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Games like Stray Blade

If Stray Blade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Coral & The Abyss, Anima Song from the Abyss and WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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.

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About Stray Blade: Stray Blade is an action-adventure where you play a rogue Adventurer exploring the ancient Valley of Acrea with your companion, the Xhinnon wolf Boji. Unveil the history of the forgotten valley and master the powers of the three Acrean Metals to restore balance to this war-torn land.

2023ActionAdventureRPG19.99 USDWindowsby Point Blank Games
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Steam players who put hours into Stray Blade 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.

  1. Coral & The Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Stray Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    Explore a shattered, interconnected world filled with hidden secrets, challenging enemies, lost memories, and the eerie remnants of a failed mission.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure0.79 USDSteam ↗
  2. Anima Song from the Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Stray Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books. Explore a deep and multifaceted story where your choices and actions directly impact the journey and decide the fate of the characters.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Third-strongest match for Stray Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blade of Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Stray Blade.

    Ranked #4 for Stray Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.

    2021ActionRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Surge 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Ranked #5 for Stray Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.

    2019ActionRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Pharaonic

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Ranked #6 for Stray Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    Embark on a journey of exploration and violence in the Two Lands of Egypt with Pharaonic! This unforgiving Combat RPG features an streamlined and challenging combat system that will keep you on your toes while fighting for your life!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. MIO: Memories in Orbit

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Ranked #7 for Stray Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    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.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Surge

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Ranked #8 for Stray Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.

    2017ActionRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Stray Blade

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. SOULS

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Stray Blade.

    Reviewers of Stray Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Stray Blade.

    One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?

    2017IndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Stray Blade.

    Reviewers of Stray Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    The hit RPG returns! Remastered with stunning visuals and refined gameplay Re-Reckoning delivers intense, customizable RPG combat inside a sprawling game world.

    2020ActionRPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. ELDEN RING

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Reviewers of Stray Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.

    2022ActionRPG59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. World of Witchcraft

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Stray Blade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    Immerse yourself in a world where ambition, magic, and lust intertwine.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stray Blade at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Stray Blade on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Stray Blade on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Stray Blade on Steam right now. Shares Action with Stray Blade.

    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.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Stray Blade on Steam right now. Shares Action with Stray Blade.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Stray Blade on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Stray Blade on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Stray Blade on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Stray Blade.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Stray Blade on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Stray Blade.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Stray Blade.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Stray Blade.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Stray Blade.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Stray Blade.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Stray Blade.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Stray Blade.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Blade of Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Stray Blade.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.

    2021ActionRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Surge 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Stray Blade.

    In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.

    2019ActionRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Pharaonic

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    Embark on a journey of exploration and violence in the Two Lands of Egypt with Pharaonic! This unforgiving Combat RPG features an streamlined and challenging combat system that will keep you on your toes while fighting for your life!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. MIO: Memories in Orbit

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stray Blade.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Stray Blade.

    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.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Stray Blade

Does Stray Blade work on Steam Deck?
Stray Blade is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Stray Blade cost?
Stray Blade is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Stray Blade?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stray Blade are Coral & The Abyss, Anima Song from the Abyss, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers.
Who developed Stray Blade?
Stray Blade was developed by Point Blank Games and published by 505 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 Stray Blade.

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