Games like Ghatika
If Ghatika is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hack and Slime, #BLUD and DragonLoop — 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 Ghatika: Ghatika is a 2D side-scrolling action-adventure set in a fantasy world with ancient kingdoms, ruthless polity and mysterious tribes. Explore dense jungles, boulder fields and mountain ranges as you desperately try to secure the safety of your people.
Players who liked Ghatika also play
Steam players who put hours into Ghatika 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.
Hack and Slime
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Top pick for Ghatika fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghatika.
What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.
#BLUD
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Second-strongest match for Ghatika fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghatika.
Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
DragonLoop
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Third-strongest match for Ghatika fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghatika.
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune
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Ranked #4 for Ghatika fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghatika.
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.
White Lavender
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Ranked #5 for Ghatika fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghatika.
A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!
Cross of the Dutchman
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Ranked #6 for Ghatika fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghatika.
Cross of the Dutchman is an action adventure game based on the true story of the folk legend 'Pier Gerlofs Donia'. The story takes place in medieval Western Europe, in the province of Frisia, near the turn of the 16th century.
No Place for Bravery
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Ranked #7 for Ghatika fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghatika.
Thorn, an old warrior worn down by decades of vim and violence, roams a world undone in search of his lost daughter. Dodge, parry & cleave your way out of brutal clashes in this 2D top-down action RPG, and discover the bone-chilling tale of Thorn's crusade to make his family whole again.
Curse of the Sea Rats
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Ranked #8 for Ghatika fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghatika.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Casual with Ghatika.
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 Ghatika.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ghatika.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Ghatika.
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 Casual with Ghatika.
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 Ghatika.
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 Ghatika.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghatika.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Ghatika
- What games are most similar to Ghatika?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ghatika are Hack and Slime, #BLUD, DragonLoop.
- Who developed Ghatika?
- Ghatika was developed by Glass Jar Interactive.
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 Ghatika.
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