Games like The Shaman's Ark
If The Shaman's Ark is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hollow Knight, Solateria and Skautfold: Usurper — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and hypnotic. 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 The Shaman's Ark: A dark metroidvania where your shaman drum is the only weapon against the Abyss. The music of the ancients becomes your blade, and every battle is a ritual on the edge of death.
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Steam players who put hours into The Shaman's Ark 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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Shaman's Ark.
Top pick for The Shaman's Ark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
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.
Solateria
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, backtracking and atmospheric with The Shaman's Ark.
Second-strongest match for The Shaman's Ark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
Skautfold: Usurper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shaman's Ark.
Third-strongest match for The Shaman's Ark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Usurper is a Metroidvania Action-RPG. With Eldritch horrors having been unleashed by the outer-worldly Citadel, your job is to rid London of its terrors. Use the new "Guard" system that rewards skillful play and accuracy, to uncover the massive structure and defeat the nightmares lurking within.
Voidwrought
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with The Shaman's Ark.
Ranked #4 for The Shaman's Ark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
Volkolak: The Will of Gods
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, hidden collectibles and atmospheric with The Shaman's Ark.
Ranked #5 for The Shaman's Ark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Volkolak: The Will of Gods is an epic 2D soulsvania in a dark Slavic fantasy setting, with hand-drawn animation. Explore an enchanted world full of secrets and enemies. Your choices will lead to several endings: become a bogatyr, a werewolf, or join the darkness.
The Last Case of Benedict Fox Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Shaman's Ark.
Ranked #6 for The Shaman's Ark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Take on the last case of Benedict Fox and dive into a twisted world of secret organizations, forbidden rituals, and cold-blooded murders. Explore the memories of deceased victims as you search for clues and fight demons in this fantastical Lovecraftian Metroidvania.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration and boss fights with The Shaman's Ark.
Ranked #7 for The Shaman's Ark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Shaman's Ark.
Ranked #8 for The Shaman's Ark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Shaman's Ark at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Shaman's Ark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
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 The Shaman's Ark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
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 The Shaman's Ark on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Shaman's Ark.
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 The Shaman's Ark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
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 The Shaman's Ark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Shaman's Ark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
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 The Shaman's Ark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
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 The Shaman's Ark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 The Shaman's Ark.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shaman's Ark.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 The Shaman's Ark.
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 Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Shaman's Ark.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
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.
Voidwrought
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with The Shaman's Ark.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration and boss fights with The Shaman's Ark.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Shaman's Ark.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Shaman's Ark.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Frequently asked about The Shaman's Ark
- How much does The Shaman's Ark cost?
- The Shaman's Ark is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Shaman's Ark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Shaman's Ark are Hollow Knight, Solateria, Skautfold: Usurper.
- Who developed The Shaman's Ark?
- The Shaman's Ark was developed by Amortiz Games.
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 The Shaman's Ark.
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