Games like Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper
If Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lola's Familiars: Prison of Argnoh, The Little Brave and Wizard — 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 Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper: An action-adventure platformer in the metroidvania subgenre. The graphics are made in the style of a checkered notebook and blue ink. Defeat crowds of monsters, overcome traps, explore the game world, unlock new characters and find secrets! And all this to the accompaniment of driving music!
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Lola's Familiars: Prison of Argnoh
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Top pick for Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Escape a demonic underworld prison in this stunning anime inspired lite-vania adventure. Explore mysterious magical realms, forge pacts with powerful Familiar bosses, uncover dark secrets, and guide Lola through an emotional journey of growth in a haunting dark fantasy world.
The Little Brave
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Second-strongest match for Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Become a brave hero and embark to the dangerous journey though mysterious forbidden lands. Reveal secrets of the legendary past, find the last pieces of gone magic and gain courage to slay the terrible monster!
Wizard
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Third-strongest match for Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
The Wizard is a 2D Open World game inspired on the very good DOS Era genre titles. Talk, Run, Explore. Find secret passages and characters and discover a Dark Fantasy World full of secrets. Can you find The Wizard before your Time runs out?
Godstone
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Ranked #4 for Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Wield magic and weaponry in this roguelike dungeoncrawler, forge powerful builds and explore a story that evolves based on your actions. The end goal: Claim the Godstone before those who would use it to destroy your kind.
The Spirit
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Ranked #5 for Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
The Spirit is a simple Action RPG with elements of old school dungeon crawlers. Creatures and Demons are entering through the Rift. The people of the realm need you, but so does your family.
The Malice Kingdom
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Ranked #6 for Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Explore an ancient world in The Malice Kingdom. Travel the rich and diverse landscape filled with ancient ruins, foreboding forests, and haunting mansions. Discover powerful weapons, befriend Whimsical characters, and uncover the dormant secret within the kingdom.
The Lost Key
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Ranked #7 for Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
You are the last hope, be ready to resist the enemy and eliminate injustice and tyranny.
Monastery
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Ranked #8 for Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
A hand-drawn, dark-fantasy roguelite deckbuilder where you build a run around gear, equipment and weapon mastery. Fight tactical card battles, and push deeper through a branching “dungeon crawl” structure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
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
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Priced ~57% under Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
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
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Priced ~72% under Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
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
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Priced ~79% under Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
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
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Priced ~86% under Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
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
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Priced ~57% under Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
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!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
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 Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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More from Storyan teaM
Other recommendable Steam games by Storyan teaM, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Painted Legend
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Another title from Storyan teaM, the studio behind Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Imagine that one day, all the worlds that you have created on paper - live. Brave knights, fearsome dragons and terrible monsters, they all live on the page of your notebook.
Cetetorius
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Another title from Storyan teaM, the studio behind Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
This is a first-person action RPG where you are free to do whatever you want. Turn off the road, start the adventure! The world is open to exploration. Explore the lands of the kingdom, look for unique artifacts, create many objects with a simple crafting system and become part of an amazing world!
Painted Legend 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Storyan teaM, the studio behind Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
Painted Legend 2 is an atmospheric platformer crafted in a unique grid notebook style. It continues the story begun in Painted Legend, as the player once again steps into a hand-drawn world filled with adventure, danger, and mystery.
The Game of Squids: Ultimate Parody Game
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Another title from Storyan teaM, the studio behind Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper.
A crazy and colorful runner in a cartoon style, where the player has to go through many rooms with various trials and try to survive. The game contains a huge number of references, parodies and memes to make fun!
Frequently asked about Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper
- How much does Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper cost?
- Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper are Lola's Familiars: Prison of Argnoh, The Little Brave, Wizard.
- Who developed Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper?
- Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper was developed by Storyan teaM.
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