Games like Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
If Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is your kind of game, the closest matches are SCARLET NEXUS, DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT and Tales of Berseria™ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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.
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SCARLET NEXUS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Top pick for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.
DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
The Dragon Ball RPG of your dreams! For the first time, you can play the rest of the story. Step into the universe of Dragon Ball Z in all its iconic glory and become the hero you were always meant to be!
Tales of Berseria™
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Players embark on a journey of self-discovery as they assume the role of Velvet, a young woman whose once kind demeanor has been replaced and overcome with a festering anger and hatred after a traumatic experience three years prior to the events within Tales of Berseria.
Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Ranked #4 for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Join the young king Evan as he sets out on an epic quest to found a new kingdom and, with the help of some new friends, unite his world, saving its people from a terrible evil.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Ranked #5 for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Ys returns with a brand new adventure for the first time in 8 years! Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island.
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Ranked #6 for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas combines captivating storytelling, breathtaking 3D visuals and exciting gameplay into one epic action-adventure experience. In the game you explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles and secrets.
Edge Of Eternity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Ranked #7 for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Wage epic turn-based battles as you follow Daryon and Selene on their quest to find a cure to the all-consuming Corrosion in this grand tale of hope and sacrifice, created by a small team of passionate JRPG lovers.
ONE PIECE World Seeker
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Leave your compass behind and join Luffy as he embarks on a brand new action-packed adventure where you can experience the powers of the legendary Gum-Gum fruit to uncover hidden secrets on an original, never-before-seen island!
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Evoland
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game.
Jet Gunner
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Reviewers of Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Jet Gunner is a 2D platform action indie game that's full of Nestalgia. Full of action, gunfights, bosses and explosions so if you're into the whole 8-Bit vibe you should love this. From the sound, to the graphics to the flicker, this should pay tribute to those classic hard as nails, run 'n' gun games.
Undertale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Reviewers of Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM allows players to battle in full 3D across massive environments. Players will unleash powerful jutsu attacks, perform acrobatic evasive maneuvers and even run up walls. NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM has been remastered in HD.
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Reviewers of Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Team Avatar is back! Relive the epic adventure of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series, as you play as Aang and his 8 friends to explore the most unique locations from the series, solve challenging puzzles and experience the most heart touching moments of Aang’s story
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
SCARLET NEXUS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.
DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
The Dragon Ball RPG of your dreams! For the first time, you can play the rest of the story. Step into the universe of Dragon Ball Z in all its iconic glory and become the hero you were always meant to be!
Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Join the young king Evan as he sets out on an epic quest to found a new kingdom and, with the help of some new friends, unite his world, saving its people from a terrible evil.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Ys returns with a brand new adventure for the first time in 8 years! Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island.
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas combines captivating storytelling, breathtaking 3D visuals and exciting gameplay into one epic action-adventure experience. In the game you explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles and secrets.
Edge Of Eternity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Wage epic turn-based battles as you follow Daryon and Selene on their quest to find a cure to the all-consuming Corrosion in this grand tale of hope and sacrifice, created by a small team of passionate JRPG lovers.
ONE PIECE World Seeker
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
Leave your compass behind and join Luffy as he embarks on a brand new action-packed adventure where you can experience the powers of the legendary Gum-Gum fruit to uncover hidden secrets on an original, never-before-seen island!
Frequently asked about Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
- Is Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom cost?
- Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom are SCARLET NEXUS, DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT, Tales of Berseria™.
- Who developed Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom?
- Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom was developed by Enigami and published by Focus Entertainment.
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 Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
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