Games like Karate Survivor
If Karate Survivor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Polycar Blitz, Swarmcade and Rogue: Genesia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cinematic, epic and funny. 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 Karate Survivor: Become a martial arts master in this survivor-like roguelite inspired by action movies of the ‘80s. Use your fists, feet, and the environment to fight off relentless thugs. Master powerful combos, enhance your skills, and remember: everything around you is a weapon!
Players who liked Karate Survivor also play
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Polycar Blitz
WHY THIS
Top pick for Karate Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Shift into high gear and defend the moon! In this top-down rougelike vehicle shooter, gun down monsters and upgrade your Polycar to fend off against increasingly difficult waves of alien invaders! Do you have what it takes to win?
Swarmcade
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Karate Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Survive the relentless swarm in this arcade take on the Bullet Heaven/Survivors-like Action Roguelite. Slay 1000s of foes, level up, loot chests and make your character more powerful than ever. Unlock meta-progression upgrades and more heroes, so you can even the odds on future runs.
Rogue: Genesia
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and an epic mood with Karate Survivor.
Third-strongest match for Karate Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Karate Survivor.
Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
Sharded World
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Karate Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
Breaking Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Karate Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Karate Survivor.
Brick-breaking gameplay meets Survivors-like mechanics. Use your balls to destroy bricks, level up and pick upgrades to hold your ground against waves of incoming bricks and try to high score in this roguelite brick breaking game.
Noobs Want to Live
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Karate Survivor.
Ranked #6 for Karate Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!
Skybreakers
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, replayability, action and an epic mood with Karate Survivor.
Ranked #7 for Karate Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Skybreakers is an action roguelike thriller. Choose from various characters, arm yourself with a vast array of weapons, and create your own unique build by combining artifacts, random talents, abilities, and bonds. Plunge into exhilarating combat and use unique abilities to defeat the evil.
Doomsday Hunters
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and an intense mood with Karate Survivor.
Ranked #8 for Karate Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
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Streets of Rage 4
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Karate Survivor.
Reviewers of Karate Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
Midnight Fury
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Karate Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Experience a TV show featuring Max Cobra and his teammates as they clean up zombies in quarantine zones. Impress sponsors and boost your fame.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Karate Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
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!
Punch Club
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Karate Survivor.
Reviewers of Karate Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.
Putrefaction 2: Rumble in the hometown
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Karate Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Putrefaction 2: Rumble in the hometown is a stand-alone campaign for Putrefaction 2: Void Walker, with new levels and enemies to fight. You can play this game without purchasing original Putrefaction 2.
Mortal Kombat 1
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Karate Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!
Sifu
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Karate Survivor.
Reviewers of Karate Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Sifu is a realistic third-person brawler with tight Kung Fu combat mechanics and cinematic martial arts action embarking you on a path for revenge.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, boss fights, character driven and a funny mood with Karate Survivor.
Reviewers of Karate Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
Join the Turtle brothers straight from the sewers and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Karate Survivor at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Karate Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
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 Karate Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
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 Karate Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
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 Karate Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Karate Survivor.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Karate Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Karate Survivor.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Karate Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Karate Survivor.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Karate Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
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 Karate Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Karate Survivor.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
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 and Indie with Karate Survivor.
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]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
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 Karate Survivor.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Karate Survivor.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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More from Alawar
Other recommendable Steam games by Alawar, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wall World
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Karate Survivor. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
Necrosmith
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Karate Survivor. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
Beholder: Conductor
WHY THIS
Shares character driven and a funny mood with Karate Survivor.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Karate Survivor. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Wall World 2
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization and wave based survival with Karate Survivor.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Karate Survivor. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!
Necrosmith 2
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, meta progression and action with Karate Survivor.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Karate Survivor. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
They Always Run
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Karate Survivor.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Karate Survivor. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
Become Aiden, a three-armed mutant who hunts the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. Catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies in this exciting 2D platformer with a space-western setting.
The Happy Hereafter
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Karate Survivor.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Karate Survivor. Shares Casual with Karate Survivor.
Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!
The Last Gas Station
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Karate Survivor.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Karate Survivor. Shares Indie and Casual with Karate Survivor.
In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Swarmcade
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Survive the relentless swarm in this arcade take on the Bullet Heaven/Survivors-like Action Roguelite. Slay 1000s of foes, level up, loot chests and make your character more powerful than ever. Unlock meta-progression upgrades and more heroes, so you can even the odds on future runs.
Breaking Survivors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Casual with Karate Survivor.
Brick-breaking gameplay meets Survivors-like mechanics. Use your balls to destroy bricks, level up and pick upgrades to hold your ground against waves of incoming bricks and try to high score in this roguelite brick breaking game.
Doomsday Hunters
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and an intense mood with Karate Survivor.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
Frequently asked about Karate Survivor
- Is Karate Survivor verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Karate Survivor 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 Karate Survivor cost?
- Karate Survivor is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Karate Survivor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Karate Survivor are Polycar Blitz, Swarmcade, Rogue: Genesia.
- Who developed Karate Survivor?
- Karate Survivor was developed by Alawar.
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