Games like Ninja Soul
If Ninja Soul is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Cells, Seed Hunter 猎源 and Dunjungle — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Ninja Soul: Ninjasoul is a platform action game that combines roguelite with Galaxy warrior demon city. Kunoichi, Tachibana Yachiyo unexpectedly awakened the ability of "death backtracking". She will find the truth in the land that used to be her hometown in the fight and death again and again.
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Steam players who put hours into Ninja Soul 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.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ninja Soul.
Top pick for Ninja Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Seed Hunter 猎源
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ninja Soul.
Second-strongest match for Ninja Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Seed Hunter is a 2D Platformer with Roguelite element. You’re the alien finding the missing source around universe, but you get into some trouble on the planet of Earth.
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ninja Soul.
Third-strongest match for Ninja Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ninja Soul.
Ranked #4 for Ninja Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Xenon Valkyrie
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ninja Soul.
Ranked #5 for Ninja Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Xenon Valkyrie is a rogue-like with many RPG elements in which you will have to get to the deepest part of a moon and finish the plans of a wicked witch. You will be able to get many weapons randomly as you fight in a world that is created every time you play.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ninja Soul.
Ranked #6 for Ninja Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Summum Aeterna
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ninja Soul.
Ranked #7 for Ninja Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Summum Aeterna is a fast-paced Roguelite inspired by the Metroidvania Aeterna Noctis. Create your own worlds, challenges, difficulty and influences in each new run. Die, learn, become stronger, and achieve victory. Death is inevitable, but glory is only for the chosen.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ninja Soul.
Ranked #8 for Ninja Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Ninja Soul
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Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ninja Soul.
Reviewers of Ninja Soul cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ninja Soul.
Reviewers of Ninja Soul cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Ninja Soul.
Reviewers of Ninja Soul cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
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.
NINJA GAIDEN 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ninja Soul.
Reviewers of Ninja Soul cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Ninja Soul.
The definitive ninja action-adventure franchise returns with NINJA GAIDEN 4! Embark on a cutting-edge adventure where legacy meets innovation in a high-octane blend of style and no-holds-barred combat.
Castle of Vania
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ninja Soul cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Ninja Soul.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ninja Soul at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ninja Soul on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ninja Soul.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ninja Soul on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Ninja Soul on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ninja Soul.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ninja Soul on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ninja Soul.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ninja Soul on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ninja Soul.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Ninja Soul on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
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 ~70% under Ninja Soul on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ninja Soul on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
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.
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 Ninja Soul.
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.
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 Ninja Soul.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ninja Soul.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![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.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ninja Soul.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ninja Soul.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ninja Soul.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ninja Soul.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ninja Soul.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ninja Soul.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Frequently asked about Ninja Soul
- How much does Ninja Soul cost?
- Ninja Soul is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ninja Soul?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ninja Soul are Dead Cells, Seed Hunter 猎源, Dunjungle.
- Who developed Ninja Soul?
- Ninja Soul was developed by Ash Game Studio and published by Electronic Sheep 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 Ninja Soul.
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