Games like SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance
If SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance is your kind of game, the closest matches are NIPH, BLADECHIMERA and Intrepid Izzy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and cinematic. 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 →Players describe this 2025 ninja action platformer as atmospheric, challenging, and intense, with reviewers highlighting the satisfying combo-driven combat and deep combo system with high skill ceiling. The excellent soundtrack delivers classic ninja feel, while metroidvania exploration with ability unlocks encourages backtracking. Boss fights and a boss-rush mode offer additional challenges, with a hardcore mode providing meaningful difficulty. The hand-drawn art style supports the retro martial-arts action. Verified on Steam Deck with 92% positive reviews from 1343 Steam players, priced at $29.99.
About SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance: 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.
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NIPH
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Top pick for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
NIPH is a stylish roguelite platformer with risky and intense combat. Slash, shoot, and learn and cast spells with more varied items as you explore a vast and diverse fantasy world!
BLADECHIMERA
WHY THIS
Shares checkpoint based progression, skill tree progression and an atmospheric mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Second-strongest match for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Explore a dark and sinister Osaka as the Demon Hunter Shin. Battle demons, regain lost skills, and uncover the truth of your forgotten past in this exciting occult-inspired cyberpunk metroidvania.
Intrepid Izzy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
A colourful, imaginative and fun adventure with platformer and beat 'em up elements.
Slashboy
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Ranked #4 for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
It's time to protect the world from... Mushrooms. Play as a samurai against a crowd of mushrooms, ordinary and not so. Cut, use magic, but destroy as many mushrooms as you can. Compete with others and prove who is the real mushroom destroyer!
Sword of Hypotenuse
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Ranked #5 for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Cut, squash, and headbutt other tofu ninja in this adventure searching for the truth of the Pythagoreans' Theorem! Explore various world permutations and collect rare Alogon history as you break and link different worlds to create the true Number Line.
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Ranked #6 for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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!
Okinawa Rush
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Shares combo driven combat and an atmospheric mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Ranked #7 for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Take on the role of the martial arts master Hiro, Meilin, or Shin as they face off in a desperate fight for their lives against the Black Mantis clan. DOUBLE THE MAYHEM: Bring a friend and battle against ninjas, demons, and more in the 2-player local co-op mode of this action-adventure platformer.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
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Shares checkpoint based progression, combo based combat, martial arts and an intense mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Ranked #8 for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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.
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Shinobi Saga
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Reviewers of SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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.
Streets of Rage 4
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Shares an intense mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Reviewers of SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
NINJA GAIDEN 4
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, boss fights, martial arts and an epic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Reviewers of SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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 Shift
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Reviewers of SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Shinobi Shift is a first-person platformer with shooter elements where you can control the time!
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares checkpoint based progression, combo based combat, martial arts and an intense mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Reviewers of SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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.
Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World
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Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Reviewers of SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
The adventures of Asha, the little warrior, begin! Together with her blue sidekick Pepelogoo, she will run through numerous stages and save the Monster World from the darkness.
Revenge of the Mage
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Shares action and an atmospheric mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Reviewers of SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
RotM is an Action Roguelite FPS game where players get in the robes of a Mage. Let the hands of fate open ways for the power of your magic. Save the Multiverse to power up yourself! Unlock, collect, discover, live, die, repeat!
The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors
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Shares weapon variety, combo based combat, action and an epic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Reviewers of SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Alluring audio! Pixel art perfection! Beat-em up beauty! Discover how hard a 32,000kg ninja hits with The Ninja Saviours!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~67% under SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~67% under SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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Priced ~50% under SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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!
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Peggle Extreme
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
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Sonic Adventure 2
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Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Another title from SEGA, the studio behind SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Experience two unique adventures featuring both long-time heroes and new and returning villains as they battle for the fate of the world!
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+
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Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Another title from SEGA, the studio behind SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Take center stage in Hatsune Miku’s premier rhythm game starring the world’s #1 virtual pop star! With a stunner setlist and enormous wardrobe to style, it’s Miku’s ultimate tour—all it needs is you.
Sonic Adventure DX
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Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Another title from SEGA, the studio behind SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
An ancient evil lurking within the Master Emerald has been unleashed from its slumber by the devious Dr. Eggman and is on the verge of becoming the ultimate monster using the 7 Chaos Emeralds. Only Sonic and his friends are heroic enough to put a stop to Dr. Eggman and his evil minions.
Valkyria Chronicles™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Another title from SEGA, the studio behind SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
The critically acclaimed Valkyria Chronicles is now available on PC in 1080p True HD, including all previously released DLC!
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from SEGA, the studio behind SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
SONIC SUPERSTARS
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Another title from SEGA, the studio behind SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Adventure through the mystical Northstar Islands in this all-new take on classic 2D Sonic high-speed action platforming.
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode I
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Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Another title from SEGA, the studio behind SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
The sequel fans have waited 16 years for is finally here - Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I! Featuring enhanced gameplay elements, including the classic Sonic Spin Dash, and the versatile Homing Attack, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I picks up right where Sonic and Knuckles™ left off. Dr.
Crazy Taxi
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Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Another title from SEGA, the studio behind SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Hey hey, come on over and have some fun with Crrrrrazy Taxi! Barrel through traffic packed streets, hurdle off parking garages, and Crazy Combo your way to Crazy Money in a wild frantic race to scare up the most fares. In Crazy Taxi, time is money, and only the Craziest Cabbies come out victorious.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
BLADECHIMERA
WHY THIS
Shares checkpoint based progression, skill tree progression and an atmospheric mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Explore a dark and sinister Osaka as the Demon Hunter Shin. Battle demons, regain lost skills, and uncover the truth of your forgotten past in this exciting occult-inspired cyberpunk metroidvania.
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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!
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares checkpoint based progression, combo based combat, martial arts and an intense mood with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance.
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.
Frequently asked about SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance
- Is SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance 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 SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance cost?
- SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance are NIPH, BLADECHIMERA, Intrepid Izzy.
- Who developed SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance?
- SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance was developed by SEGA, Lizardcube and published by SEGA.
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