Games like Shadow of the Orient
If Shadow of the Orient is your kind of game, the closest matches are Son of Thanjai, Bunraku and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge — 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 of the Orient: Shadow of the Orient is a 2d pixel art action platformer where you play as a young warrior named Xiaolang who must venture across the orient fighting hordes of Samurai warriors and mythical creatures in an attempt to rescue the kidnapped children of the orient and face off against the dark lord.
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Son of Thanjai
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Top pick for Shadow of the Orient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
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.
Bunraku
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shadow of the Orient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow of the Orient.
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!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shadow of the Orient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.
Freyr's Love
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Ranked #4 for Shadow of the Orient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
An adventure beyond myths. Control the gods and witness the story through Skirnir. Kill them all.
Ninja Kunoichi
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Ranked #5 for Shadow of the Orient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
This is an exciting "NINJA" action game with a 16-bit taste!
The Last Soldier of the Ming Dynasty
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Ranked #6 for Shadow of the Orient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
The Japanese pirates have terrorized the Ming Dynasty for generations. You've devoted your life as a soldier to fighting them.And now you are in their turf, alone with your sword; the last soldier in pirate's land in this 3D-action game inspired by traditional Chinese ink painting landscapes.
Endless Samurai
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Ranked #7 for Shadow of the Orient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
One Strike. Total Tension. A Japanese parry-driven roguelite that blends turn-based depth with fast-paced action. Master the parry. Control the battle.
Miko Melee
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Ranked #8 for Shadow of the Orient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
Fight monsters and keep the village safe!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadow of the Orient at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Shadow of the Orient on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow of the Orient.
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
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Priced ~55% under Shadow of the Orient on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow of the Orient.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Shadow of the Orient on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Shadow of the Orient on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow of the Orient.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Shadow of the Orient on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow of the Orient.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Shadow of the Orient on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow of the Orient.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Shadow of the Orient on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~80% under Shadow of the Orient on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
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 Shadow of the Orient.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
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 with Shadow of the Orient.
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.
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 Shadow of the Orient.
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 Adventure with Shadow of the Orient.
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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Frequently asked about Shadow of the Orient
- How much does Shadow of the Orient cost?
- Shadow of the Orient is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadow of the Orient?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow of the Orient are Son of Thanjai, Bunraku, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge.
- Who developed Shadow of the Orient?
- Shadow of the Orient was developed by Spacelab 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 Shadow of the Orient.
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