Games like Forty Foes
If Forty Foes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shing!, Contract Killer and Son of a Witch — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Forty Foes: Pugilists prepare, The battle is about to begin...Forty Foes is a side-scrolling action adventure Beat 'em up in the style of classics like Double Dragon Battle Toads and Turtles in Time.

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Steam players who put hours into Forty Foes 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.
Shing!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Contract Killer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
Contract Killer is a 2.5D co-op beat ‘em up starring a diverse cast of angry writing utensils. Punch, snap, and clap your way through baddies and bosses in a comical campaign, clash against your friends, or survive endless swarms of corporate goons!
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Die for Valhalla!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
In the land of Vikings a monstrous portal has opened. The Great Old One is plotting to take over the world. Chaos spreads far and wide... and the party's just getting started! Novice Valkyries along with their new mysterious friend set out to save the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Capcom Arcade Stadium
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
Relive the Capcom classics! Get 1943 -The Battle of Midway- and game logo wallpapers free with your download!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
TMNT Splintered Fate - Unleash the Turtles in a roguelike quest to rescue Splinter from the Foot Clan! Master ninja skills, unite in bodacious co-op gameplay, and conquer iconic NYC locales.
Lost Castle / 失落城堡
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
Brawlout
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
Brawlout is the platform fighting game, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments. Now at 2.0!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Forty Foes.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
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]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
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 and Adventure with Forty Foes.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Forty Foes.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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More from Ash Jackson
Other recommendable Steam games by Ash Jackson, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fourteen Fiends
WHY THIS
Another title from Ash Jackson, the studio behind Forty Foes. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
Fourteen Fiends is a single player fantasy action adventure card game!
VonGarland Castle : Sacrilege of the Night
WHY THIS
Another title from Ash Jackson, the studio behind Forty Foes. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
VonGarland Castle : Sacrilege of the Night a love letter to action platformer classics like Castlevania, Super Metroid and Mega Man X.
VonGarland Castle : Beyond Blood
WHY THIS
Another title from Ash Jackson, the studio behind Forty Foes. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
prepare yourself for side scrolling survival horror action. Ransom VonGarland must journey to Mayhem Island and the ruins of VonGarland Castle to find her brother and uncover the truth of what Plasmadine corporation is doing on the island
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Capcom Arcade Stadium
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
Relive the Capcom classics! Get 1943 -The Battle of Midway- and game logo wallpapers free with your download!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
TMNT Splintered Fate - Unleash the Turtles in a roguelike quest to rescue Splinter from the Foot Clan! Master ninja skills, unite in bodacious co-op gameplay, and conquer iconic NYC locales.
Frequently asked about Forty Foes
- Does Forty Foes have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Forty Foes supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Forty Foes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forty Foes are Shing!, Contract Killer, Son of a Witch.
- Who developed Forty Foes?
- Forty Foes was developed by Ash Jackson and published by Monster Robot Studios.
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 Forty Foes.
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