Games like Shadow Madness
If Shadow Madness is your kind of game, the closest matches are SCARLET NEXUS, SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection and Wirewalk()↳ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic ps1 rpg feel, snappy character dialogue 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 →About Shadow Madness: The world of Arkose is in Chaos as a mysterious plague, known as "Shadow Madness", ravages the land. With no cure, it strikes without warning, leaving vile creatures and piles of dust where its victims once stood. As the one hope to this doomed land, you must stop this scourge before it stops you.
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SCARLET NEXUS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Madness.
Top pick for Shadow Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.
SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Madness.
Second-strongest match for Shadow Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
The culmination of the SWORD ART ONLINE game series, Last Recollection features the largest roster of SAO playable characters and sub scenarios!
Wirewalk()↳
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shadow Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
Wirewalk()↳ is a whimsical adventure where you raid virus-riddled systems with a very big baseball bat.
Blade Bros IMPACT!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shadow Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
"Welcome to Blade Bros Impact!, a action rpg game with several essences from the classics rpg from 16 and 32 bits era!, enjoy dynamic battle, scary bosses, get more powerful by gain levels, get swords, rods, bows, axes and so forth!".
Lost Soul Aside™
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shadow Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
Embark on an epic odyssey to save your younger sister – and the whole of humanity – from mysterious dimensional invaders from beyond the starlit skies in Lost Soul Aside™.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Madness.
Ranked #6 for Shadow Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
The spriggan known as Van Arkride, an underground professional, accepts any job, acting as detective, negotiator, or bounty hunter. Dive into the Trails series' latest chapter with intense combat, beautiful visuals, and a new alignment system in Calvard!
~Azur Ring~virgin and slave's phylacteries
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Madness.
Ranked #7 for Shadow Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
New Metroidvania + RPG adventure game. Legendary gear! Unique set, a large number of magical equipment to provide you with unlimited possibilities to equip build. Gorgeous and fluent act combo system, give you the operating space to challenge the limit!
Arisen Force: HeroTest
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Madness.
Ranked #8 for Shadow Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
Experience stylish-action battles and beautiful pixel art, summon heroes across time and space, and challenge the magic tower to save the heroic spirits and goddesses!
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FINAL FANTASY VII
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shadow Madness cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Shadow Madness.
The RPG classic FINAL FANTASY VII returns to PC, now with brand new online features!
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Madness.
Reviewers of Shadow Madness cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Shadow Madness.
At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.
CHRONO TRIGGER®
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Madness.
Reviewers of Shadow Madness cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Shadow Madness.
The timeless RPG classic returns loaded with upgrades! Journey to the forgotten past, to the far future, and to the end of time. A big adventure to save the planet, now begins…
Legend of the Moon
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shadow Madness cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
-Classic dungeon exploring action RPG -For those who get sick and tired of endless and meaningless level up we developed it so they can get nostalgic about the moment you held a controller to see the ending part when young.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadow Madness at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shadow Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Shadow Madness.
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 Shadow Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Madness.
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 Shadow Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
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 Shadow Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Madness.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Shadow Madness on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadow Madness.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Shadow Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Shadow Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
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 ~80% under Shadow Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Madness.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shadow Madness.
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 Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
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.
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 Adventure and RPG with Shadow Madness.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Shadow Madness.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Shadow Madness.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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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.
SCARLET NEXUS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Madness.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.
Lost Soul Aside™
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
Embark on an epic odyssey to save your younger sister – and the whole of humanity – from mysterious dimensional invaders from beyond the starlit skies in Lost Soul Aside™.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Madness.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Madness.
The spriggan known as Van Arkride, an underground professional, accepts any job, acting as detective, negotiator, or bounty hunter. Dive into the Trails series' latest chapter with intense combat, beautiful visuals, and a new alignment system in Calvard!
Frequently asked about Shadow Madness
- Does Shadow Madness run on Steam Deck?
- Shadow Madness is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Shadow Madness cost?
- Shadow Madness is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadow Madness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow Madness are SCARLET NEXUS, SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection, Wirewalk()↳.
- Who developed Shadow Madness?
- Shadow Madness was developed by Crave and published by Piko Interactive LLC, Bleem!.
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