Games like Shinobi
If Shinobi is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bunraku, Ponshot and Doppel Hunter — 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 Shinobi: A social stealth party game for 2–4 players. Blend in with AI ninjas, find the real threats, and strike before they strike you.
Players who liked Shinobi also play
Steam players who put hours into Shinobi 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.
Bunraku
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shinobi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
Bunraku is a fast-paced multiplayer brawler where you clash with friends in frantic ninja fights. Up to 8 players can join the Bunraku Theater arenas, online (P2P) or local, mastering ninja dashing skills to become the ultimate battle puppeteer!
Ponshot
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shinobi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
Ponshot is an explosive brawler party game of brutal ball strikes in 2.5D urban environments. Run, dodge, launch and hit your opponents with powerful ball strikes, they don't just break bones... they shatter friendships!
Doppel Hunter
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shinobi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Shinobi.
Blend in, hunt, and outsmart your friends to be the last person standing. Find the real players among clones called "Doppels" to win. Experience random events that make each round unique. A hilarious local multiplayer challenge perfect for a party! 1-4 Players (6 possible 4 xbox + 2 non Xinput)
Dragon Fury
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shinobi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
1v1 Fighting. Ninjas, Pirates, Robots, Aliens and more. Import Your Own Characters!
Dash Duels
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shinobi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
DASH TO KILL. A chaotic neon combat arena for 1-4 local players. No health bars: one hit is fatal. Use ricochet physics, broken power-ups, and pure trolling to humiliate your friends. Are you a true Sigma or just another NPC?
Scales of Silence
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shinobi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
Clear the couch for co-op snake. A local party game where length is your life: up to 8 players on one shared screen for PvP battles, plus a 2-player co-op campaign. Shrink your friends before they shrink you.
Punch Upon a Time
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shinobi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
Punch Upon a Time is a team-based party fighter inspired by Smash Bros where you take on rounds of modes, mini-games, and combat alongside your friends. Assemble a squad of the biggest fairy tale names to punch, dunk, fly, score, and sumo your way to victory as the LAST TEAM STANDING.
SLOWLY FIGHTER
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shinobi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
You are a master of martial arts. Your sharpened senses make everything seem like it's in slow motion. A master's attacks hit vital spots so accurately that a single hit can result in an instant KO. Dodge your enemy's attacks and deliver a fatal blow.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shinobi at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shinobi on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Shinobi.
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 Shinobi on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
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 Shinobi on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shinobi.
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 Shinobi on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shinobi.
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 Shinobi on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Shinobi.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Shinobi on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shinobi on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shinobi.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Shinobi on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
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 Shinobi.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Shinobi.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Frequently asked about Shinobi
- How much does Shinobi cost?
- Shinobi is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Shinobi have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shinobi supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Shinobi?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shinobi are Bunraku, Ponshot, Doppel Hunter.
- Who developed Shinobi?
- Shinobi was developed by Michael D'Souza.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Shinobi.
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