Games like Nine Nights
If Nine Nights is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sword Duel, NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black and SHARP FISTS — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, intense and punishing. 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 Nine Nights: 《Nine Nights》is an indie hardcore action-adventure game. You will become the killer Ci Lang, escape and fight back in the crisis-ridden world of Nine Nights. You have to rely on the high martial arts skills tenacious fighting, struggling to lead to the road to revenge.
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Sword Duel
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Top pick for Nine Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
A 3D sword-fighting game with reflex-based combat. Face off in 20 duels, master three attack and defense styles, and collect rare orbs to gain an edge.
NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Nine Nights.
Second-strongest match for Nine Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nine Nights.
Using Unreal Engine 5 to significantly enhance graphic expression, this is the definitive version of "NINJA GAIDEN 2," featuring additional playable characters and enhanced battle support functions.
SHARP FISTS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nine Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
SHARP FISTS is an action game that allows players to freely switch weapons and attack modes during combat, using a variety of weapons and skills to perform combo attacks. The highly mobile combat system provides players with a fluid combat experience.
Your Sword Is So Big
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Nine Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
Your Sword Is So Big is an emotional fantasy game. The detailed appearance of the character, a deep combat system and sensual animations will not let you get bored, and the beauty of the local castles and landscapes takes your breath away!
Panda legend
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Nine Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
The era of cold weapons, the Panda Kingdom was suffered by combine attack because other animals wanted to capture this rich place. Now， you are a desperate frontier general and you decide to set out alone to fight for the low morale of the army.
LunaQuest
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Nine Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
This is a medieval fantasy base game with enemies from the future trying to wipe out all of humanity. This is a Turned base JRPG with an Open world concept.
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Nine Nights.
Ranked #7 for Nine Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Nights.
Become immersed in exhilarating battles as a nameless hero in the Three Kingdoms
Firelight Fantasy: Phoenix Crew
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Shares a challenging mood with Nine Nights.
Ranked #8 for Nine Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
Firelight Fantasy: Phoenix Crew is a spectacular third-person sword fighting game based on Scandinavian mythology
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™
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Shares an intense mood with Nine Nights.
Reviewers of Nine Nights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Nine Nights.
Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™. Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death.
Prince of Persia®
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Reviewers of Nine Nights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Nine Nights.
The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia® franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey. Built by the same award-winning Ubisoft Montreal studio that created Assassin's Creed™, Prince of Persia has been in development for over three years to deliver a whole new action-adventure gaming...
SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Nine Nights.
Reviewers of Nine Nights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Nine Nights.
The iconic SHINOBI returns in an all-new 2D action platformer with a unique hand-drawn look created by the team behind the hit brawler Streets of Rage 4.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Nine Nights.
Reviewers of Nine Nights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
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 punishing mood with Nine Nights.
Reviewers of Nine Nights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Nine Nights.
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.
Shinobi Saga
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nine Nights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Nine Nights.
Shinobi Saga is a one-life mini RPG with roguelite elements and interactive turn-based combat. Choose your Ninja team and embark on a journey into the wilderness to defeat evil spirits and save your village.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nine Nights at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Nine Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nine Nights.
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 ~62% under Nine Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
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 ~46% under Nine Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nine Nights.
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 ~65% under Nine Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nine Nights.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~52% under Nine Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nine Nights.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Nine Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nine Nights.
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 ~62% under Nine Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nine Nights.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Nine Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
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?
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 Nine Nights.
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 Nine Nights.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nine Nights.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Nights.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Nine Nights.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Nights.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Nine Nights.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Nights.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Nine Nights
- How much does Nine Nights cost?
- Nine Nights is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nine Nights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nine Nights are Sword Duel, NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black, SHARP FISTS.
- Who developed Nine Nights?
- Nine Nights was developed by Li Hui and published by Daylight Game Studio.
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