Games like Forty Foes
If Forty Foes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shing!, Castle Crashers® and Unruly Heroes — 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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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!
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Unruly Heroes
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
Ogre Tale
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
Join ogre sisters Ran, Hana, and Yume, and their feline mentor, Iroha, in a battle against fairytale folkheroes-turned-villains via this action-packed tongue-in-cheek 2D beat-em-up romp set in modern-day Japan!
BlazBlue Entropy Effect
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Enjoy action-packed flashy combat with incredibly satisfying combos and responsive controls! Numerous characters, each with completely unique playstyles and loads of unlockable moves & upgrades! This action roguelike sets the bar for fluid fast-paced action.
Absolum
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.
Guacamelee! 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
The Wonderful 101: Remastered
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Forty Foes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Lead an army of 100 Wonderful Ones from around the world in this Unite Action spectacular!
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
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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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.
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Unruly Heroes
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
Ogre Tale
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Forty Foes.
Join ogre sisters Ran, Hana, and Yume, and their feline mentor, Iroha, in a battle against fairytale folkheroes-turned-villains via this action-packed tongue-in-cheek 2D beat-em-up romp set in modern-day Japan!
BlazBlue Entropy Effect
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Enjoy action-packed flashy combat with incredibly satisfying combos and responsive controls! Numerous characters, each with completely unique playstyles and loads of unlockable moves & upgrades! This action roguelike sets the bar for fluid fast-paced action.
Guacamelee! 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
The Wonderful 101: Remastered
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Forty Foes.
Lead an army of 100 Wonderful Ones from around the world in this Unite Action spectacular!
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!, Castle Crashers®, Unruly Heroes.
- Who developed Forty Foes?
- Forty Foes was developed by Ash Jackson and published by Monster Robot Studios.
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