Games like Souldiers
If Souldiers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blasphemous 2, Guardian of Lore and Astalon: Tears of the Earth — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its classes feel radically different, 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 Souldiers: Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.
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Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Top pick for Souldiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
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.
Guardian of Lore
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Second-strongest match for Souldiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
A mystical library houses books of ancient folktales from lost civilizations. Play as Prince Sayri, and protect these stories from wicked magic that aims to erase their memory forever. Enter each story and save it from within!
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Third-strongest match for Souldiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
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!
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Ranked #4 for Souldiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
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.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Ranked #5 for Souldiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Ranked #6 for Souldiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Afterimage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Ranked #7 for Souldiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Ranked #8 for Souldiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Souldiers
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Rayman Raving Rabbids™
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Souldiers.
Reviewers of Souldiers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Hordes of crazed out-of control bunnies have invaded, enslaving Rayman and forcing him to participate in 'gladiator' style trials. Help Rayman win his freedom back by entertaining and outwitting these fury foes. Use the most hilarious fighting moves imaginable.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Reviewers of Souldiers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Touhou Luna Nights
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Souldiers.
Reviewers of Souldiers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action. Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Souldiers at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Souldiers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Souldiers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Souldiers.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Souldiers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Souldiers.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Souldiers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Souldiers.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Souldiers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Souldiers.
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 ~65% under Souldiers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Souldiers.
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.
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 Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Souldiers.
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 Souldiers.
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 with Souldiers.
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 Adventure with Souldiers.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Head-to-head comparisons
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 Souldiers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
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.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Afterimage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and an atmospheric mood with Souldiers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Souldiers.
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
Frequently asked about Souldiers
- Is Souldiers verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Souldiers 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 Souldiers cost?
- Souldiers is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Souldiers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Souldiers are Blasphemous 2, Guardian of Lore, Astalon: Tears of the Earth.
- Who developed Souldiers?
- Souldiers was developed by Retro Forge and published by Dear Villagers.
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