Games like Malignant Survivors
If Malignant Survivors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nevermore: The Chamber Door, Shadow Dungeon and Castle Dark — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character customization via gear, 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.
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Nevermore: The Chamber Door
WHY THIS
Top pick for Malignant Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.
NEVERMORE: The Chamber Door is an indie game developed by just one person, with fluid combat in the style of hack n 'slash and lore inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
Shadow Dungeon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Malignant Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.
Nightmarish monsters crawl forth from the darkness, while the Demon Lord lurks beneath the abyss. Venture into the Shadow Dungeon, carve your way through blood and chaos, and forge your own legendary epic.
Castle Dark
WHY THIS
Shares skill progression, real time combat and arcade style with Malignant Survivors.
Third-strongest match for Malignant Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.
Brand Warcford must track down the evil force plaguing the land in this single player ACTION RPG.
Wardens of Avalon
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Ranked #4 for Malignant Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.
Restore the former glory of a corrupt Camelot in Wardens of Avalon, an Action RPG set in a Dark Arthurian world. As a new member of the Twilight Knights, establish your fiefdom, explore, craft and gear up for thrilling adventures against the fallen Knights of the Round Table, alone or with friends.
Legacy Of The Pact
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Malignant Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.
Journey through the fantastical world destroying hordes of evil creatures and survive! Legacy Of The Pact is and action packed action survival game with some RPG and Rogue Like elements
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Malignant Survivors.
Ranked #7 for Malignant Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.
Carve your path in this Hack’n’Slash free from class boundaries. Purify a world shattered by corruption, and uncover the grim secrets and forgotten horrors lurking in the shadows of this forsaken land as you rise in Power. Your Inner aspect beckons—will you answer?
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares run based progression with Malignant Survivors.
Ranked #8 for Malignant Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Malignant Survivors at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under Malignant Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under Malignant Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
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.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Malignant Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Malignant Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~50% under Malignant Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
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Priced ~50% under Malignant Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Toree 2
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Priced ~50% under Malignant Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
A bite-sized 3D Platformer sequel with more focus on the things people enjoyed in the first game like fast gameplay, flow focused levels and cute costumes (two this time).
UBERMOSH Vol.5
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Priced ~50% under Malignant Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
The fifth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.
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 with Malignant Survivors.
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 with Malignant Survivors.
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.
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 with Malignant Survivors.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 RPG with Malignant Survivors.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
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 with Malignant Survivors.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Other recommendable Steam games by Eren Aydin, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Welcome to Princeland
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty tiers with Malignant Survivors.
Another title from Eren Aydin, the studio behind Malignant Survivors. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.
You are a part of the rebellion against the prince who exploit his people with taxes. Gather the best weapons, vehicles and followers to crush his army. By upgrading your skills, challenge him at different difficulty mods.
Boundel: The Second Era
WHY THIS
Another title from Eren Aydin, the studio behind Malignant Survivors. Shares RPG with Malignant Survivors.
This is the time of guilds, wizards, warriors, blacksmiths, tailors, scribes, alchemists, woodworkers, animal tamers, brewers, traders, traitors and murderers. The Second Era begins!
WFO World Football Online
WHY THIS
Another title from Eren Aydin, the studio behind Malignant Survivors.
WFO World Football Online is an online football management game with a non-scripted match engine on a virtual football world continuously developed by AI.
Malignant Survivors 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Eren Aydin, the studio behind Malignant Survivors. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.
Experience the most intense 3D crowd combat ever. Pick your hero. Gear up. Then face the horde. Grab loot, get stronger, stay alive. Maybe. Didn't work? Try another hero, another build. Find your own path to the Abyss.
Frequently asked about Malignant Survivors
- Does Malignant Survivors run on Steam Deck?
- Malignant Survivors 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 Malignant Survivors cost?
- Malignant Survivors is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Malignant Survivors?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Malignant Survivors are Nevermore: The Chamber Door, Shadow Dungeon, Castle Dark.
- Who developed Malignant Survivors?
- Malignant Survivors was developed by Eren Aydin.
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