Games like First Samurai
If First Samurai is your kind of game, the closest matches are Second Samurai, BLADECHIMERA and LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 — 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 First Samurai: In ancient Japan, a young samurai watches as his people and his Master are massacred by the hands of the Demon King. He swears vengeance and invokes the power of the Witch... Thus begins the pursuit of the Demon King through space and time - a bloody crusade where there is no turning back...
Players who liked First Samurai also play
Steam players who put hours into First Samurai 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.
Second Samurai
WHY THIS
Top pick for First Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
Experience the ultimate in martial arts mayhem as the Samurai confronts the Demon King in an all action adventure that's full of Eastern promise. Combining beat'em up combat with platform puzzling and awesomely evil level bosses, Second Samurai is a monster of a game!
BLADECHIMERA
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for First Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with First Samurai.
Explore a dark and sinister Osaka as the Demon Hunter Shin. Battle demons, regain lost skills, and uncover the truth of your forgotten past in this exciting occult-inspired cyberpunk metroidvania.
LIZARDS MUST DIE 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for First Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 is a cooperative slasher action game, a high–quality continuation of the SENSATIONAL first part. Insidious lizards attacked the lands of the Rus again. HYPERBOREA is on fire and only the GLORIOUS HEROES can kick the invaders from their homeland.
Unruly Heroes
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for First Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for First Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for First Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
Strider returns in a brand new adventure, complete with incredible side-scrolling action, and lightning fast combat all in a massive interconnected world! Download the full game February 19th and become the original assassin!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below First Samurai at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under First Samurai on Steam right now. Shares Action with First Samurai.
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 ~42% under First Samurai on Steam right now. Shares Action with First Samurai.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under First Samurai on Steam right now. Shares Action with First Samurai.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under First Samurai on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
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 ~75% under First Samurai on Steam right now. Shares Action with First Samurai.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under First Samurai on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with First Samurai.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under First Samurai on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with First Samurai.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under First Samurai on Steam right now. Shares Action with First Samurai.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with First Samurai.
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 First Samurai.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with First Samurai.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with First Samurai.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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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.
BLADECHIMERA
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with First Samurai.
Explore a dark and sinister Osaka as the Demon Hunter Shin. Battle demons, regain lost skills, and uncover the truth of your forgotten past in this exciting occult-inspired cyberpunk metroidvania.
Unruly Heroes
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with First Samurai.
Strider returns in a brand new adventure, complete with incredible side-scrolling action, and lightning fast combat all in a massive interconnected world! Download the full game February 19th and become the original assassin!
Frequently asked about First Samurai
- How much does First Samurai cost?
- First Samurai is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to First Samurai?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside First Samurai are Second Samurai, BLADECHIMERA, LIZARDS MUST DIE 2.
- Who developed First Samurai?
- First Samurai was developed by Vivid Image and published by Piko Interactive LLC, Bleem!.
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 First Samurai.
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