Games like samurai_jazz
If samurai_jazz is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shin Samurai Jazz, Kunoichi Beat and Miko Funk — 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.
Get personalized picks →About samurai_jazz: An action/adventure game taking ques from both film-noir and samurai-drama's of old, "samurai_jazz" takes players on an adventure through an enigmatic city, engaging in sword-fights, encounters with mythological beings, and quirky dialog with the local inhabitants presented with a pseudo 8-bit style.
Players who liked samurai_jazz also play
Steam players who put hours into samurai_jazz also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Shin Samurai Jazz
WHY THIS
Top pick for samurai_jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Shin Samurai Jazz is a platform-adventure game. It combines the likes of film noir and samurai cinema, presenting them with 8-bit graphics, an electro-jazz soundtrack, and a comic/manga-like style creating a unique atmosphere.
Kunoichi Beat
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for samurai_jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Kunoichi Beat is a pseudo 8-bit, quasi-cinematic platformer with minor stealth elements. Playing as an urban ninja, much of the platforming is parkour-influenced as players will be making use of the environment with the urban ninja’s (slightly over-exaggerated) realistic jumping abilities.
Miko Funk
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for samurai_jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Throughout the pseudo 8-bit beat-em-up called Miko Funk, players will fight various enemies in a manner highly influenced by modern melee combat games from a quasi top-down/isometric perspective. Beyond battling, players will also encounter stealth and puzzle sections.
Princess Shall Prevail
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for samurai_jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Princess Shall Prevail is a pseudo 8-bit, top-down hack-and-slash game that takes heavy influence from the genre’s third-person contemporaries and some influence from scrolling shoot-em-ups. Like how many approach the genres, players will be dodging and timing their attacks accordingly.
iaidoka_interlude
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for samurai_jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
A pseudo 8-bit action platformer taking a bit of inspiration from film-noir and samurai dramas, iaidoka_interlude applies a few parkour and fighting game influences to mix up familiarity with a little uniquity.
Ninjahtic Mind Tricks
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for samurai_jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Ninjahtic Mind Tricks is an 8-bit hack-and-slash platformer with stealth, adventure, and puzzle elements. Like it's predecessor, Ninjahtic, levels have an open-ended nature and are presented in a linear fashion. Though, several features have been added to the predecessor's formula to create a more varied experience.
HIKIBYOU2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for samurai_jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
HIKIBYOU2 is an action/adventure platfomer with puzzle and stealth elements. A bit of what differentiates itself from the first title in the series, Hikikomori No Chuunibyou, is this successor's less realistic approach and more atmospheric vibe. Levels are once again open-ended with the story directing the player.
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for samurai_jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is a pseudo 8-bit platform-adventure game with beat-em-up, puzzle, and stealth elements. With its storytelling directing the player through open-ended levels, progression through each stage requires usage of parkour-like abilities and martial-arts techniques.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below samurai_jazz at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under samurai_jazz on Steam right now. Shares Action with samurai_jazz.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under samurai_jazz on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under samurai_jazz on Steam right now. Shares Indie with samurai_jazz.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under samurai_jazz on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under samurai_jazz on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 samurai_jazz.
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 Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with samurai_jazz.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with samurai_jazz.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Meteor 60 Seconds!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with samurai_jazz.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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More from Blaze Epic
Other recommendable Steam games by Blaze Epic, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
An Imp? A Fiend!
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind samurai_jazz. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Stuck in the Underworld without the slightest clue why, a young fiend has a bit of a mystery to solve in this action/adventure platformer. With a world to explore, a past to uncover, and quite the task to complete, players must embark on a quest filled with monsters, towns, dungeons, bosses, and various platforming challenges.
Shin Samurai Jazz
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind samurai_jazz. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Shin Samurai Jazz is a platform-adventure game. It combines the likes of film noir and samurai cinema, presenting them with 8-bit graphics, an electro-jazz soundtrack, and a comic/manga-like style creating a unique atmosphere.
iaidoka_interlude
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind samurai_jazz. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
A pseudo 8-bit action platformer taking a bit of inspiration from film-noir and samurai dramas, iaidoka_interlude applies a few parkour and fighting game influences to mix up familiarity with a little uniquity.
The Way of the Pixelated Fist
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind samurai_jazz. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
The Way of the Pixelated Fist is a parkour and martial arts inspired free-roaming cinematic platformer. While it blends together the gameplay concepts of The Prince of Persia and Karateka, they are presented with refined controls and other modern innovations to give the game an intuitive and fluid feel.
Ninjahtic
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind samurai_jazz. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Ninjahtic is an action/adventure platformer with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth. While it's progression is linear, the open-ended nature of every level requires exploration of an abandoned civilization located atop floating islands.
Ninjahtic Mind Tricks
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind samurai_jazz. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Ninjahtic Mind Tricks is an 8-bit hack-and-slash platformer with stealth, adventure, and puzzle elements. Like it's predecessor, Ninjahtic, levels have an open-ended nature and are presented in a linear fashion. Though, several features have been added to the predecessor's formula to create a more varied experience.
Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind samurai_jazz. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin is a pseudo 8-bit action platformer. While it integrates gameplay mechanics of the previous titles in the series, they are combined in a manner which differentiates itself from its predecessors.
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind samurai_jazz. Shares Action and Indie with samurai_jazz.
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is a pseudo 8-bit platform-adventure game with beat-em-up, puzzle, and stealth elements. With its storytelling directing the player through open-ended levels, progression through each stage requires usage of parkour-like abilities and martial-arts techniques.
Frequently asked about samurai_jazz
- How much does samurai_jazz cost?
- samurai_jazz is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to samurai_jazz?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside samurai_jazz are Shin Samurai Jazz, Kunoichi Beat, Miko Funk.
- Who developed samurai_jazz?
- samurai_jazz was developed by Blaze Epic.
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 samurai_jazz.
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