Games like Penance
If Penance is your kind of game, the closest matches are FukTopia 5, Princess Shall Prevail and Rift Diver — 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 Penance: A top-down action game about a crusader spending his final hours paying for the sins that ravaged everything he cherished. Fight through waves of powerful, high ranking imperial soldiers, with a Flame Meter that drains constantly and never refills.
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Steam players who put hours into Penance 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.
FukTopia 5
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Top pick for Penance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
FukTopia 5 is a frantic post apocalyptic Top Down game.
Princess Shall Prevail
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Second-strongest match for Penance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
Princess Shall Prevail is a pseudo 8-bit, top-down hack-and-slash game that takes heavy influence from the genre’s third-person contemporaries and some influence from scrolling shoot-em-ups. Like how many approach the genres, players will be dodging and timing their attacks accordingly.
Rift Diver
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Third-strongest match for Penance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Penance.
Rift Diver is a punishing 2D hack and slash with souls-like elements. As the "Unforgiven", descend into the chaotic Below to slay the Reaper! Master the dash, upgrade your unique class, and crush relentless swarms across a 4-level campaign or the Endless Dungeon.
Soul of the Dungeon
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Ranked #4 for Penance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Penance.
A wave-based rogue-lite action game! Enter the dark dungeon, fight hordes of enemies, collect gold, upgrade your skills, and survive. Every wave is harder, every battle makes you stronger.
The Arena Pit
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Ranked #5 for Penance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Penance.
Ready for a blend of RPG and Tower Defense in a 2D rogue-lite game? Enter The Arena Pit! Choose your hero, wield powerful weapons and skills. Strategize your moves in the arena, setting traps, obstacles, and towers against hordes of monsters in the epic battle of good versus evil!
Shing!
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Ranked #6 for Penance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Anomaly Agent
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Ranked #7 for Penance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-adventure featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
Bleak Sword DX
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Ranked #8 for Penance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Penance.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Penance.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Penance.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Penance.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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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.
Anomaly Agent
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-adventure featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
Bleak Sword DX
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Penance.
Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.
Frequently asked about Penance
- What games are most similar to Penance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Penance are FukTopia 5, Princess Shall Prevail, Rift Diver.
- Who developed Penance?
- Penance was developed by Ardor Studios.
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 Penance.
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