Games like Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition
If Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are FORCED: Slightly Better Edition, Hammerwatch and Brigands — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and competitive. 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 →Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition is a top-down dungeon crawler released in 2014 by Arrowhead Game Studios, combining action, adventure, and RPG elements. The game supports up to four players through both local and online cooperative multiplayer, with distinct character classes offering unique abilities and attacks. Players battle through hordes of enemies while collecting loot and discovering relics and talismans, with an endless mode available for extended sessions. Reviewers highlight that tactical positioning matters during combat and that varied attacks depending on class create different gameplay approaches. Players describe the experience as intense and competitive, with a deliberately hard difficulty that requires coordination. The game holds a 79% positive rating from over 4,500 Steam reviews and is verified as playable on Steam Deck, priced at $19.99.
About Gauntlet™ Slayer 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!
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FORCED: Slightly Better Edition
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Shares an intense mood with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Top pick for Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer 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!
Hammerwatch
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Second-strongest match for Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer 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.
Brigands
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Third-strongest match for Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Brigands is a “top-down hack and slash / beat 'em up adventure” game set in a medieval fantasy world. A local co-op game for casual gamers who like high intensity challenges for short periods of time. You can play from 1 to 4 players on a single computer.
Ys: The Oath in Felghana
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Shares an intense mood with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Ranked #4 for Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
An Action RPG driven by fast-paced combat and paired with an intricate puzzle-filled world.
Ys I & II Chronicles+
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Ranked #5 for Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Long, long ago, there was an ancient kingdom called Ys which prospered under the auspices of two heavenly Goddesses. Over time, the kingdom came to be known as Esteria, and its divine history was largely forgotten by all but the descendants of those who once preached the Goddesses’ will.
Minecraft Dungeons
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Ranked #6 for Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Fight your way through an exciting action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe!
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
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Ranked #7 for Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Last Epoch
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Ranked #8 for Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Uncover the Past, Reforge the Future. Ascend into one of 15 mastery classes and explore dangerous dungeons, hunt epic loot, craft legendary weapons, and wield the power of over a hundred transformative skill trees. Last Epoch is being developed by a team of passionate Action RPG enthusiasts.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Gauntlet™ Slayer 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!
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer 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 Adventure with Gauntlet™ Slayer 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 with Gauntlet™ Slayer 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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Peggle Extreme
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Arrowhead Game Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
HELLDIVERS™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Another title from Arrowhead Game Studios, the studio behind Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition. Shares Action with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Another title from Arrowhead Game Studios, the studio behind Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition. Shares Action with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.
Magicka
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Another title from Arrowhead Game Studios, the studio behind Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition. Shares Action and RPG with Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition.
Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.
Frequently asked about Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition
- Does Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition run on Steam Deck?
- Gauntlet™ Slayer 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 Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition cost?
- Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition are FORCED: Slightly Better Edition, Hammerwatch, Brigands.
- Who developed Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition?
- Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition was developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by WB Games.
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