Games like Skull Horde
If Skull Horde is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loot Frog, Don't Wake the Beast and Leaping Dungeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, dark and relaxing. 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 Skull Horde: Skull Horde is an auto battler dungeon crawler where you play as a flying skull necromancer. Find powerful loot and create overpowered builds. Summon a horde of skeletons in a battle of bone versus flesh!
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Loot Frog
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Top pick for Skull Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Skull Horde.
Loot Frog is an incremental action bullet hell about breaking pots, collecting gems, and fighting an evil cult. Upgrade your gear, unlock new abilities, explore diverse biomes, and push deeper into increasingly chaotic battles.
Don't Wake the Beast
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Skull Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Skull Horde.
In Don't Wake the Beast, a roguelite stealth game, you’ll sneak through ever-changing dungeons to steal precious treasures guarded by deadly beasts. Use your trusty grappling hook to evade traps, outsmart enemies, and solve puzzles. But beware—each treasure you claim makes escaping more dangerous!
Leaping Dungeon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Skull Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Skull Horde.
Wield 6 weapons and 3 tongues simultaneously in this fusion of Bullet-Heaven combat and procedural dungeon crawling. Build a vengeful frog with stacking passives and rare items. Lick, smack, and shoot your way through deadly rooms, leaping over swarms to escape danger. Get those tadpoles back!
Lands of Fury
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Skull Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Fight your way up a brutal mountain. Combine weapons, cartridges, runes, and companions to create devastating combat builds and carve through relentless enemies in this combat-driven roguelite ARPG.
Unwanted Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares auto battle, wave based survival and action with Skull Horde.
Ranked #5 for Skull Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
A dark fantasy survivorslike with classic ARPG essence: Deep builds, rare loot, NPC shops, shared storage, and a semi-procedural dungeon with bosses, events, and curses. Fast-paced roguelite action meets old-school dungeon crawling. Every lost run is a new idea. Welcome to Unwanted Dungeon!
PinPow
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Ranked #6 for Skull Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Skull Horde.
PinPow is a turn-based roguelike pinball RPG where you play as a hero sucked into an otherworldly pinball machine - battling your way through chaotic dungeons, and enemies to defeat the evil Pinball Wizard. Strategize your shots, upgrade your hero, and bounce your way to victory!
Hell Clock
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Shares a dark mood with Skull Horde.
Ranked #7 for Skull Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.
Don't Die, Collect Loot
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a chill mood with Skull Horde.
Ranked #8 for Skull Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Skull Horde.
It's time to become ridiculously powerful in an arcade roguelite RPG with no limits on your power! Guide your hero through infinite retro fantasy worlds, get loot, gain upgrades, and keep growing their power as you rip through hordes of enemies in the ultimate power fantasy!
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Vampire Survivors
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Reviewers of Skull Horde cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Casual with Skull Horde.
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!
Megabonk
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, build variety and action with Skull Horde.
Reviewers of Skull Horde cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Casual with Skull Horde.
Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Skull Horde.
Reviewers of Skull Horde cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Brotato
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Skull Horde cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Casual with Skull Horde.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Skull Horde at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~62% under Skull Horde on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Skull Horde.
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 ~62% under Skull Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Skull Horde.
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 ~46% under Skull Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Skull Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Skull Horde on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Skull Horde.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~62% under Skull Horde on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Skull Horde.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Skull Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Skull Horde.
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 ~77% under Skull Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Skull Horde.
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 Skull Horde.
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.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Skull Horde.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Skull Horde.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with Skull Horde.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
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More from 8BitSkull
Other recommendable Steam games by 8BitSkull, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
BORE BLASTERS
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression, meta progression and dungeon crawler with Skull Horde.
Another title from 8BitSkull, the studio behind Skull Horde. Shares Action and Adventure with Skull Horde.
Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.
Void Scrappers
WHY THIS
Another title from 8BitSkull, the studio behind Skull Horde. Shares Action with Skull Horde.
Blast hordes of alien ships into junk. Collect the scrap to upgrade your ship into an unstoppable force of destruction. Unlock new characters and weapons and upgrade your stats between runs.
Fates of Ort
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Skull Horde.
Another title from 8BitSkull, the studio behind Skull Horde. Shares Adventure with Skull Horde.
Fates of Ort is a retro fantasy RPG focused on strategic action, in a land where time is frozen when you stand still. Cast powerful spells - but beware, they will cost you your life.
Frequently asked about Skull Horde
- Does Skull Horde run on Steam Deck?
- Skull Horde is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Skull Horde cost?
- Skull Horde is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Skull Horde?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skull Horde are Loot Frog, Don't Wake the Beast, Leaping Dungeon.
- Who developed Skull Horde?
- Skull Horde was developed by 8BitSkull.
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