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Games like Dead Rose

If Dead Rose is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monochrome Nemesis, The One Who Speaks Worm Tongue and Book of Demons — 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.

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About Dead Rose: Hand-crafted 2D pixel art action-adventure. Play as Lucky, a skeleton lost in the world of spirits, and set out in search of Rose through a dark and magical world that blends Metroidvania exploration with Zelda-like adventure.

2027ActionIndieAdventureRPGWindows · macOSby Human World Studio
Dead Rose — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Dead Rose 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.

  1. Monochrome Nemesis

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dead Rose fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    Monochrome Nemesis: A retro die and retry game in black and white pixel art. Face a powerful knight who grows stronger with each duel. For extreme challenge enthusiasts. Developed on Godot by an independent developer.

    2025ActionIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The One Who Speaks Worm Tongue

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dead Rose fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    Go on an adventure in a seemingly innocent fantasy world with a dark secret. Battle tricky foes, conquer powerful bosses, and make friends, on your quest to banish the One Who Speaks Worm Tongue, in this top down action adventure RPG.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Book of Demons

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dead Rose fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    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!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Hunt the Night

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dead Rose fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    Hunt the Night is a retro-style action-RPG that blends fast, skillful combat with dark fantasy lore. Play as Vesper, a member of the Stalkers, and traverse the ruined world of Medhram on a mission to save humanity from a deadly cycle of annihilation.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Death's Door

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dead Rose fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    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.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. VOIN

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dead Rose fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    Crafted by a solo developer, VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash. Cleave through hordes of enemies in fast-paced combat. Explore dark fantasy realms filled with secrets and dangers. Discover powerful gear and weapons, and face menacing bosses in your quest to cleanse a broken world.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Warhammer: Chaosbane

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dead Rose fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rose.

    In a world ravaged by war and dominated by magic, you must rise up to face the Chaos hordes. Playing solo or with up to four players in local or online co-op, choose a hero from four character classes and prepare for epic battles wielding some of the most powerful artefacts of the Old World.

    2019ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dead Rose fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    Carve your path in this Hack’n’Slash free from class boundaries. Purify a world shattered by corruption, and uncover the grim secrets and forgotten horrors lurking in the shadows of this forsaken land as you rise in Power. Your Inner aspect beckons—will you answer?

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rose.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Rose.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Rose.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Rose.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Rose.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Rose.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Rose.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dead Rose

What games are most similar to Dead Rose?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Rose are Monochrome Nemesis, The One Who Speaks Worm Tongue, Book of Demons.
Who developed Dead Rose?
Dead Rose was developed by Human World Studio and published by HumanWorld.

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 Dead Rose.

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