Games like Way of the Samurai 4
If Way of the Samurai 4 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Way of the Samurai 3, Nioh 3 and WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark 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 →Way of the Samurai 4 is an action-adventure game set in the port town of Amihama during mid-19th century Japan, following the arrival of Western ships that ended Japan's isolation. Developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and published by Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., the game features a branching narrative with 28 distinct endings and procedural world state changes that respond to player choices across multiple playthroughs. Players manage character relationships including romance options, and engage with a sword-crafting system that includes weapon attribute bingo mechanics and stamina recovery. The sandbox structure supports emergent storytelling through its chaotic systems, with players describing the tone as dark, funny, and immersive. Available for $2.49, it holds a 78% positive rating from over 1,200 Steam reviews but is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Way of the Samurai 4: Way of the Samurai 4 takes place in the humble port town of Amihama during the mid 19th Century, several years after the arrival of the “black ships” from the West ended Japan’s long history of cultural isolation.
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Way of the Samurai 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Top pick for Way of the Samurai 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? Choose your friends and enemies carefully in a game where every decision has far-reaching consequences, and where finishing the game is just the beginning of your journey…
Nioh 3
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Shares an immersive mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Second-strongest match for Way of the Samurai 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
In the third game in the dark samurai action RPG series Nioh, you will need to use both Samurai and Ninja combat styles in your battles against formidable yokai as you explore a thrilling open field.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Third-strongest match for Way of the Samurai 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
Anima: Gate of Memories
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Ranked #4 for Way of the Samurai 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books. Explore a deep and multifaceted story where your choices and actions directly impact the journey and decide the fate of the characters.
Nioh: Complete Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Ranked #5 for Way of the Samurai 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks.
LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Ranked #6 for Way of the Samurai 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Lightning Returns is the concluding chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII saga and series heroine Lightning's final battle. The grand finale of the trilogy brings a world reborn as well as free character customization and stunning action based battles.
After The End: The Harvest
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Ranked #7 for Way of the Samurai 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
The goal is simple, the game is hard, reach the centre. After The End: The Harvest is an immersive retro open-universe space adventure and exploration ARPG. Seamlessly travel across space, catch/train & evolve monsters, take on quests and fight Titans!
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Ranked #8 for Way of the Samurai 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
The minds of New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a new role-playing game set in a world worth saving.
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Yakuza 0
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Reviewers of Way of the Samurai 4 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Reviewers of Way of the Samurai 4 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Shenmue I & II
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Reviewers of Way of the Samurai 4 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
SEGA®’s most requested re-release of all time finally comes to a new generation. Shenmue delivers an epic story of revenge within a unique open world that is still unrivalled in depth and detail. Return to the epic saga that defined modern gaming. The saga begins…again.
Shenmue III
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Reviewers of Way of the Samurai 4 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
Shenmue III sees the eagerly anticipated continuation of the epic story-driven saga. Take control of Ryo Hazuki, a teenage martial artist, determined to unravel the mystery behind his father's murder and to exact revenge on the killer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Way of the Samurai 4 at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~60% under Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~60% under Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
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.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~60% under Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~60% under Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~60% under Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
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Priced ~60% under Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Landlord of the Woods
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Priced ~60% under Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Toree 2
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Priced ~60% under Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
A bite-sized 3D Platformer sequel with more focus on the things people enjoyed in the first game like fast gameplay, flow focused levels and cute costumes (two this time).
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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 Way of the Samurai 4.
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 with Way of the Samurai 4.
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 Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
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 Way of the Samurai 4.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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OCTOPATH TRAVELER™
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Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Way of the Samurai 4.
Eight travelers. Eight adventures. Eight roles to play. Embark on an epic journey across the vast and wondrous world of Orsterra and discover the captivating stories of each of the eight travelers.
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Way of the Samurai 4.
This game is a brand-new entry in the OCTOPATH TRAVELER series, the first installment of which was initially released in 2018 and sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead ＆ Undressed
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Shares a funny mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Way of the Samurai 4. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
In Tokyo’s popular ”Electric Town” district, Akihabara, vampires called “Synthisters” walk among us. You must identify and dispose of them the only way you know how – by engaging them in hand-to-hand combat in order to strip them of their clothes so their bodies melt away in the sunlight.
Hookah Haze
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Way of the Samurai 4. Shares Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
It's the year 2xxx. The inexperienced Toru Sumiki lands a job managing Hookah Haze, a new hookah lounge on the outskirts of Akihabara, where they meet three eccentric girls. The story unfolds as the girls gradually open up to them, connecting through their fondness for hookah...
Way of the Samurai 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Way of the Samurai 4. Shares Action and Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? Choose your friends and enemies carefully in a game where every decision has far-reaching consequences, and where finishing the game is just the beginning of your journey…
Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Way of the Samurai 4.
The magic torches are lit, the monsters are ravenous, and the kingdom is waiting for a new hero. Experience the legendary Wizardry series’ modern rebirth as you traverse perilous dungeons and take on hordes of fantastic enemies. Are you up to the challenge?
KATANA KAMI: A Way of the Samurai Story
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Way of the Samurai 4. Shares Action with Way of the Samurai 4.
The Way of the Samurai is forged in battle! Help the swordsmith Dojima pay off his debt after his beautiful daughter is taken as collateral by crafting swords by day and exploring mysterious, twisting dungeons for valuable materials at night.
All in Abyss: Judge the Fake
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Way of the Samurai 4.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Way of the Samurai 4. Shares Adventure with Way of the Samurai 4.
Either I die, or the Witches perish. I challenge thee to a deathmatch!” Asuha, a self-proclaimed gambling prodigy, challenges the Witch ruling the gambling district. Poised to win, she is defeated by a mysterious power. An adventure of gambling, exposing frauds and earning fortunes through poker.
Frequently asked about Way of the Samurai 4
- Does Way of the Samurai 4 work on Steam Deck?
- Way of the Samurai 4 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Way of the Samurai 4 cost?
- Way of the Samurai 4 is listed on Steam at 2.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Way of the Samurai 4?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Way of the Samurai 4 are Way of the Samurai 3, Nioh 3, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers.
- Who developed Way of the Samurai 4?
- Way of the Samurai 4 was developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and published by Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd..
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