Games like The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
If The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abyss Odyssey, Charlie Murder and River City: Rival Showdown — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its excellent original soundtrack, bleak and dark. 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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile: The followup to 2009's Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a combo-fueled, fast-paced, stylistic 2D action platformer that features the series' staple gritty, graphic novel-inspired art style, built on a new engine that allows for an even more visually gruesome experience.
Players who liked The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile also play
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Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Top pick for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Charlie Murder
WHY THIS
Shares beat em up combat with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Second-strongest match for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
River City: Rival Showdown
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
River City Ransom is back, rebuilt from the ground up! Rekindle old rivalries and relive past rumbles through a completely revamped story!
Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Shing!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Blast Brawl 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Fast-paced combat where any hit means DEATH! Deadly enemies and bosses to test your mettle! Champions with unique abilities and play styles!
KIBORG
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and a dark mood with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Ranked #7 for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
KIBORG is a relentless rogue-lite beat’em up where you enhance your body with new cybernetic implants each run. You’ve been sent to the worst prison in the galaxy for crimes you didn’t commit. Death won’t provide an escape, but a violent reality show may offer a way out.
The Wonderful 101: Remastered
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Lead an army of 100 Wonderful Ones from around the world in this Unite Action spectacular!
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Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares a bleak mood with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Reviewers of The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Reviewers of The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Ska Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Ska Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares a bleak mood with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Another title from Ska Studios, the studio behind The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Charlie Murder
WHY THIS
Shares beat em up combat with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Another title from Ska Studios, the studio behind The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Another title from Ska Studios, the studio behind The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Another title from Ska Studios, the studio behind The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Charlie Murder
WHY THIS
Shares beat em up combat with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
River City: Rival Showdown
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
River City Ransom is back, rebuilt from the ground up! Rekindle old rivalries and relive past rumbles through a completely revamped story!
Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Shing!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
KIBORG
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and a dark mood with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
KIBORG is a relentless rogue-lite beat’em up where you enhance your body with new cybernetic implants each run. You’ve been sent to the worst prison in the galaxy for crimes you didn’t commit. Death won’t provide an escape, but a violent reality show may offer a way out.
The Wonderful 101: Remastered
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Lead an army of 100 Wonderful Ones from around the world in this Unite Action spectacular!
Frequently asked about The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
- Is The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile cost?
- The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile are Abyss Odyssey, Charlie Murder, River City: Rival Showdown.
- Who developed The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile?
- The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile was developed by Ska Studios.
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