Games like Noctheria
If Noctheria is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sword of Hokushin, Tearscape and Blasphemous — 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 Noctheria: A retro horror action-adventure. Explore cursed dungeons, solve their puzzles, and find the tools that open each new path. All while uncovering the truth of ancient gods.
Players who liked Noctheria also play
Steam players who put hours into Noctheria 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.
Sword of Hokushin
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Top pick for Noctheria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
A grand evil has cast the world into the Forever Night. Play as Renima, a celestial guardian awakened after millennia to hunt the demons who shattered the balance between realms. Explore the esoteric world of Azareth, uncover forgotten secrets, and restore light to a dying world.
Tearscape
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Second-strongest match for Noctheria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
As a hunter, you explore a dark, interconnected world filled with dungeons, relying on precise combat to survive. Battle grotesque monsters, expand your arsenal, and uncover hidden paths in a non-linear, pixel art journey.
Blasphemous
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Third-strongest match for Noctheria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
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.
The Last Faith
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Ranked #4 for Noctheria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
Mark of the Deep
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Ranked #5 for Noctheria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
Shipwrecked on a myth-shrouded island, play as rookie pirate Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey and explore haunting biomes, face unforgiving combat, and unravel a deep-sea curse in search of your lost crew, the Angry Mermaids.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
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Ranked #6 for Noctheria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Noctheria.
As Raziel, stalk the shadows of Nosgoth preying upon your former vampire brethren in your quest to destroy your creator- Kain. After being betrayed and executed by Kain, return to Nosgoth on an epic mission of revenge. A milestone in 3D adventure.
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance
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Ranked #7 for Noctheria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Noctheria.
Enter the dark world of Nosgoth – Ascendance is a fast paced, 2D action platformer built around fluid combat, vertical movement, vampiric powers, and skill-driven play.
Blue Fire
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Ranked #8 for Noctheria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
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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 Noctheria.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Noctheria.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Noctheria.
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 Noctheria.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Noctheria.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noctheria.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Tearscape
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
As a hunter, you explore a dark, interconnected world filled with dungeons, relying on precise combat to survive. Battle grotesque monsters, expand your arsenal, and uncover hidden paths in a non-linear, pixel art journey.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
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.
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Noctheria.
Enter the dark world of Nosgoth – Ascendance is a fast paced, 2D action platformer built around fluid combat, vertical movement, vampiric powers, and skill-driven play.
Blue Fire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Noctheria.
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
Frequently asked about Noctheria
- What games are most similar to Noctheria?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Noctheria are Sword of Hokushin, Tearscape, Blasphemous.
- Who developed Noctheria?
- Noctheria was developed by zombiebytegames.
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 Noctheria.
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