Games like Kindred Kind
If Kindred Kind is your kind of game, the closest matches are Runic Curse Remastered, Mouseward and Lunarium — 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 Kindred Kind: Kindred Kind is a hand-drawn 2D action RPG. Hunt eight powerful beasts across a branching world, master a two-weapon combat system, and save what remains of humanity. Explore, fight, and uncover ancient mysteries, in a world teetering on the edge of ruin.
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Steam players who put hours into Kindred Kind 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.
Runic Curse Remastered
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Top pick for Kindred Kind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Runic Curse Remastered is a thrilling action RPG Metroidvania that transports you to a cursed island. Explore dark and diverse locations, battle hordes of enemies and mighty bosses. Forge your own playstyle by combining various weapons with magical runes to overcome all challenges.
Mouseward
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Second-strongest match for Kindred Kind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Take up your sword and uncover the secrets of a cursed kingdom in this soulslike collectathon. Awaken as a Royal Mouse Guard, master combat, defeat foes and search for celestial fragments to restore a once great kingdom.
Lunarium
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Third-strongest match for Kindred Kind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Lunarium is an atmospheric fantasy A-RPG. Play as Ave, a light-armored knight, who teams up with Lune, a mysterious Starfarer. Together, they journey to save a dying world, engaging in challenging battles to retrieve the lost glow of the stars and forsaken memories, unveiling cosmic secrets.
The Relic: First Guardian
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Ranked #4 for Kindred Kind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kindred Kind.
A dark action RPG rooted in Korean mythology, with brutal, fast combat.
God of War
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Ranked #5 for Kindred Kind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kindred Kind.
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
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Ranked #6 for Kindred Kind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
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Ranked #7 for Kindred Kind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter
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Ranked #8 for Kindred Kind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Embark upon a vast, snow-ravaged kingdom in Tails of Iron 2, sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG. As Arlo, heir to the Warden of the Wastes, adventure through harsh northern lands, home to giant beasts and ragtag bandits, in an epic quest to overcome an ancient, blood-starved evil.
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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 Kindred Kind.
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 Kindred Kind.
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 Kindred Kind.
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 Kindred Kind.
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 Kindred Kind.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindred Kind.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindred Kind.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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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.
God of War
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Kindred Kind.
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Kindred Kind.
Embark upon a vast, snow-ravaged kingdom in Tails of Iron 2, sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG. As Arlo, heir to the Warden of the Wastes, adventure through harsh northern lands, home to giant beasts and ragtag bandits, in an epic quest to overcome an ancient, blood-starved evil.
Frequently asked about Kindred Kind
- What games are most similar to Kindred Kind?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kindred Kind are Runic Curse Remastered, Mouseward, Lunarium.
- Who developed Kindred Kind?
- Kindred Kind was developed by Unpossible Game Labs.
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