Games like Starving Shadows
If Starving Shadows is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abyss Ring, STEEL HEAVEN and Pass the Fear — 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 Starving Shadows: Eat. Adapt. Survive. A dark fantasy roguelike where every enemy is a meal — and every meal changes you.
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Steam players who put hours into Starving 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.
Abyss Ring
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Top pick for Starving Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Starving Shadows.
Survive, cook, and conquer!Cook monsters to stave off hunger in this roguelike as you reach the deepest floor. With 200+ equipment items and random dungeons, every run offers endless possibilities.
STEEL HEAVEN
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Second-strongest match for Starving Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
Hack, slash, and dismember the undead in this first-person melee action game. Fight through an ever-changing labyrinth where every wrong turn makes enemies stronger. Three brutal weapons, six upgrade paths, and a Doom-style kill-to-survive loop. Get lost, get punished.
Pass the Fear
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Third-strongest match for Starving Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
PASS THE FEAR is a roguelite bullet-hell shooter. A catastrophic Witch’s Disaster strikes without warning, and chaotic magic forms the ancient Wall of Storms. Its corruption spreads relentlessly across the island. As a demon hunter trapped within, you must find a way to escape before dawn breaks.
Unwanted Dungeon
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Ranked #4 for Starving Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Starving Shadows.
A dark fantasy survivorslike with classic ARPG essence: Deep builds, rare loot, NPC shops, shared storage, and a semi-procedural dungeon with bosses, events, and curses. Fast-paced roguelite action meets old-school dungeon crawling. Every lost run is a new idea. Welcome to Unwanted Dungeon!
Dungeons of Delveria
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Ranked #5 for Starving Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Starving Shadows.
A turn-based roguelike where you can shape the dungeon to your advantage. Discover terrain powers which help you to fight your enemies more efficiently.
EmbeRogue
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Ranked #6 for Starving Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Starving Shadows.
EmbeRogue is a real roguelike: turn-based, grid-based and boom-based, where everything can burn. Make your escape or tame your inner flames to defeat the FireLords.
Rangedrifter
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Ranked #7 for Starving Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Starving Shadows.
A 3D ASCII/Sprite roguelike set in a forbidden land. You travel a remote and shifting path, outsmart deadly traps, overcome monsters and wild animals, gather food and gear, find secrets, and try to reach the lost ancient kingdom lying dormant on the horizon.
Ad Iterum
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Ranked #8 for Starving Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Starving Shadows.
Ad Iterum is a turn-based top-down 2D roguelike set in a decaying, ever-shifting world. Flesh is fragile, but you can hack it. Enhance your body, embrace mutations, or form ancient blood pacts. Descend into the depths, scavenge what’s left of humanity, and crawl back...if you can. Kill. Die. Repeat.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Indie with Starving Shadows.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
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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Another title from SpoocleMacBoogle, the studio behind Starving Shadows. Shares Indie and RPG with Starving Shadows.
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Pyramid Curse
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Another title from SpoocleMacBoogle, the studio behind Starving Shadows. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
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Another title from SpoocleMacBoogle, the studio behind Starving Shadows. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
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A THOUSAND MOUTHS TO SCREAM
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Another title from SpoocleMacBoogle, the studio behind Starving Shadows. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
Psychological Body Horror visual novel in a space setting with different endings depending on your actions.
Please, Explode Me, Senpai!
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Another title from SpoocleMacBoogle, the studio behind Starving Shadows. Shares Indie with Starving Shadows.
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Frequently asked about Starving Shadows
- What games are most similar to Starving Shadows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starving Shadows are Abyss Ring, STEEL HEAVEN, Pass the Fear.
- Who developed Starving Shadows?
- Starving Shadows was developed by SpoocleMacBoogle.
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