Games like Shadow King
If Shadow King is your kind of game, the closest matches are Super Mombo Quest, Kalinur and Astalon: Tears of the Earth — 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 Shadow King: Explore a mysterious castle in this pixel perfect metroidvania and take on the Shadow King! Upgrades, secrets, combat, and more!
Players who liked Shadow King also play
Steam players who put hours into Shadow King 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.
Super Mombo Quest
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shadow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.
Kalinur
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shadow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shadow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow King.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shadow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shadow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shadow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Are you ready for the first Yoyovania?! In this 2D top-down adventure you'll explore a sprawling urban landscape, reinterpreting your surroundings through your mastery of yoyo tricks. Navigate the city's many districts, fight rival crime bosses, and regain the influence of the Pipistrello family!
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shadow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shadow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadow King at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Shadow King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shadow King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow King.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Shadow King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow King.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Shadow King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow King.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shadow King on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow King.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Shadow King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shadow King.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shadow King on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow King.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shadow King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow King.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Shadow King.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadow King.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow King.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Shadow King.
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 Shadow King.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow King.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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More from Johan Peitz
Other recommendable Steam games by Johan Peitz, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cosmic Collapse
WHY THIS
Another title from Johan Peitz, the studio behind Shadow King. Shares Indie with Shadow King.
Merge planets together in this puzzle game with soft physics. Can you make it to the sun? Can you merge two suns? Find out for science!
Hellgineers
WHY THIS
Another title from Johan Peitz, the studio behind Shadow King. Shares Indie with Shadow King.
Help the minions of the underworld across bubbling pools of lava with rickety bridges and non-regulated constructions. Will you go for the easiest route, or test your skills and aim for the coveted skulls? Return to completed challenges to perfect your builds!
Golf Monday
WHY THIS
Another title from Johan Peitz, the studio behind Shadow King. Shares Indie with Shadow King.
Partake in what seems like a normal golf tournament. But watch out! Your competitors will stop at nothing to win.
Orb of Aeternum
WHY THIS
Another title from Johan Peitz, the studio behind Shadow King. Shares Indie with Shadow King.
A bite sized dungeon manager game that requires new strategies every time you play! Mine, build, and fight your way to success.
Sunset Solitaire
WHY THIS
Another title from Johan Peitz, the studio behind Shadow King. Shares Indie with Shadow King.
Classic Solitaire with pixel perfect graphics and soothing chip tunes. Four variants with separate difficulty modes and an addicting scoring mechanism for unlocking card backs.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Super Mombo Quest
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Are you ready for the first Yoyovania?! In this 2D top-down adventure you'll explore a sprawling urban landscape, reinterpreting your surroundings through your mastery of yoyo tricks. Navigate the city's many districts, fight rival crime bosses, and regain the influence of the Pipistrello family!
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow King.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Frequently asked about Shadow King
- How much does Shadow King cost?
- Shadow King is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadow King?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow King are Super Mombo Quest, Kalinur, Astalon: Tears of the Earth.
- Who developed Shadow King?
- Shadow King was developed by Johan Peitz, Bibiki and published by Apskeppet.
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