Games like AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact
If AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact is your kind of game, the closest matches are Breaking Gates, Panda Punch and LarsGadiel — 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.
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Players who liked AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact also play
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Breaking Gates
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Top pick for AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
Intense 2D action with special attacks, aerial combos, and customizable combat in a vibrant, hand-drawn world. Upgrade your skills, forge new items, discover secret paths, and face challenging enemies on a journey to save the kingdom!
Panda Punch
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Second-strongest match for AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
Panda Punch is a puzzle platformer game in which you have to control a red panda and save the world from evil alien robots.
LarsGadiel
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Third-strongest match for AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
LarsGadiel is the prequel to Xenon Valkyrie, a game originally created for Nintendo's 8-bit console that was never released (at least for now), but is now coming to Steam. It's a classic Metroidvania, featuring the original maps and design from that era.
Fallen Tear: The Ascension
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Ranked #4 for AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
A story-driven Metroidvania where the allies you choose to bond with change how you fight and explore. Journey through the high-fantasy world of Raoah, uncover lost civilizations, and forge bonds that shape your path through a land on the brink of collapse.
Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune
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Ranked #5 for AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
This is an anime-style Metroidvania game with an RPG progression system, numerous weapons for switching, and an emphasis on equipment building. It offers three switchable characters, smooth gameplay, impactful combat feedback, and anime-style story scenes.
Kotama and Academy Citadel
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Ranked #6 for AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
In the Academy Citadel, strength reigns supreme: only the most powerful survive and thrive. Fight your way through the high-tech Academy in your quest to get the highest of honors for a student, and uncover secrets that can save it in its direst crisis in this 2.5D side-scrolling Metroidvania.
Curse of the Sea Rats
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Ranked #7 for AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
Embark on an epic, hand-animated, ‘ratoidvania’ adventure, where your crew has been turned into rats by a pirate witch! Explore a rich non-linear world, enjoy fun action platforming, face challenging bosses, and unlock unique abilities - either alone or in local co-op!
Maid of Salvation
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Ranked #8 for AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
The latest title from the HunterX development studio, Maid of Salvation is an action RPG that features fast-paced and versatile combat. Master your own fighting style with a variety of swords and firearms, and explore a dark world full of secrets.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
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 and Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
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 Indie and Adventure with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
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. Shares Indie with AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact
- Does AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact run on Steam Deck?
- AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- What games are most similar to AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact are Breaking Gates, Panda Punch, LarsGadiel.
- Who developed AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact?
- AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact was developed by Dark Pigeon Games and published by ESDigital 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 AWAKEN - Astral Blade: First Contact.
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