Games like Ashikai
If Ashikai is your kind of game, the closest matches are Auredis: Vaelen's Requiem, Death's Door and Sands of Aura — 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 Ashikai: 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.
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Auredis: Vaelen's Requiem
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Top pick for Ashikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashikai.
The sun is dead. In the golden capital of Sol-Nihil, flesh fuses with stone. As the Unfused Champion, you alone can move through the stagnation. Breach the walls, slay the Puppet King, and destroy the Lich Lord in this punishing, hand-crafted Action RPG.
Death's Door
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Second-strongest match for Ashikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Sands of Aura
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Third-strongest match for Ashikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
Book of Demons
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Ranked #4 for Ashikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself!
Path of Exile 2
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Ranked #5 for Ashikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashikai.
Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.
Spark in the Dark
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Ranked #6 for Ashikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
The hardcore dark fantasy Dungeon Crawler where you will go to the endless depths of a mysterious grim Dungeon.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
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Ranked #7 for Ashikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
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Ranked #8 for Ashikai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ashikai.
A new dark fantasy Three Kingdoms action RPG from Team NINJA, the developers of Nioh.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
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DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ashikai.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Wires And Whiskers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
SCP – Containment Breach
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Death's Door
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Sands of Aura
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ashikai.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Ashikai.
A new dark fantasy Three Kingdoms action RPG from Team NINJA, the developers of Nioh.
Frequently asked about Ashikai
- What games are most similar to Ashikai?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ashikai are Auredis: Vaelen's Requiem, Death's Door, Sands of Aura.
- Who developed Ashikai?
- Ashikai was developed by One Isometric Studio.
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