Games like Sliding Hero
If Sliding Hero is your kind of game, the closest matches are Isles of Sea and Sky, INK MAZE and Vitrified — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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 Sliding Hero: Sliding Hero is a top-down puzzle Metroidvania where movement is key—think carefully, as once you start sliding you won’t stop until you hit something! Imprisoned in a sinister 1700s Venetian villa, explore a world of Carnival mystery, solve devious puzzles, uncover secrets, and unmask your fate.
Players who liked Sliding Hero also play
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Isles of Sea and Sky
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Top pick for Sliding Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
INK MAZE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sliding Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sliding Hero.
Chart your own path through a fog-shrouded dungeon in INK MAZE! Design cryptic treasure maps to solve puzzles, outsmart traps, and collect loot hidden within the mist. But when you reach the depths of the maze, will you still be able to decipher the symbols you charted long ago?
Vitrified
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Sliding Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
Join forces with ALAN the service bot in this mysterious post-nuclear metroidvania. Explore a deadly mutant wasteland, upgrade ALAN with abilities that unlock new areas, and uncover the secrets of The Worm.
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Ranked #4 for Sliding Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!
Crystal Project
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration and a nostalgic mood with Sliding Hero.
Ranked #5 for Sliding Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares hidden collectibles and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Ranked #6 for Sliding Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Supraland
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression, metroidvania exploration and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Ranked #7 for Sliding Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, backtracking and atmospheric with Sliding Hero.
Ranked #8 for Sliding Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Sliding Hero
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Red Ronin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Reviewers of Sliding Hero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
Red Ronin is a Turn-based but fast paced dash 'n slash game where a bloodthirsty ronin and her companion bot search for revenge.
Yoku's Island Express
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Sliding Hero.
Reviewers of Sliding Hero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!
Mines and Magic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sliding Hero.
Reviewers of Sliding Hero cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Multiplayer tower defense auto battler with economy. Combine unique abilities of your units. Expand territory and build mines to get resources. Find a balance between economy and army. Use spells to help your army. Relaxing, but challenging singleplayer campaign is available.
Isles of Sea and Sky
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Reviewers of Sliding Hero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Equinox
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sliding Hero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Sliding Hero.
This game serves as a demonstration of a new approach to 2D fighting game development. All distracting elements were stripped away, creating a single dimension of play that forces players to rely on their fight mechanics and read the opponents' movements rather than mash buttons.
The Big Below
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sliding Hero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
Take on the role of a little gnome exploring twisting, secret-filled dungeons in this retro, top-down adventure game.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
WHY THIS
Shares atmospheric and a nostalgic mood with Sliding Hero.
Reviewers of Sliding Hero cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares hidden collectibles and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Reviewers of Sliding Hero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sliding Hero at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Sliding Hero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sliding Hero.
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 ~67% under Sliding Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Sliding Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sliding Hero.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Sliding Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Sliding Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sliding Hero.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Sliding Hero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sliding Hero.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Sliding Hero on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Sliding Hero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sliding Hero.
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.
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 and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
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 and Indie with Sliding Hero.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sliding Hero.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sliding Hero.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
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 Sliding Hero.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Isles of Sea and Sky
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!
Crystal Project
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration and a nostalgic mood with Sliding Hero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sliding Hero.
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares hidden collectibles and an atmospheric mood with Sliding Hero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, backtracking and atmospheric with Sliding Hero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sliding Hero.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Frequently asked about Sliding Hero
- Is Sliding Hero verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Sliding Hero is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Sliding Hero cost?
- Sliding Hero is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sliding Hero?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sliding Hero are Isles of Sea and Sky, INK MAZE, Vitrified.
- Who developed Sliding Hero?
- Sliding Hero was developed by Silent Chicken and published by Silent Chicken, WhisperGames.
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