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Games like Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona

If Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona is your kind of game, the closest matches are Skelethrone: The Prey, The Last Faith and Blasphemous — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark souls inspired atmosphere, atmospheric and challenging. 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.

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About Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona: Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.

2024ActionRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · Linuxby 70`Strike
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona — Steam game cover
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Combat demands precision over brute forceDark souls inspired atmosphereDynamic boss fights require unique strategiesAtmosphericChallengingDark

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Steam players who put hours into Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona 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.

  1. Skelethrone: The Prey

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Top pick for Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    This game is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls. Skelethrone: The Prey is a free prequel to the main game, setting the stage for the events that will unfold throughout Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona campaign.

    2024ActionRPGFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Last Faith

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Second-strongest match for Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure27.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blasphemous

    WHY THIS

    Shares non linear exploration and a dark mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Third-strongest match for Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Death's Gambit: Afterlife

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Ranked #4 for Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. AWAKEN - Astral Blade

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Ranked #5 for Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    AWAKEN - Astral Blade is a 2.5D action-adventure metroidvania where you play as Tania, a bionic warrior fighting through a world twisted by Karpas energy. Master parries, upgrade your abilities, and survive relentless enemies and bosses. Is there any chance of survival in such a desperate place?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Minoria

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Ranked #6 for Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. GRIME

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

    2021ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Slain: Back from Hell

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Ranked #8 for Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Slain: Back from Hell. A heavy metal inspired arcade combat with puzzle elements and gore galore. Stunning visuals and true old school gameplay accompanied by the most metal soundtrack you've ever heard.

    2016ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Salt and Sanctuary

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Reviewers of Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

    2016ActionIndieRPG17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Last Faith

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Reviewers of Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure27.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Skelethrone: The Prey

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Reviewers of Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    This game is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls. Skelethrone: The Prey is a free prequel to the main game, setting the stage for the events that will unfold throughout Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona campaign.

    2024ActionRPGFreeSteam ↗
  4. Blasphemous

    WHY THIS

    Shares non linear exploration and a dark mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Reviewers of Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Hollow Knight: Silksong

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Reviewers of Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Castle of Vania

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.

    2025ActionAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Metroidvania Maker

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.

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  8. The Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    "The Abyss" is a first-person survival horror. After an accident, explore a dark world filled with horrors, puzzles, and secrets that challenge your sanity. Will you escape the Abyss or succumb?

    2024Indie1.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~93% under Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Blasphemous

    WHY THIS

    Shares non linear exploration and a dark mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Death's Gambit: Afterlife

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Minoria

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. GRIME

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

    Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

    2021ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona

Is Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona 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 Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona cost?
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona are Skelethrone: The Prey, The Last Faith, Blasphemous.
Who developed Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona?
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona was developed by 70`Strike and published by Valkyrie Initiative.

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 Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona.

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