Games like Shadow Walker
If Shadow Walker is your kind of game, the closest matches are CIPHER 61, Tetraphobia and Survivor Mercs — 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 Walker: Shadow Walker is a rougelite where you have to survive the night and kill a bunch of bad guys. Will you end up dead, or will you blow everyone up with a holy banana gernade?
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Steam players who put hours into Shadow Walker 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.
CIPHER 61
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shadow Walker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
CIPHER 61 is a fast-paced, action-packed top-down-shooter, with tons of temporary and permanent upgrades. Can you make it through all 61 rooms?
Tetraphobia
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shadow Walker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
Tetraphobia is an action roguelite set in a stylized world of floating islands. Utilise different bows to shoot, dash, blast and loot your way through different realms. Filled with unique enemies, bosses, artefacts and NPCs every new run is a new challenge.
Survivor Mercs
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shadow Walker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot! Exploit game-breaking synergies to beat the M.E.G.A. Corp. bosses in ever-changing operations. Lock, load, and loot, Commander!
UnderMine
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shadow Walker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.
Rush Rover
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shadow Walker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
Rush Rover is a 2D top-down shooter game. Compared to other similar games of the genre, the shooting experience is closer to traditional shoot'em up games. It includes random map generation, unique weapons, lots of different enemies, exciting boss battles and a dynamic chiptune soundtrack.
FatalZone
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Ranked #6 for Shadow Walker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shadow Walker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Walker.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shadow Walker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
Fight giant War of the Worlds -style aliens invading Finland during a Winter in the 90's. Build an army of local townspeople in this chaotic semi-autobattler roguelike. Navigate through different biomes to obliterate the aliens from cosmic dimensions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadow Walker at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Shadow Walker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
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 Walker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow Walker.
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 Walker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow Walker.
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 Walker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Walker.
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 Walker on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Walker.
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 Walker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shadow Walker.
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 Walker on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Walker.
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 Walker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow Walker.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
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 Shadow Walker.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow Walker.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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 Walker.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
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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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Survivor Mercs
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot! Exploit game-breaking synergies to beat the M.E.G.A. Corp. bosses in ever-changing operations. Lock, load, and loot, Commander!
UnderMine
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Walker.
An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Shadow Walker.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
Frequently asked about Shadow Walker
- How much does Shadow Walker cost?
- Shadow Walker is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadow Walker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow Walker are CIPHER 61, Tetraphobia, Survivor Mercs.
- Who developed Shadow Walker?
- Shadow Walker was developed by trying to code.
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 Shadow Walker.
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