Games like Shin Samurai Jazz
If Shin Samurai Jazz is your kind of game, the closest matches are iaidoka_interlude, samurai_jazz and Kunoichi Beat — 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 Shin 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Shin 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.
iaidoka_interlude
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shin Samurai Jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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.
samurai_jazz
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shin Samurai Jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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.
Kunoichi Beat
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shin Samurai Jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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.
Ninjahtic Mind Tricks
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shin Samurai Jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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.
The Way of the Pixelated Fist
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shin Samurai Jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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.
HIKIBYOU2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shin Samurai Jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 #7 for Shin Samurai Jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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.
Freedom Planet 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shin Samurai Jazz fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shin Samurai Jazz at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Shin Samurai Jazz on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin 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 Shin 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 Shin 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 Shin 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 Shin 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 Shin 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 Shin 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 Shin 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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Other recommendable Steam games by Blaze Epic, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
samurai_jazz
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind Shin Samurai Jazz. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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.
An Imp? A Fiend!
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind Shin Samurai Jazz. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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.
iaidoka_interlude
WHY THIS
Another title from Blaze Epic, the studio behind Shin Samurai Jazz. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz. Shares Action and Indie with Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz
- How much does Shin Samurai Jazz cost?
- Shin 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 Shin Samurai Jazz?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shin Samurai Jazz are iaidoka_interlude, samurai_jazz, Kunoichi Beat.
- Who developed Shin Samurai Jazz?
- Shin Samurai Jazz was developed by Blaze Epic.
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