Games like Son of Thanjai
If Son of Thanjai is your kind of game, the closest matches are NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black, Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT — 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 Son of Thanjai: A spoiled prince is betrayed, exiled, and remade into something far more dangerous than a king. Outnumbered and alone, take an empire apart from the inside, with deception, fear, and the Surul Vaal, in a cinematic action-adventure set in an alternate-history medieval South India.
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NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black
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Top pick for Son of Thanjai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Using Unreal Engine 5 to significantly enhance graphic expression, this is the definitive version of "NINJA GAIDEN 2," featuring additional playable characters and enhanced battle support functions.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Son of Thanjai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Experience an epic action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos.
Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
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Third-strongest match for Son of Thanjai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
A storm is coming. Venture into the complete Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT on PC; forge your own path through this open-world action adventure and uncover its hidden wonders. Brought to you by Sucker Punch Productions, Nixxes Software and PlayStation Studios.
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
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Ranked #4 for Son of Thanjai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Son of Thanjai.
Become immersed in exhilarating battles as a nameless hero in the Three Kingdoms
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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Ranked #5 for Son of Thanjai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in a first-person, single-player adventure. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them - Indiana Jones™.
Mafia: The Old Country
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Ranked #6 for Son of Thanjai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Uncover the origins of organized crime in Mafia: The Old Country, a gritty mob story set in the brutal underworld of 1900s Sicily. Fight to survive as Enzo Favara and prove your worth to the Family in this immersive third-person action-adventure.
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue
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Ranked #7 for Son of Thanjai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Introducing Assassin’s Creed® Rogue, the darkest chapter in the Assassin’s Creed franchise yet. As Shay, you will experience the slow transformation from Assassin to Assassin Hunter. Follow your own creed and set off on an extraordinary journey through New York City, the wild river valley, and far away to the icy cold waters of the North...
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
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Ranked #8 for Son of Thanjai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
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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 Son of Thanjai.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
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 and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Son of Thanjai.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
![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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Assassin’s Creed Shadows
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Experience an epic action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos.
Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
A storm is coming. Venture into the complete Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT on PC; forge your own path through this open-world action adventure and uncover its hidden wonders. Brought to you by Sucker Punch Productions, Nixxes Software and PlayStation Studios.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in a first-person, single-player adventure. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them - Indiana Jones™.
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Son of Thanjai.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
Frequently asked about Son of Thanjai
- What games are most similar to Son of Thanjai?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Son of Thanjai are NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT.
- Who developed Son of Thanjai?
- Son of Thanjai was developed by Ayelet Studio.
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