Games like The 9th Dragon
If The 9th Dragon is your kind of game, the closest matches are RAGING BILL, Brawler and Yakuza 0 Director's Cut — 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 The 9th Dragon: Fight through the criminal underworld of 1980s Kowloon Walled City: The 9th Dragon is a brutal narrative-driven action game with tactical combat and branching choices, where every decision shapes the fate of the city.
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RAGING BILL
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Top pick for The 9th Dragon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The 9th Dragon.
Raging Bill is a TPS sandbox in a mini open world, largely inspired by games like Goat Simulator. It features different gameplay styles (Shooter & Melee Combat, Racing, Exploration, Loot, Bodycam, and more),
Yakuza 0 Director's Cut
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Third-strongest match for The 9th Dragon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The 9th Dragon.
Discover the decadence and danger of 1980's Japan as you fight like hell through its neon-lit entertainment districts in the definitive edition of the action-adventure crime drama that created yakuza legends.
Hood Story: Kaito Yamazaki
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Ranked #4 for The 9th Dragon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The 9th Dragon.
Discover the thrilling life of « Kaito Yamazaki », a young Japanese delinquent from Osaka. Face love, friendship, and violence in your quest to help Kaito regain control of his life.
Yakuza Undisputed
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Ranked #5 for The 9th Dragon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The 9th Dragon.
Story follows a yakuza member who was framed, spent a couple of years in jail. After being released, he learns that the T.Kimaru gang had taken his belovd"xioyu" captive for been accused of losing the syndicate boss money, can you rescue her from the opposing gang maybe, maybe not. Kimaru awaits you
Vengeance of Mr. Peppermint
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Ranked #6 for The 9th Dragon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The 9th Dragon.
Embody a hard-boiled detective seeking bloody justice. in an old-school, Korean-style beat-’em-up. Plow through the criminal underworld to find and punish those responsible for his sister's death...before his mind unravels and his vengeance completely destroys him.
Troublemaker 2: Beyond Dream
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Ranked #7 for The 9th Dragon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The 9th Dragon.
Teenagers, Dreams, and Drugs. Unveil the secrets of South Jayakarta city, set two years after the ending of the original Troublemaker. The journey of the “Parakacuk” gang continues alongside the “Beyond Dream” band in South Jayakarta city in this fun open-world action-comedy beat-'em-up game.
Wrestling Empire
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Ranked #8 for The 9th Dragon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The 9th Dragon.
The lightweight champion of wrestling comes full circle with higher resolution visuals and a smoother frame rate - whilst still retaining the retro style that puts the fun first! Now featuring whole other booking & roaming modes at no extra cost for the biggest Triple Threat in wrestling.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 The 9th Dragon.
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 The 9th Dragon.
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 The 9th Dragon.
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 The 9th Dragon.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The 9th Dragon.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The 9th Dragon.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The 9th Dragon.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The 9th Dragon.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The 9th Dragon
- What games are most similar to The 9th Dragon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The 9th Dragon are RAGING BILL, Brawler, Yakuza 0 Director's Cut.
- Who developed The 9th Dragon?
- The 9th Dragon was developed by FrameOver and published by Headup.
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 The 9th Dragon.
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