Games like Cubes and Knights
If Cubes and Knights is your kind of game, the closest matches are THE DEEPEST CASTLE, Lichenvale and Arthurian Legends — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and eerie. 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 Cubes and Knights: You are strong and huge, you have a heavy sword in your hands, and somewhere deep an ancient evil is hidden. The King himself sent you on a difficult campaign: to find the immortal enemy of all people. Find ancient artifacts and work your way through the labyrinths with steel and magic.
Players who liked Cubes and Knights also play
Steam players who put hours into Cubes and Knights 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.
THE DEEPEST CASTLE
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cubes and Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
You are a mighty knight - how powerful your blows are! And in the very center of a vast forest lies a fortress filled with evil and black magic. There, they raise the dead and hide great artifacts. You decide to explore the fortress and see what the black magicians are hiding.
Lichenvale
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cubes and Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Lichenvale is a first person slasher offering fast-paced melee combat mixed with tactical use of spells and dashing around your enemies. Battle through nightmarish hordes of monsters representing your innermost fears in this 90's hits inspired title.
Arthurian Legends
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Third-strongest match for Cubes and Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Arthurian Legends is a medieval first person action game set in the land of Albion during a time of myth and legend. Battle hordes of Saxons, demonic beasts, the undead and worse in thy quest to save Albion from The Masters of the Old Religion.
Driven Out
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Ranked #4 for Cubes and Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Beautiful 16 bit retro art style with fluid animations and deliberate combat. Read the enemy and act accordingly in this seamless world without any load screens.
The Morrigan
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Ranked #5 for Cubes and Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Step into this world of beautiful stylised graphics and explore striking, handcrafted environments - torch in one hand, big axe in the other. Built exclusively for VR.
Pharaonic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Ranked #6 for Cubes and Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Embark on a journey of exploration and violence in the Two Lands of Egypt with Pharaonic! This unforgiving Combat RPG features an streamlined and challenging combat system that will keep you on your toes while fighting for your life!
The Rangers In The South
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Ranked #7 for Cubes and Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Purge the lands in this 2.5D HD Pixelart RogueLike ARPG! Create hundreds of characters with unique strategies and abilities, face hordes of enemies, explore different biomes, procedurally generated dungeons, and obtain unique items!
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cubes and Knights.
Ranked #8 for Cubes and Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
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.
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MORDHAU
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cubes and Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.
Quake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Reviewers of Cubes and Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Strife: Veteran Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Reviewers of Cubes and Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
Hailed as the original FPS-RPG game that spawned countless imitators, Strife: Veteran Edition is a love letter to the classic from 1996.
DUSK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Reviewers of Cubes and Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Dark and Darker
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cubes and Knights.
Reviewers of Cubes and Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.
Strife®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cubes and Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
Strife® is a truly free to play, competitive, MOBA that features non-stop action and engaging combat. Take control of powerful and versatile heroes, each capable of dominating in unique ways, and exert your will in an epic battle between two teams.
HeXen II
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Cubes and Knights.
Reviewers of Cubes and Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse lurk in the shadows before you. They are Death, Pestilence, Famine, and War. They are the root of all that is evil, but the least of your worries. The last of the three Serpent Riders yet lives.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cubes and Knights at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Cubes and Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
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 ~88% under Cubes and Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
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 ~63% under Cubes and Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Cubes and Knights on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Cubes and Knights on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Cubes and Knights on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Cubes and Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Cubes and Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
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 Indie with Cubes and Knights.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cubes and Knights.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
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 and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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More from Sergey Bobrov
Other recommendable Steam games by Sergey Bobrov, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Way of Gold and Steel
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cubes and Knights.
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Cubes and Knights. Shares Indie with Cubes and Knights.
What is in the "Way of Gold and Steel" which makes it interesting? Main reason is the unusual gameplay style — combination of a real-time strategy (RTS) and a roguelike.
Planet in the Shadows
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Cubes and Knights. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
Inspired by the dungeon crawler genre, this short game blends traditional spelunking with base building mechanics. The player is stranded on a hostile planet, urged to build a base and defend it against the awfully aggressive forces of the hostile environment.
Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cubes and Knights.
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Cubes and Knights. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike is a mostly classic RPG/Roguelike with a vast game world. The game has dozens of dungeons and items, and hundreds of unique enemies. There is a great variety in magic, curses and item enchantments.
Autumn Night 3D Shooter
WHY THIS
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Cubes and Knights. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
A 3D shooter made in the spirit of the the 90s' FPSes. Atmospheric pixel graphics, fast-paced action, focus on pure gameplay, made using a software renderer written from scratch.
Daemonic Runner
WHY THIS
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Cubes and Knights. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Grab a rusty sword, gain some momentum, and send everyone flying in this aggressive joust. Sweep your foes away like a hurricane and cross bottomless chasms with giant leaps.
THE DEEPEST CASTLE
WHY THIS
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Cubes and Knights. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
You are a mighty knight - how powerful your blows are! And in the very center of a vast forest lies a fortress filled with evil and black magic. There, they raise the dead and hide great artifacts. You decide to explore the fortress and see what the black magicians are hiding.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Lichenvale
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Lichenvale is a first person slasher offering fast-paced melee combat mixed with tactical use of spells and dashing around your enemies. Battle through nightmarish hordes of monsters representing your innermost fears in this 90's hits inspired title.
Pharaonic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cubes and Knights.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Embark on a journey of exploration and violence in the Two Lands of Egypt with Pharaonic! This unforgiving Combat RPG features an streamlined and challenging combat system that will keep you on your toes while fighting for your life!
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cubes and Knights.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
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.
Frequently asked about Cubes and Knights
- How much does Cubes and Knights cost?
- Cubes and Knights is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cubes and Knights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cubes and Knights are THE DEEPEST CASTLE, Lichenvale, Arthurian Legends.
- Who developed Cubes and Knights?
- Cubes and Knights was developed by Sergey Bobrov.
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 Cubes and Knights.
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