Games like SONOKUNI
If SONOKUNI is your kind of game, the closest matches are No longer human, Binary Domain and Deus Ex: Invisible War — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and hypnotic. 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 SONOKUNI: Battle your way through a biopunk and Japanese mythology-inspired landscape filled with over-the-top, hip hop-infused 2D action. A single hit means death, but use your time-bending skills to take down your oppressors and you might yet save your dying nation.
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Steam players who put hours into SONOKUNI 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.
No longer human
WHY THIS
Top pick for SONOKUNI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Vicious high-energy freak action in the derelict warrens of a cybergothic shitworld
Binary Domain
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SONOKUNI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Set in futuristic Tokyo, take control of the robotic community before they control everything!
Deus Ex: Invisible War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SONOKUNI.
Third-strongest match for SONOKUNI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Approximately 20 years after Deus Ex, the world is only beginning to recover from a catastrophic worldwide depression. In this techno-nightmare, take part in the dark struggle to raise the world from its own ashes.
State of Mind
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SONOKUNI.
Ranked #4 for SONOKUNI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
Picayune Dreams
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SONOKUNI.
Ranked #5 for SONOKUNI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SONOKUNI.
Ranked #6 for SONOKUNI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...
Deus Ex: The Fall
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Ranked #7 for SONOKUNI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.
Remember Me
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SONOKUNI.
Ranked #8 for SONOKUNI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Remember Me™ is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.
Reviewers mention these as similar to SONOKUNI
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Hotline Miami
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Shares a hypnotic mood with SONOKUNI.
Reviewers of SONOKUNI cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Ikaruga
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with SONOKUNI.
Reviewers of SONOKUNI cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
Cruelty Squad
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SONOKUNI cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
Lies of P
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SONOKUNI.
Reviewers of SONOKUNI cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Lies of P is a thrilling soulslike that takes the story of Pinocchio, turns it on its head, and sets it against the darkly elegant backdrop of the Belle Epoque era.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SONOKUNI at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SONOKUNI on Steam right now. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
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.
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Priced ~53% under SONOKUNI on Steam right now. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SONOKUNI on Steam right now. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under SONOKUNI on Steam right now. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SONOKUNI on Steam right now. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under SONOKUNI on Steam right now. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
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 ~80% under SONOKUNI on Steam right now. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SONOKUNI on Steam right now. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 with SONOKUNI.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
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 with SONOKUNI.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SONOKUNI.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about SONOKUNI
- Is SONOKUNI verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SONOKUNI 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 SONOKUNI cost?
- SONOKUNI is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SONOKUNI?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SONOKUNI are No longer human, Binary Domain, Deus Ex: Invisible War.
- Who developed SONOKUNI?
- SONOKUNI was developed by DON YASA CREW and published by Kakehashi 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 SONOKUNI.
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