Games like Cult of Shadows
If Cult of Shadows is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trials Survivors, Battlecaster 2 and The God That Was — 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 Cult of Shadows: Uncover the secrets of Bel Noa. Fight hordes of cultists and the Mythos they summon. Defeat fearsome beasts, upgrade your character, acquire and enchant weapons. Die and return stronger to face the Cult of Shadows.
Players who liked Cult of Shadows also play
Steam players who put hours into Cult of Shadows 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.
Trials Survivors
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Top pick for Cult of Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Fight through endless hordes in trials bestowed by constellation patrons. Upgrade skills, collect relics, and craft broken builds in true roguelite fashion! Rediscover the fantasy behind the words hack and slash and bullet heaven. Will you survive the densest monster Survivor-like ever created?
Battlecaster 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cult of Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Descend to the center of a hostile world where control, precision, and aggression decide every fight. Push forward and dismantle enemy pressure through skillful play. Shape powerful, expressive builds as danger rises.
The God That Was
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cult of Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
In The God That Was, become a necromancer and raise undead legions in this ARPG isometric-style game. There will be 2 modes; a rogue-lite action game and an expansive sandbox story mode. Both with their own progression system for many hours of gameplay.
Ashikai
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Ranked #4 for Cult of Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
A dark fantasy isometric action RPG where a samurai fights through deadly dungeons to find his lord and make his way back to his family in a yokai-cursed feudal Japan.
DREADMARCH
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Ranked #5 for Cult of Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
A dark fantasy survivor-like where Champions of the Celestial Bastion explore world maps, battle infernal hordes, defeat reclaim fallen kingdoms, and grow stronger through endless campaigns.
Halls of Torment: Prelude
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Ranked #6 for Cult of Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Devil Jam
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Ranked #7 for Cult of Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cult of Shadows.
Devil Jam is a top-down survivor roguelite where you play a rockstar wielding up to 12 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of monsters. Choose from a variety of items to create unique builds and survive until the end.
Masks of the Void: Origins
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Ranked #8 for Cult of Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Throw everything that surrounds you in this telekinesis-based rogue-lite bullet-heaven with the power of the masks! Dive into the Void, uncover the mysteries of the Masks, and face what lies beyond life and death. What will you do to protect your home from obliteration?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cult of Shadows at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~61% under Cult of Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cult of Shadows.
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
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Priced ~61% under Cult of Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
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 ~45% under Cult of Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cult of Shadows.
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.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~65% under Cult of Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cult of Shadows.
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
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Priced ~51% under Cult of Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cult of Shadows.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~61% under Cult of Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cult of Shadows.
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
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Priced ~61% under Cult of Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cult of Shadows.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Cult of Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cult of Shadows.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cult of Shadows.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cult of Shadows.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Cult of Shadows
- How much does Cult of Shadows cost?
- Cult of Shadows is listed on Steam at 12.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cult of Shadows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cult of Shadows are Trials Survivors, Battlecaster 2, The God That Was.
- Who developed Cult of Shadows?
- Cult of Shadows was developed by Squirrel Tail Games.
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 Cult of Shadows.
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