Games like Shadoworlds
If Shadoworlds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Koi Unleashed, Lia Fail and After the Crash : Colony — 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 Shadoworlds: Krisalis Software’s gripping isometric squad-based sci-fi action RPG follows your team of four explorers as they trek through the dark environments of the Weapons Research Facility to uncover the mystery of what went wrong.
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Koi Unleashed
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Top pick for Shadoworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shadoworlds.
Koi Unleashed is a party-based RPG, with real-time combat and inspired by Japanese folklore. Join a guild that has just set foot on an unknown world, filled with mysterious creatures.
Lia Fail
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Second-strongest match for Shadoworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Shadoworlds.
Recruit adventurers, gather resources, and unlock talents. Post on the job board, and adventurers take the quests. Focus on gathering and allocating to manage everything. But at night, fog monsters eye your resources. Watch your adventurers grow from novices to legends.
After the Crash : Colony
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Third-strongest match for Shadoworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadoworlds.
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Darklight Breach
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Ranked #4 for Shadoworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shadoworlds.
FTL meets XCOM in a real-time tactical roguelite about breaching alien ships. Flank through rooms, disable systems, outmaneuver defenders, and extract with high-value loot. Fence your haul to power up and break a mysterious time loop.
Zoo Tales
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Ranked #5 for Shadoworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadoworlds.
Choose the best strategy, get supplies, and win. Survive, kill, fight the mysteries of the unknown, and experience undifferentiated strategic contests. Zoo Tales offers an exciting story and brings you a new multiplayer competitive experience.
Survive the Fall
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Ranked #6 for Shadoworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadoworlds.
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
The Riftbreaker
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Ranked #7 for Shadoworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadoworlds.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Retro Classix: Gate of Doom
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Ranked #8 for Shadoworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Shadoworlds.
Seal the Gate Of Doom forever! Gate of Doom is a classic arcade multiplayer action RPG originally released in 1990. You and a friend take on the role of one of four heroes of prophecy, the knight Carl F. Graystone, the wizard Fraya Edirne, the bard Riger Hawk, or the ninja Kirikaze.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadoworlds at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Shadoworlds on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadoworlds.
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?
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Shadoworlds on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadoworlds.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Shadoworlds on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Shadoworlds.
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 ~79% under Shadoworlds on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadoworlds.
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 ~86% under Shadoworlds on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadoworlds.
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 ~57% under Shadoworlds on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Shadoworlds.
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!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Shadoworlds on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadoworlds.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~57% under Shadoworlds on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shadoworlds.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Shadoworlds.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Shadoworlds.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Shadoworlds.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Lily's Well
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shadoworlds.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
D1AL-ogue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Become an android repair technician in a cyberpunk city where the sun never rises. Rotate the unique circular puzzle 'D1AL' and merge modules to fix their broken bodies and hearts. Your precise repair is the conversation starter. Turn the dial and listen to their stories.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadoworlds.
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.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadoworlds.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Shadoworlds
- How much does Shadoworlds cost?
- Shadoworlds is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadoworlds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadoworlds are Koi Unleashed, Lia Fail, After the Crash : Colony.
- Who developed Shadoworlds?
- Shadoworlds was developed by Krisalis Software, Teque London and published by Ziggurat.
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