Games like After Shadows
If After Shadows is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Adventures of Graham, Volkolak: The Will of Gods and Ghost Song — 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 After Shadows: After Shadows is a metroidvania with roguelike elements. Get into a distant post-apocalyptic future, where all of humanity became extinct. Explore the abandoned Fortress, look for traps and hide from Dark Monster who is chasing you.
Players who liked After Shadows also play
Steam players who put hours into After Shadows 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.
The Adventures of Graham
WHY THIS
Top pick for After Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
A sci-fi retro Metroidvania. Help Brigadier General Graham recover his gear, defeat enemies, and complete his mission.
Volkolak: The Will of Gods
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for After Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
Volkolak: The Will of Gods is an epic 2D soulsvania in a dark Slavic fantasy setting, with hand-drawn animation. Explore an enchanted world full of secrets and enemies. Your choices will lead to several endings: become a bogatyr, a werewolf, or join the darkness.
Ghost Song
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for After Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.
Voidwrought
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for After Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
The Darkest Tales
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for After Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with After Shadows.
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.
Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for After Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for After Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with After Shadows.
Watch as this nostalgic yet completely reimagined storybook world unravels before your very eyes. Taking cues from both Ghosts 'n Goblins and Ghouls 'n Ghosts and giving birth to something entirely new, Resurrection is a title worthy of its name.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below After Shadows at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under After Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows.
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 and Adventure with After Shadows.
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 After Shadows.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Shadows.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with After Shadows.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 After Shadows.
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. Shares Indie with After Shadows.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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.
Ghost Song
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.
Voidwrought
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with After Shadows.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
The Darkest Tales
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with After Shadows.
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with After Shadows.
Watch as this nostalgic yet completely reimagined storybook world unravels before your very eyes. Taking cues from both Ghosts 'n Goblins and Ghouls 'n Ghosts and giving birth to something entirely new, Resurrection is a title worthy of its name.
Frequently asked about After Shadows
- How much does After Shadows cost?
- After Shadows is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to After Shadows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside After Shadows are The Adventures of Graham, Volkolak: The Will of Gods, Ghost Song.
- Who developed After Shadows?
- After Shadows was developed by Insidious Games.
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 After Shadows.
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