Games like The Shadow Cosmos
If The Shadow Cosmos is your kind of game, the closest matches are TSAREVNA. Age of Tales, Windweaver and Thorn Knight — 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 The Shadow Cosmos: A 3D metroidvania with retro aesthetic. As master peacock, delve into a mysterious, dream-like world with non-linear exploration and progression, stylish and challenging fights with a powerful halberd, tricky parkour and puzzles. Collect shadows, unleash darkness.
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TSAREVNA. Age of Tales
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Top pick for The Shadow Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Shadow Cosmos.
The world's first ballet-inspired action. Become the Tsarevna and carve your way through a dark Slavic fairy tale where beauty becomes a weapon. Chain stylish combos, master graceful swordplay, and turn every battle into a deadly dance.
Windweaver
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Second-strongest match for The Shadow Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
Windweaver is a blisteringly fast 3D platformer - chain together abilities to tear your way across a vast world to get back home, whilst learning that the truth of the world may not be as it was told... Master dashing, diving, fall-charging and various abilities to traverse many hand-crafted levels.
Thorn Knight
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Third-strongest match for The Shadow Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
Fight. Die. Rise. Until your vow is fulfilled. Thorn Knight is a dark isometric action rogue-lite where ruthless, combo-driven combat meets a tower twisted by cursed echoes and buried sins. Every fight tests your skill. Every floor leads you deeper.
Twin Hooks
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Ranked #4 for The Shadow Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
Two heroes, one fight. Team up in a 2-player co-op brawler where you juggle enemies skyward together, land synchronized takedowns, shop and loot your way to stronger gear. Wholesome by day. Relentless by night.
Slay The Berserker
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Ranked #5 for The Shadow Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
Slay The Berserker: A solo developer's 3D hack and slash dark fantasy game with 2000's retro style. Find your path with stylish platforming movements as you slay enemies in half. Face challenging bosses across diverse biomes in your quest to Slay The Berserker.
DYNASTY WARRIORS 3: Complete Edition Remastered
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Ranked #6 for The Shadow Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Shadow Cosmos.
A warrior worth a thousand reforged. A remake of DYNASTY WARRIORS 3 and DYNASTY WARRIORS 3: Xtreme Legends with modern graphics and even more thrilling action.
Soulstice
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Ranked #7 for The Shadow Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Shadow Cosmos.
Explore a dark world brimming with hidden mysteries, master a diverse combat system, and inhabit the dual forces of two sisters in a coming-of-age dark fantasy story with fast-paced action, vicious enemies, and spectacular boss fights.
Shady Knight
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Ranked #8 for The Shadow Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
Shady Knight is a first-person skill-driven melee action game centered around swift swordplay, acrobatic archery, and fluid platforming that seamlessly blends combat and parkour skills into a stylish dance of death full of creative chaos.
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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 The Shadow Cosmos.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Shadow Cosmos.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Lily's Well
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shadow Cosmos.
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.
erdetspill
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
Bestefar vil ha 2 is. Du må skaffe de. Det viser seg å være mer komplisert enn du trodde. Et absurd førstepersons-eventyrspill der du navigerer norsk byråkrati, snakker med rare folk og løser meningsløse oppdrag - i en liten norsk bygd.
Liquidators
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shadow Cosmos.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Wires And Whiskers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
SCP – Containment Breach
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Shadow Cosmos.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
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Frequently asked about The Shadow Cosmos
- What games are most similar to The Shadow Cosmos?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Shadow Cosmos are TSAREVNA. Age of Tales, Windweaver, Thorn Knight.
- Who developed The Shadow Cosmos?
- The Shadow Cosmos was developed by MadMedois, SandRaw and published by MadMedois.
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 The Shadow Cosmos.
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