Games like Shadowgate: MacVenture Series
If Shadowgate: MacVenture Series is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Uninvited: MacVenture Series, Vlad Voievod Dracula. Episode 1 Manhunt and Shadowgate — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric horror fantasy setting, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Shadowgate: MacVenture Series: Relive the original MacVenture Series version of Shadowgate! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions to experience where the franchise began.
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The Uninvited: MacVenture Series
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Top pick for Shadowgate: MacVenture Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Relive the original MacVenture Series version of The Uninvited! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions and survive the supernatural dangers of the haunted mansion.
Vlad Voievod Dracula. Episode 1 Manhunt
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shadowgate: MacVenture Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
If you enjoyed NES games like Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Shatterhand, Jorney to Silius you have to try this game! Play as Vlad Tepes Dracula and fight your way to the Wallachian border to take your rightful throne in a new medieval Classicvania game with gorgeous art, and 10 playable characters!
Shadowgate
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Third-strongest match for Shadowgate: MacVenture Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Thrust into the role of "The Seed of Prophecy," players travel deep into the living castle, in hopes of defeating the evil that dwells within – the dreaded Warlock Lord.
Déjà Vu II: MacVenture Series
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shadowgate: MacVenture Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Relive the original MacVenture Series version of Déjà Vu II! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions as a hard-boiled detective in a city full of crime and mystery.
Super Grave Snatchers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Ranked #5 for Shadowgate: MacVenture Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Use necromancy to smash villages, scare townsfolk, and generally cause a ruckus.
Awakened Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Ranked #6 for Shadowgate: MacVenture Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Awakened Evil is an action platformer inspired by the classics. Jump and slash your way through intense linear stages that will put your skills to the test. Do you have what it takes to slay all the bosses, and take on evil itself?
The Castle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Ranked #7 for Shadowgate: MacVenture Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Evil has taken over a small town. But a group of courageous adventurers has decided to organize an expedition to end the feared vampire. Recruit a group of characters to enter the castle and fulfill your mission. But get ready because the castle hides many surprises.
Beyond the Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Ranked #8 for Shadowgate: MacVenture Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Help Selene escape from a mysterious dark forest and defeat her fears in an exciting and powerful point and click adventure that will test your wits with difficult but logical puzzles seamlessly integrated into the story.
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The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Reviewers of Shadowgate: MacVenture Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
Uninvited Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Reviewers of Shadowgate: MacVenture Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
Unwelcome
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shadowgate: MacVenture Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Stay alive in this weird and peculiar horror experience. What begins as a game between friends turns into a race for your life. Take a breath and enter the house.
Deja Vu
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shadowgate: MacVenture Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Get ready for a mindbending cyberpunk experience! Figure out more than a dozen puzzles through your manipulation of time based clones and try to get the best time in each level! Dive into Déjà Vu, inspired by puzzlers like Braid and The Swapper.
Beyond Shadowgate
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Reviewers of Shadowgate: MacVenture Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
The original design of the never-before seen point and click adventure has been brought to life after 30+ years in the vault - Beyond Shadowgate! This new massive game (created by the designer of the original hit Shadowgate and a leading 8-bit adventure studio) is 5 TIMES BIGGER than NES Shadowgate!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadowgate: MacVenture Series at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shadowgate: MacVenture Series on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Shadowgate: MacVenture Series on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
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 ~67% under Shadowgate: MacVenture Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shadowgate: MacVenture Series on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shadowgate: MacVenture Series on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
"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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shadowgate: MacVenture Series on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
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!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shadowgate: MacVenture Series on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Shadowgate
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Another title from Zojoi, the studio behind Shadowgate: MacVenture Series. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Thrust into the role of "The Seed of Prophecy," players travel deep into the living castle, in hopes of defeating the evil that dwells within – the dreaded Warlock Lord.
The Uninvited: MacVenture Series
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Another title from Zojoi, the studio behind Shadowgate: MacVenture Series. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Relive the original MacVenture Series version of The Uninvited! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions and survive the supernatural dangers of the haunted mansion.
Déjà Vu: MacVenture Series
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Another title from Zojoi, the studio behind Shadowgate: MacVenture Series. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Relive the original MacVenture Series version of Déjà Vu! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions and discover a classic detective mystery adventure.
Déjà Vu II: MacVenture Series
WHY THIS
Another title from Zojoi, the studio behind Shadowgate: MacVenture Series. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Relive the original MacVenture Series version of Déjà Vu II! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions as a hard-boiled detective in a city full of crime and mystery.
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mummy's Curse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Another title from Zojoi, the studio behind Shadowgate: MacVenture Series. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
The London Times started it all – calling the murders the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. I accused the tabloid of capitalizing on the superstitions of the populace. Yet, three men were dead, with the wrappings of a 4000-year old mummy binding their fates together.
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Tin Soldier
WHY THIS
Another title from Zojoi, the studio behind Shadowgate: MacVenture Series. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Inspector Smythe from Scotland Yard has informed Watson and me of the murder of General Armstead, a Tontine ticket holder. Something about this case intrigues me. Perhaps it ís that the General was about to publish a scintillating addendum to his infamous book on treasure.
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mystified Murderess
WHY THIS
Another title from Zojoi, the studio behind Shadowgate: MacVenture Series. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
An unassuming woman has been charged with the death of a scoundrel, a fortune-squandering bounder. She was found over the body, pistol in hand but there are other avenues in this case that even the Yard refuses to set foot upon. I have the feeling that there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Argonus and the Gods of Stone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
Another title from Zojoi, the studio behind Shadowgate: MacVenture Series. Shares Adventure with Shadowgate: MacVenture Series.
The creators of Shadowgate present Argonus and the Gods of Stone, an epic first-person adventure set in ancient Greece. Stranded on an uncharted isle, you must use your wits to unlock legendary mysteries, barter with gods and overcome an evil that threatens to bring the world to ruin...
Frequently asked about Shadowgate: MacVenture Series
- How much does Shadowgate: MacVenture Series cost?
- Shadowgate: MacVenture Series is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadowgate: MacVenture Series?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadowgate: MacVenture Series are The Uninvited: MacVenture Series, Vlad Voievod Dracula. Episode 1 Manhunt, Shadowgate.
- Who developed Shadowgate: MacVenture Series?
- Shadowgate: MacVenture Series was developed by Zojoi.
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