Games like Hollow Knight
If Hollow Knight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hollow Knight: Silksong, Solateria and There Is No Light 616 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. 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 →Team Cherry's 2017 action-adventure indie title drops players into a vast ruined kingdom populated by insect characters, where exploration and challenging combat take center stage. The game features massive interconnected areas to discover, numerous boss encounters, and a substantial amount of hidden content rewarding thorough investigation. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, challenging, and immersive, with tactical positioning mattering significantly in combat encounters. The solo-only adventure has earned a 97% positive rating from over 176,000 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck. Currently priced at $14.99, the hand-drawn 2D presentation and exploration-focused design have made it a notable entry in the metroidvania and souls-like genres.
About Hollow Knight: Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Players who liked Hollow Knight also play
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Top pick for Hollow Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Solateria
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Second-strongest match for Hollow Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
There Is No Light 616
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Third-strongest match for Hollow Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Battle your way through the horrors and face the greater threats of these miserable lands! There is No Light 616 is a free version of the action-adventure There is No Light with 3 locations, a boss-fight, and an exclusive arena mode!
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Ranked #4 for Hollow Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hollow Knight.
Ranked #5 for Hollow Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hollow Knight.
Ranked #6 for Hollow Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Hollow Knight.
Ranked #7 for Hollow Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Unbound: Worlds Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Ranked #8 for Hollow Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Knight.
Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hollow Knight.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Ori and the Blind Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Hollow Knight.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Hollow Knight.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Reviewers of Hollow Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hollow Knight.
Immortals Fenyx Rising brings grand mythological adventure to life. Play as Fenyx on a quest to save the Greek gods.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hollow Knight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hollow Knight.
The iconic solo pirate adventure returns. Sail the Caribbean as Edward Kenway during the Golden Age of Piracy in this faithfully enhanced remake featuring stunning visuals, upgraded gameplay, and new content.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hollow Knight at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hollow Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hollow Knight.
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 ~67% under Hollow Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Hollow Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hollow Knight.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Hollow Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Hollow Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hollow Knight.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Hollow Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hollow Knight.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Hollow Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Knight.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hollow Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hollow Knight.
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.
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 Hollow Knight.
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 Hollow Knight.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hollow Knight.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Knight.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Hollow Knight.
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 Hollow Knight.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hollow Knight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hollow Knight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Hollow Knight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollow Knight.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Unbound: Worlds Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollow Knight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollow Knight.
Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.
Frequently asked about Hollow Knight
- Is Hollow Knight verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hollow Knight 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 Hollow Knight cost?
- Hollow Knight is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hollow Knight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hollow Knight are Hollow Knight: Silksong, Solateria, There Is No Light 616.
- Who developed Hollow Knight?
- Hollow Knight was developed by Team Cherry.
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