Games like Nine Sols
If Nine Sols is your kind of game, the closest matches are Omen Fall, MIO: Memories in Orbit and Nonu — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its art style is stunning, boss fights are challenging and combat is satisfying. 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 →Nine Sols is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure developed by RedCandleGames. Players explore an eastern fantasy setting once home to an ancient alien race while pursuing a vengeful hero's quest to defeat nine formidable rulers. The game combines metroidvania exploration with Sekiro-inspired parry combat, where precise timing lets players deflect enemy attacks. A dash ability, skill tree, and lore collection items flesh out the progression systems alongside demanding boss encounters. Reviewers note the combat feels satisfying and the parry system proves addictive, while players describe the experience as intense, emotionally resonant, and tense. The game runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 96% positive rating from over 17,800 Steam reviews at $29.99.
About Nine Sols: Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Players who liked Nine Sols also play
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Omen Fall
WHY THIS
Top pick for Nine Sols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Omen Fall is an action-packed, story-driven fantasy adventure game that draws players into a past woven with forgotten agreements. Fight against the darkness in this 2D metroidvania experience presented with pixel art graphics.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nine Sols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
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.
Nonu
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nine Sols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Nonu is a hand-drawn 2D souls-like where every action draws from two interlinked resources-one born from inner strength, the other granted by a higher power. Explore a dying world, uncover artifacts that enable distinct builds, and piece together the truth behind its vanished god.
Crypt Custodian
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, boss fights and an emotional mood with Nine Sols.
Ranked #4 for Nine Sols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nine Sols.
Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares lore collection and a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Ranked #5 for Nine Sols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Aestik
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Ranked #6 for Nine Sols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Make impactful decisions in moral dilemma situations, which will change the course of your journey through this atmospheric, hand-drawn metroidvania. Explore the hazardous paths of the Realm of Aestik and fight its corrupted inhabitants as you unravel its deep-rooted mysteries.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Nine Sols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Ranked #8 for Nine Sols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Nine Sols
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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Reviewers of Nine Sols cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Nine Sols.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Reviewers of Nine Sols cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Katana ZERO
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Nine Sols.
Reviewers of Nine Sols cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nine Sols cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
OMORI
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nine Sols cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Sols.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Nine Sols.
Reviewers of Nine Sols cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Nine Sols.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
OneShot
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Nine Sols.
Reviewers of Nine Sols cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Sols.
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.
Red Dead Redemption 2
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Nine Sols.
Reviewers of Nine Sols cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Nine Sols.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nine Sols at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Nine Sols on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nine Sols.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nine Sols on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nine Sols.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nine Sols on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nine Sols on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nine Sols.
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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Priced ~50% under Nine Sols on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nine Sols on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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 Nine Sols.
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 Nine Sols.
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 Nine Sols.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nine Sols.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Sols.
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 Nine Sols.
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 Nine Sols.
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.
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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.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
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.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares lore collection and a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Aestik
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Make impactful decisions in moral dilemma situations, which will change the course of your journey through this atmospheric, hand-drawn metroidvania. Explore the hazardous paths of the Realm of Aestik and fight its corrupted inhabitants as you unravel its deep-rooted mysteries.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Nine Sols.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Sols.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Frequently asked about Nine Sols
- Is Nine Sols verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Nine Sols is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Nine Sols cost?
- Nine Sols is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nine Sols?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nine Sols are Omen Fall, MIO: Memories in Orbit, Nonu.
- Who developed Nine Sols?
- Nine Sols was developed by RedCandleGames.
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