Games like Through Decay
If Through Decay is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shellbound, Mariachi Legends and Phaze Shift — 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 Through Decay: Travel through a fairy-tale world infused with rock culture. Smash enemies with your guitar, solve puzzles, and overcome obstacles in an arcade 2D action-platformer with rhythm-game elements.
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Steam players who put hours into Through Decay 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.
Shellbound
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Top pick for Through Decay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
Shellbound is a 2D metroidvania set on a gigantic snail. You’re a parasite exploring a living world, battling and controlling enemies that will cause the ecosystem to evolve around you. Platform through diverse biomes, solve puzzles, and unravel your role in the giant creature’s life cycle.
Mariachi Legends
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Through Decay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
Mariachi Legends is a brutal, pixel art, combat-oriented Metroidvania set in the heart of Mexico.You play as Pablo Cruz, a detective who has agreed to a deal with Death herself. She has given Pablo the ability to transform into the mighty La Sombra allowing him to fight back against evil.
Phaze Shift
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Through Decay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift! A tag-team, action Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
Plus Ultra: Legado
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Ranked #4 for Through Decay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
Explore a vast, colorful world in this 2D hand-drawn Metroidvania set during the Age of Discoveries. Grab your halberd and become a hero amid the storm!
lil: Essence of Life
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Ranked #5 for Through Decay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Decay.
A hand-drawn Metroidvania focused on exploration, combat, and progression through essence absorption, evolving weapons, and player-driven balance choices.
Necro Pop
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Ranked #6 for Through Decay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
Necro Pop is an all-new action genre platformer we lovingly refer to as Arcadevania. On your adventure, you will discover new abilities, upgrades, secrets. You can free your ghostly friends using multiple combat abilities, magics, and maybe even a minion across multiple re-playable dungeons!
Echoes From The Soul
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Ranked #7 for Through Decay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
"Let the fragments reverberate within your being. Let the echoes from your soul vibrate within every living bodycell. Now, my child, you're whole again. Be it a good or a bad thing, we'll leave for you to choose."
Karma Exorcist
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Ranked #8 for Through Decay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
The underworld lies in ruins, ravaged by evil karma. In this unknown and perilous realm of the dead, you must fight against demonic forces, collect mystical artifacts, face the Yama Kings and the Ghost Emperors, sever the Karma, and reforge the path of reincarnation.
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 Through Decay.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Through Decay.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Decay.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through Decay.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Through Decay.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Decay.
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.
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Frequently asked about Through Decay
- What games are most similar to Through Decay?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Through Decay are Shellbound, Mariachi Legends, Phaze Shift.
- Who developed Through Decay?
- Through Decay was developed by dead flowers games.
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 Through Decay.
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