Games like FORCED: Slightly Better Edition
If FORCED: Slightly Better Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lost Castle / 失落城堡, Idiots' Fantasy and Nine Parchments — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, intense and tense. 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 →FORCED: Slightly Better Edition is a challenging action RPG released in 2013 by BetaDwarf, priced at $14.99. Designed for one to four players, the game combines tactical arena combat with puzzle-solving and RPG elements in a gladiator school setting. Players navigate a mark debuff system, manage an orb pet companion, and coordinate role-specialized abilities while dealing with kiting and tagging mechanics. Players describe the experience as intense and tense, with distinct weapon classes that feel meaningful and puzzles that demand real teamwork. Reviewers highlight that the orb pet requires precise coordination, and the steep difficulty curve rewards persistence. The title is playable on Steam Deck and holds a 72% positive rating from 1,147 Steam reviews, with challenge mode providing substantial replayability.
About FORCED: Slightly Better Edition: 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!
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Lost Castle / 失落城堡
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Shares a challenging mood with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Top pick for FORCED: Slightly Better Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
Idiots' Fantasy
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Second-strongest match for FORCED: Slightly Better Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Idiot's Fantasy is an idiotic hack-slash Roguelike in a world where every rule can be changed by equipping various rule books. Fight, explore, buy, switch, and die as you conquer this randomly generated world using the idiotic gameplay you've created yourself.
Nine Parchments
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Third-strongest match for FORCED: Slightly Better Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Nine Parchments is a co-operative blast'em up game of magic mayhem from Frozenbyte, creators of the Trine series!
Pocket Rogues
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Ranked #4 for FORCED: Slightly Better Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Pocket Rogues is a dynamic 2D-Roguelike with elements of Action-RPG, played entirely in real time. Raid endless dungeons, upgrade your Guild’s Fortress, and develop your own heroes!
Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition
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Shares an intense mood with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Ranked #5 for FORCED: Slightly Better Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
The classic Gauntlet 4-player co-op action gameplay returns in a completely new experience! Battle the endless hordes of foes as you and your friends fight for treasure and glory via both local and online co-op multiplayer. Invade the Darkness!
Legend of Dungeon
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Ranked #6 for FORCED: Slightly Better Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Hammerwatch
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Shares a challenging mood with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Ranked #7 for FORCED: Slightly Better Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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.
Hyper Light Drifter
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Ranked #8 for FORCED: Slightly Better Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FORCED: Slightly Better Edition at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under FORCED: Slightly Better Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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
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Priced ~67% under FORCED: Slightly Better Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under FORCED: Slightly Better Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under FORCED: Slightly Better Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under FORCED: Slightly Better Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under FORCED: Slightly Better Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under FORCED: Slightly Better Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under FORCED: Slightly Better Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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 and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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 and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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 and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Minion Masters
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Shares an intense mood with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Another title from BetaDwarf, the studio behind FORCED: Slightly Better Edition. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
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FORCED SHOWDOWN
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Another title from BetaDwarf, the studio behind FORCED: Slightly Better Edition. Shares Action and Indie with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.
Vaultbreakers
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Another title from BetaDwarf, the studio behind FORCED: Slightly Better Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with FORCED: Slightly Better Edition.
Vaultbreakers is a top-down Extraction RPG where you go on PvE or PvPvE adventures. Build your haven, loot ancient artifacts that shape your playstyle, and explore a vast, corrupted world, alone or with friends. Use preparation, knowledge, and skills to clear your path to the Dragonvault.
Frequently asked about FORCED: Slightly Better Edition
- Does FORCED: Slightly Better Edition run on Steam Deck?
- FORCED: Slightly Better Edition 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 FORCED: Slightly Better Edition cost?
- FORCED: Slightly Better Edition is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does FORCED: Slightly Better Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — FORCED: Slightly Better Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to FORCED: Slightly Better Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FORCED: Slightly Better Edition are Lost Castle / 失落城堡, Idiots' Fantasy, Nine Parchments.
- Who developed FORCED: Slightly Better Edition?
- FORCED: Slightly Better Edition was developed by BetaDwarf.
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