Games like Nine Parchments
If Nine Parchments is your kind of game, the closest matches are Smells Like Burnt Rubber, Otherlights and Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chaotic multiplayer experience, tactical positioning matters and challenging. 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 →Nine Parchments is a 2017 action RPG from Frozenbyte that combines twin-stick shooting with elemental magic spell-casting combos. Players progress through procedurally generated levels as wizards attempting to collect nine parchments in a fantasy setting, with cooperative-play supporting multiple players online. The game enables friendly fire, making tactical positioning matters during encounters. Reviewers describe the experience as a chaotic multiplayer affair where competitive tension emerges naturally from the mechanics, and players often highlight the art style as beautiful and whimsical. The game is priced at $19.99 USD and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. According to Steam, approximately 79% of the 1,356 reviews are positive.
About Nine Parchments: Nine Parchments is a co-operative blast'em up game of magic mayhem from Frozenbyte, creators of the Trine series!
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Smells Like Burnt Rubber
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Top pick for Nine Parchments fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Get ready for a fast-paced, adrenaline-fueled racing experience with Smells Like Burnt Rubber. Choose your car, customize it, and hit the track in this intense arcade-style game. Play with up to 4 friends in Splitscreen or join the Online Multiplayer. Are you ready to burn some rubber?
Otherlights
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nine Parchments fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Otherlights is an action-RPG game with roguelike tendencies designed for 1 to 4 players. In this sunless world, unlock many heroes and develop their destinies to try to access the solar fragment guarded by the powerful Exharques.
Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso
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Third-strongest match for Nine Parchments fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso is a fantasy-themed action RPG adventure game about vanquishing an ancient threat. Recruit allies, find powerful items, develop your character and interact with the game world and its inhabitants to archieve your goals.
Superior Wizards
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Ranked #4 for Nine Parchments fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Explore the world, learn new spells, bend spells around corners and get spell upgrades in the adventure of a young wizard roaming the world. Become a wizard for hire and begin your journey.
Shwip
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Ranked #5 for Nine Parchments fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Dominate global leaderboards as you face an unrelenting geometric force. Shwip blends twin-stick arcade action with tight controls, jaw-dropping pixel destruction, and devastating weapons and abilities. Evade, outlast, and play with style in four game modes, both solo and local multiplayer.
HELLFRONT: HONEYMOON
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Shares twin stick shooting and a competitive mood with Nine Parchments.
Ranked #6 for Nine Parchments fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
HELLFRONT is an intense top-down shooter. Conquer ground, build a base, and command your troops in battle! Play PvP or beat the campaign co-op or solo.
Eon Altar
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Ranked #7 for Nine Parchments fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
A role-playing game like no other. Your smartphone is your character! Eon Altar brings modern technology to the social experience of couch co-op gaming. Voice your character, choose which secrets to keep and what lies to tell. Gather your friends, order a pizza and descend to the depths of Eon Altar!
Undercrewed
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Ranked #8 for Nine Parchments fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Grab your friends and build and fly your own customisable spaceship. With local and online co-op customise your spacecraft with a wide variety of components, you must work together to figure out the best way to survive your journey!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Nine Parchments
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Magicka
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Reviewers of Nine Parchments cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.
NeuroVoider
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Shares twin stick shooting with Nine Parchments.
Reviewers of Nine Parchments cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
Trine 2: Complete Story
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Reviewers of Nine Parchments cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Crawl
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Shares a competitive mood with Nine Parchments.
Reviewers of Nine Parchments cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!
Moon Hunters
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Reviewers of Nine Parchments cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Nine Parchments.
Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?
Enter the Gungeon
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Shares a challenging mood with Nine Parchments.
Reviewers of Nine Parchments cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
The Binding of Isaac
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Shares a challenging mood with Nine Parchments.
Reviewers of Nine Parchments cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Shares a challenging mood with Nine Parchments.
Reviewers of Nine Parchments cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nine Parchments at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Nine Parchments on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Nine Parchments on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Nine Parchments on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Nine Parchments on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Nine Parchments on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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 with Nine Parchments.
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 with Nine Parchments.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Action with Nine Parchments.
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 Nine Parchments.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Frozenbyte
Other recommendable Steam games by Frozenbyte, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Another title from Frozenbyte, the studio behind Nine Parchments. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Trine Enchanted Edition
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Another title from Frozenbyte, the studio behind Nine Parchments. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
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Another title from Frozenbyte, the studio behind Nine Parchments. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
The best-selling Trine series returns to the magic of 2.5D! Join three iconic heroes as they set off on a quest through fantastical fairytale landscapes to save the world from the Nightmare Prince’s shadows.
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
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Another title from Frozenbyte, the studio behind Nine Parchments. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is a platforming game of action, puzzles and adventure, and the sequel to the award winning Trine and Trine 2. Reunite with the three heroes in an all-new adventure, now for the first time in full 3D!
Starbase
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Shares a challenging mood with Nine Parchments.
Another title from Frozenbyte, the studio behind Nine Parchments. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy
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Another title from Frozenbyte, the studio behind Nine Parchments. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!
Shadowgrounds
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Another title from Frozenbyte, the studio behind Nine Parchments. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...
Shadwen
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Shares a challenging mood with Nine Parchments.
Another title from Frozenbyte, the studio behind Nine Parchments. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Shadwen is a 3rd person stealth-action game where the only rule is to remain unseen. Stay hidden - or the ruthless guards will kill you on sight!
Frequently asked about Nine Parchments
- Does Nine Parchments run on Steam Deck?
- Nine Parchments is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Nine Parchments cost?
- Nine Parchments is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Nine Parchments have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Nine Parchments supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Nine Parchments?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nine Parchments are Smells Like Burnt Rubber, Otherlights, Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso.
- Who developed Nine Parchments?
- Nine Parchments was developed by Frozenbyte.
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