generated levels.
8 Bit Space
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Ranked #6 for Balkadia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Balkadia.
8 Bit Space is a 2D platformer inspired by games from the 8-bit era of gaming and with particular emphasis on the ZX Spectrum. Explore 25 alien planets in the search of a way to power a newly discovered ancient portal, where will it lead?
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
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Ranked #7 for Balkadia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Balkadia.
A legend returns in stunning new detail with Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX! Fire up your power bracelet and relive a platforming classic alongside new modes, levels and features!
Below The Ocean
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Ranked #8 for Balkadia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Balkadia.
Dive into the world 'Below the Ocean'! Master thrilling moves like tether-swinging, bubble-jumping, bungee-bouncing, and sling-shot in a mesmerizing underwater adventure. Solve intriguing puzzles and seek hidden treasures. Are you ready to embark on this unforgettable journey?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Balkadia at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under Balkadia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Balkadia.
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
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Priced ~58% under Balkadia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Balkadia.
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.
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Priced ~42% under Balkadia on Steam right now. Shares Action with Balkadia.
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.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~63% under Balkadia on Steam right now. Shares Action with Balkadia.
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
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Priced ~48% under Balkadia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Balkadia.
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!
How to Fish
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Priced ~59% under Balkadia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Balkadia.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under Balkadia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Balkadia.
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
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Priced ~58% under Balkadia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Balkadia.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Balkadia.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Balkadia.
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 Balkadia.
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 Balkadia.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Balkadia.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Balkadia.
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.
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Frequently asked about Balkadia
- How much does Balkadia cost?
- Balkadia is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Balkadia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Balkadia are Belle Boomerang, Proxyma, Jack Dragon and the Stone of Peace.
- Who developed Balkadia?
- Balkadia was developed by Max Health Studios.
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