Games like Shadow Complex Remastered
If Shadow Complex Remastered is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cube Crusaders, MindKatt:First Strike and STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and nostalgic. 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 Shadow Complex Remastered: ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.
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Cube Crusaders
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Top pick for Shadow Complex Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Adoros is dying. A catastrophic Void Anomaly has torn open the planet’s surface, warping reality and unleashing forces no one fully understands. You are a Cube Crusader sent to crush the Anomaly, at any cost.
MindKatt:First Strike
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shadow Complex Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
An action-adventure game set in a dystopian future where mentally evolved cats fight for their freedom using robotic suits to interact with the human world.
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Third-strongest match for Shadow Complex Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Strider returns in a brand new adventure, complete with incredible side-scrolling action, and lightning fast combat all in a massive interconnected world! Download the full game February 19th and become the original assassin!
Headlander
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Ranked #4 for Shadow Complex Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their minds into robotic imposter bodies and are ruled by a computer.
Dex
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Ranked #5 for Shadow Complex Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.
GRIME
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Ranked #6 for Shadow Complex Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda EX
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Ranked #7 for Shadow Complex Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
A 2.5D action-packed side-scrolling game, takes players on a thrilling sci-fi adventure! Take control of combat specialist Ares, or the new playable character, Tarus, to battle deadly machines with a variety of powerful weapons and armor. Your goal: Save Minos Space Station’s survivors and uncover the nefarious Zytron’s extinction agenda!
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Ranked #8 for Shadow Complex Remastered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
Mega Man Legacy Collection
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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“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.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.
Uncharted Waters II
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Reviewers of Shadow Complex Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play.
"Uncharted Waters II" was released in 1993, the second game of the series. It is set primarily in Europe of the 16th century, the time of exploration. Players choose from among 6 different characters, each with their own background.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
Uncharted Ocean
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Reviewers of Shadow Complex Remastered cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
This is a world of oceans, islands and ships. Players will start their own journey from Faro, facing an impermanent ocean and awkward opponents, and gradually build a strong fleet with wisdom and luck. The chaotic seas and tempting treasures, under the guidance of the banner, work hard for survival！
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadow Complex Remastered at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Shadow Complex Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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.
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Priced ~53% under Shadow Complex Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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
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Priced ~47% under Shadow Complex Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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
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Priced ~70% under Shadow Complex Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Shadow Complex Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under Shadow Complex Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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 ~80% under Shadow Complex Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~67% under Shadow Complex Remastered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
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 Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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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.
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Strider returns in a brand new adventure, complete with incredible side-scrolling action, and lightning fast combat all in a massive interconnected world! Download the full game February 19th and become the original assassin!
Headlander
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their minds into robotic imposter bodies and are ruled by a computer.
GRIME
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Shadow Complex Remastered.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Frequently asked about Shadow Complex Remastered
- Is Shadow Complex Remastered verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shadow Complex Remastered 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 Shadow Complex Remastered cost?
- Shadow Complex Remastered is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadow Complex Remastered?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow Complex Remastered are Cube Crusaders, MindKatt:First Strike, STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®.
- Who developed Shadow Complex Remastered?
- Shadow Complex Remastered was developed by ChAIR Entertainment and published by Epic Games.
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