Games like Hammerwatch
If Hammerwatch is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heroes of Hammerwatch, Minecraft Dungeons II and Hero Siege — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and epic. 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 →Hammerwatch is a pixel-art action-adventure dungeon crawler released in 2013 by Crackshell, published by Team17. Players control one of four distinct character classes, each offering unique progression paths and abilities. The game features handcrafted levels with permadeath mechanics, gear upgrades, and hidden secrets to discover. Co-operative multiplayer supports both local and online play, making it particularly popular for shared sessions. Reviewers highlight how the pixel art and music create a strong atmosphere, while players describe the combat as satisfying melee bashing. The game rewards exploration through secret areas scattered throughout its four environments. Currently priced at $9.99 USD and marked playable on Steam Deck, it holds an 88% positive rating from over 2,400 Steam reviews.
About Hammerwatch: A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Play solo or co-op in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique environments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.
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Heroes of Hammerwatch
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hammerwatch.
Top pick for Hammerwatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.
Minecraft Dungeons II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hammerwatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hammerwatch.
Drop the pickaxe, grab a sword, and charge into a new adventure in Minecraft Dungeons II. Pre-order today and get 2 hero skins, the Twisted cape, and the Twisted chicken pet!
Hero Siege
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hammerwatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath and a challenging mood with Hammerwatch.
Ranked #4 for Hammerwatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hammerwatch.
Ranked #5 for Hammerwatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
FORCED: Slightly Better Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hammerwatch.
Ranked #6 for Hammerwatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
FORCED is a challenging 1-4-player game with co-op at its heart! A mix of tactical arcade action, RPG elements and puzzles will forge you and your friends together. As slaves in the toughest gladiator school of them all, you will face a plethora of unique trials - designed to be your death!
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hammerwatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.
9th Dawn Remake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hammerwatch.
Ranked #8 for Hammerwatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hammerwatch.
Rediscover the magic of the 9th Dawn series with this complete re-imagining of the original game. Venture into a massive 2.5D open world. Explore 45 new dungeons in single-player or online/local co-op, craft weapons, raise pets, play a deck-building card game, and take down the Castle of Maltyr!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Hammerwatch
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Hero Siege
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hammerwatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
Gauntlet
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hammerwatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Working as a common grunt for CannoSec, you have been chosen by the owner to be a candidate as a distinguished Elite. A position thousands in CannoSec work hard to attain. However, you have to show CannoSec that you are a worthy candidate through the Certification Run. Are you meant for this?
Grim Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hammerwatch.
Reviewers of Hammerwatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
Deep Rock Galactic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hammerwatch.
Reviewers of Hammerwatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Hammerwatch.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Remnant: From the Ashes
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer and an atmospheric mood with Hammerwatch.
Reviewers of Hammerwatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hammerwatch.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hammerwatch.
Reviewers of Hammerwatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Gunfire Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Hammerwatch.
Reviewers of Hammerwatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
The Light Brigade
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hammerwatch.
Reviewers of Hammerwatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Hammerwatch.
An award-winning roguelike VR shooter with realistic gunplay & immersive light magic. Ascend the ranks of The Light Brigade to unlock new weapons, upgrades, classes, and abilities as you fight to restore light to the darkness.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hammerwatch at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hammerwatch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hammerwatch.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hammerwatch on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Hammerwatch on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hammerwatch.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hammerwatch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hammerwatch.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hammerwatch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hammerwatch.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Hammerwatch on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
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 ~70% under Hammerwatch on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hammerwatch on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hammerwatch.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hammerwatch.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hammerwatch.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerwatch.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerwatch.
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.
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More from Crackshell
Other recommendable Steam games by Crackshell, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Heroes of Hammerwatch
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hammerwatch.
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Hammerwatch. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
WHY THIS
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Hammerwatch. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.
Hammerwatch II
WHY THIS
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Hammerwatch. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Gather your heroes and journey beyond the dungeons of Castle Hammerwatch to explore a pixelated world like never before. Aid King Roland’s resistance while helping villagers along the way. Battle beasts, finish off hordes of the undead, and face the forces of evil.
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer and an epic mood with Hammerwatch.
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Hammerwatch. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
Hammerwatch Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hammerwatch.
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Hammerwatch. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerwatch.
Choose between seven hero classes, each with unique capabilities. Brave hordes of deadly creatures alone, or band together with your noblest of champions in co-op mode available both online and locally. Take on the challenges in three different campaigns, or build your own custom scenario.
Frequently asked about Hammerwatch
- Does Hammerwatch run on Steam Deck?
- Hammerwatch is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Hammerwatch cost?
- Hammerwatch is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Hammerwatch have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hammerwatch supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hammerwatch?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hammerwatch are Heroes of Hammerwatch, Minecraft Dungeons II, Hero Siege.
- Who developed Hammerwatch?
- Hammerwatch was developed by Crackshell and published by Team17.
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