Games like Sonzai
If Sonzai is your kind of game, the closest matches are Arcanima: Mist of Oblivion - Prologue, School Simulator RPG and Utawarerumono: ZAN 2 — 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 Sonzai: SONZAI is a story-rich, social link based RPG with combo character action & JRPG elements. The town of Kumotoshi holds secrets. A new life, new people, new spirits. What are the threads that bind people together? What is the nature of magic? All presented in a beautiful, completely hand-drawn style.
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Steam players who put hours into Sonzai 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.
Arcanima: Mist of Oblivion - Prologue
WHY THIS
Top pick for Sonzai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sonzai.
Awake your anima in this action RPG combining Hack N Slash combat with JRPG mechanics! Join the anima user 'Juno' in her journey to clear the Mist of Oblivion, shape your anima through your actions and find answers before all meaning is lost. Willpower is your only limit!
School Simulator RPG
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sonzai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sonzai.
Sara and Kenichi join as college students on Sakura city school academy. Here, they will have their adventure of friendship, love, and mysteries. Play as either a boy or girl in this virtual school simulator to interact with many friends and date a senpai.
Utawarerumono: ZAN 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Sonzai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonzai.
Hack and slash your way through the world of Utawarerumono once again! Experience the saga's climactic conclusion like never before with fast-paced combat, slick animations, and all-new exclusive scenes and side-stories!
Shining Resonance Refrain
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sonzai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Sonzai.
Play as Yuma Ilvern and stop the Empire from exploiting the power of the ancient dragons, including the soul of the Shining Dragon within you. With the help of your friends, realize your destiny, save Astoria, and unleash the strength you’ve always had locked away.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Sonzai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonzai.
A grand adventure in the skies awaits! Form a party of four from a diverse roster of skyfarers and slash—or shoot or hex—your way to victory against treacherous foes in this action RPG. Take on quests solo or with the help of others in up to 4-player co-op play!
Accel World VS. Sword Art Online Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Sonzai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Sonzai.
Svart Alfheim and the Accelerated World have begun to merge. In the midst of the chaos, Yui has gone missing. Kirito must challenge the Seven Kings of pure color from the Accelerated World to gain access to her location.
Kotama and Academy Citadel
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Sonzai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sonzai.
In the Academy Citadel, strength reigns supreme: only the most powerful survive and thrive. Fight your way through the high-tech Academy in your quest to get the highest of honors for a student, and uncover secrets that can save it in its direst crisis in this 2.5D side-scrolling Metroidvania.
SAMURAI MAIDEN
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Sonzai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonzai.
A young woman from the 21st century with sharp swordsmanship skills finds herself in Honnō-ji during the Sengoku period! Together with a trio of newfound ninja friends, she races through the Underworld beneath Honnō-ji, confronted by enraged corpses at every turn!
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ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sonzai.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sonzai.
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 Sonzai.
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 Action and Indie with Sonzai.
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 Action and Indie with Sonzai.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sonzai.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sonzai.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shining Resonance Refrain
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Sonzai.
Play as Yuma Ilvern and stop the Empire from exploiting the power of the ancient dragons, including the soul of the Shining Dragon within you. With the help of your friends, realize your destiny, save Astoria, and unleash the strength you’ve always had locked away.
Kotama and Academy Citadel
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sonzai.
In the Academy Citadel, strength reigns supreme: only the most powerful survive and thrive. Fight your way through the high-tech Academy in your quest to get the highest of honors for a student, and uncover secrets that can save it in its direst crisis in this 2.5D side-scrolling Metroidvania.
SAMURAI MAIDEN
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Sonzai.
A young woman from the 21st century with sharp swordsmanship skills finds herself in Honnō-ji during the Sengoku period! Together with a trio of newfound ninja friends, she races through the Underworld beneath Honnō-ji, confronted by enraged corpses at every turn!
Frequently asked about Sonzai
- What games are most similar to Sonzai?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sonzai are Arcanima: Mist of Oblivion - Prologue, School Simulator RPG, Utawarerumono: ZAN 2.
- Who developed Sonzai?
- Sonzai was developed by 2 Odd Diodes and published by Top Hat Studios, Inc., Shochiku, Game Bridge.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Sonzai.
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