Games like Skyward Descent
If Skyward Descent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eyeb, Sword vs Horde and Trapped In Here With Me — 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.
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Eyeb
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Top pick for Skyward Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Skyward Descent.
Eyeb is an action packed tower defense-like that pits a young space cadet's bionic eyeball against a harrowing nano-bot invasion. Push out, explore, power up and drop a trillion towers for the glory of facing off with the diabolical Nano-Lord. You can also go fishing in space.
Sword vs Horde
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Skyward Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
A melee based horde survival game. You are a knight wielding an oversized greatsword. Whirl it around in circles and use your blade's momentum to slash through endless hordes of monsters. But take care! You'll get dizzy from all the spinning!
Trapped In Here With Me
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Skyward Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Heart-pounding arcade shooter.
Comet Force
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Ranked #4 for Skyward Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Skyward Descent.
Comet Force is a Space Arena Shooter Action Roguelite. Build your camp, recruit to compose and grow your troop, collect upgrades and unique effects, fight enemies and bosses, and choose how the threat evolves. Keep your troop strong enough to survive all waves and close off the anomaly.
Pirates of Gravitae
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Ranked #5 for Skyward Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Dogfighting seadogs! Command a rocket propelled pirate ship in this aerial combat roguelike, in 2.5D! Equip your ship, train your crew, optimize your build, get blown up, and do it all again!
Against Great Darkness
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Ranked #6 for Skyward Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Against Great Darkness is a brick-breaking, bullet hell, roguelite where you play as a pagan trying to escape Hell's maw. Trigger relics by keeping your disks bouncing, experience unique events where you can obtain incredible loot, and battle hellish bosses while always keeping an eye on your disks.
Danger Scavenger
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Ranked #7 for Skyward Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Danger Scavenger is fast-paced action, cyberpunk-themed, roguelite skyline crawler. Blow up, cut, shoot enemy robots on the roofs of skyscrapers. Choose your way to higher levels, loot, buy stuff, upgrade yourself, fight against greedy corporations, be a rebel!
Windowkill
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Ranked #8 for Skyward Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Skyward Descent at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Skyward Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
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 ~50% under Skyward Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Skyward Descent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skyward Descent.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Skyward Descent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skyward Descent.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Skyward Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skyward Descent.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Skyward Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Skyward Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Skyward Descent on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skyward Descent.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Skyward Descent.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skyward Descent.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Skyward Descent.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Skyward Descent
- How much does Skyward Descent cost?
- Skyward Descent is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Skyward Descent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skyward Descent are Eyeb, Sword vs Horde, Trapped In Here With Me.
- Who developed Skyward Descent?
- Skyward Descent was developed by Brandon JS Lea.
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