Games like Malleus Maleficarum
If Malleus Maleficarum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kalinur, Lola's Familiars: Prison of Argnoh and Alwa's Legacy — 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 Malleus Maleficarum: A Metroidvania inspired by the mechanics and style of classic games in the genre. Help Mirabel find different ways to explore a haunted mansion and hunt terrifying witches while gaining new weapons and discovering more about the macabre experiments carried out by demonic beings.
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Kalinur
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Top pick for Malleus Maleficarum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.
Lola's Familiars: Prison of Argnoh
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Second-strongest match for Malleus Maleficarum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Escape a demonic underworld prison in this stunning anime inspired lite-vania adventure. Explore mysterious magical realms, forge pacts with powerful Familiar bosses, uncover dark secrets, and guide Lola through an emotional journey of growth in a haunting dark fantasy world.
Alwa's Legacy
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Third-strongest match for Malleus Maleficarum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Toziuha Night: Dracula's Revenge
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Ranked #4 for Malleus Maleficarum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Follow the story of Xandria, the iron alchemist. Seeking revenge, she accepts the dangerous mission to put an end to the evil that resides in Dracula's castle and torments the people of Transylvania. Fight with an iron whip in this retro-style & Classic-Vania adventure.
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
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Ranked #5 for Malleus Maleficarum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Malleus Maleficarum.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
Haiku, the Robot
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Ranked #6 for Malleus Maleficarum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Timespinner
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Ranked #7 for Malleus Maleficarum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Odallus: The Dark Call
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Ranked #8 for Malleus Maleficarum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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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 Malleus Maleficarum.
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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 Malleus Maleficarum.
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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 Malleus Maleficarum.
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 Malleus Maleficarum.
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 Malleus Maleficarum.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
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Alwa's Legacy
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Haiku, the Robot
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Malleus Maleficarum.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Frequently asked about Malleus Maleficarum
- What games are most similar to Malleus Maleficarum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Malleus Maleficarum are Kalinur, Lola's Familiars: Prison of Argnoh, Alwa's Legacy.
- Who developed Malleus Maleficarum?
- Malleus Maleficarum was developed by Hairgression.
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