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Games like STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®

If STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® is your kind of game, the closest matches are HEART ABYSS, Shadow Blade: Reload and Seafrog — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its vibrant cyberpunk aesthetics, challenging and nostalgic. 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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Strider is a 2014 action-adventure platformer developed by Double Helix Games and Capcom. Players control the ninja Strider Hiryu as they navigate a massive interconnected world using cypher-sword combat, environmental puzzle-solving, and gravity-manipulation abilities. The side-scrolling action is built around fluid movement and precision platforming. Reviewers and players describe the game as challenging, with responsive controls and smooth movement that reward mastery. Players highlight nostalgic nods to the classic Strider games alongside vibrant cyberpunk aesthetics. The game is priced at $14.99 USD and runs verified on Steam Deck. It received 84% positive from 1369 Steam reviews.

About STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®: Strider returns in a brand new adventure, complete with incredible side-scrolling action, and lightning fast combat all in a massive interconnected world! Download the full game February 19th and become the original assassin!

2014ActionAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 78Windowsby Double Helix Games, Capcom
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® — Steam game cover
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Players who liked STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® also play

Steam players who put hours into STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® 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. HEART ABYSS

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Heart Abyss is a brutal action-platformer inspired by Japan during the 17th and 18th centuries. Wake up your inner beast and take vengeance on those who put a collar around your neck. Find your sister and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of all jinkos.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Shadow Blade: Reload

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Second-strongest match for STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Shadow Blade is an action-platformer set in a visually striking world where the ancient teachings of ninjas and samurai clash upon a modern landscape. Sprint through stages littered with traps, slaying enemies along your path without hesitation as Kuro, the blade of shadow!

    2015ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Seafrog

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Third-strongest match for STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Hop aboard Seafrog’s rocket-powered wrench and slide, grind, and trick your way through a one-of-a-kind 2.5D action-puzzle-platformer!

    2025ActionSportsIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Ranked #4 for STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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.

    2025Action29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Bionic Commando: Rearmed

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Ranked #5 for STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Classic side-scrolling gameplay is reporting back for duty with Bionic Commando Rearmed, a remake of the classic NES game, out now on PC.20 years after the 8-bit classic was released, Bionic Commando Rearmed recreates the world of the original with a complete "2.5D" visual revamp.

    2009Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. KUNAI

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Ranked #6 for STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    This sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow reveals the story of the Belmonts as they battle destiny across generations to discover their true fate. Trevor Belmont, knight of the Brotherhood of Light, embarks on an epic quest to avenge his mother who was killed by his father Gabriel.

    2014ActionAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Super House of Dead Ninjas

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Ranked #8 for STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Super House of Dead Ninjas is an action arcade game with roguelite elements. Race against a 30 second timer as you descend floor after foe-filled floor and attempt to unlock the secrets of this deadly tower!Play as the fearsome Crimson Ninja, wielding an arsenal of deadly ninja weapons and attacks.

    2013ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®

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. STEEL STRIDER

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Reviewers of STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    STEEL STRIDER is the follow up to the acclaimed GIGANTIC ARMY and pays homage to the great run and gun games such as Turrican and Super Contra, but adds mouse / dual analogue stick-operated weapons!

    2015ActionIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Shadow Complex Remastered

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Reviewers of STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.

    2016Action14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Reviewers of STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    The legendary crossover hits are back! The action-packed lineup consisting of seven unique titles, is full of heavy hitters like X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER, and MARVEL vs. CAPCOM 2 New Age of Heroes. The collection also includes the rare beat 'em up game, THE PUNISHER.

    2024Action49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. SAMURAI

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    This is a third person action game in which you play as a samurai and face powerful enemies where your skills and reflexes will be tested.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Nova Strider

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    An indie top-down sci-fi score-attack game about blowing up aliens in the upper atmosphere! Compete against your friends locally and see who can get the highest score on the leaderboard.

    2026ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® on Steam right now. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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 STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® on Steam right now. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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 STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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 STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® on Steam right now. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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 ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~93% under STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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 ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® on Steam right now. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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 ↗
  5. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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 ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck 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. SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    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.

    2025Action29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. KUNAI

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

    This sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow reveals the story of the Belmonts as they battle destiny across generations to discover their true fate. Trevor Belmont, knight of the Brotherhood of Light, embarks on an epic quest to avenge his mother who was killed by his father Gabriel.

    2014ActionAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®

Is STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® 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 STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® cost?
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® are HEART ABYSS, Shadow Blade: Reload, Seafrog.
Who developed STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®?
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® was developed by Double Helix Games, Capcom and published by Capcom.

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 STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.

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