Games like Knell
If Knell is your kind of game, the closest matches are ERLIK, Warriors of the End and Chrome Survivor — 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 Knell: A gothic top-down survivor-roguelite. Attack, weave and dodge through undead hordes while picking level-up cards to build your character, then fight a boss at the end of each map. Nine characters, dodge-only defense, run-based roguelite progression.
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Steam players who put hours into Knell 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.
ERLIK
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Top pick for Knell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
A Turkic folk-horror bullet-heaven roguelite. Every run drifts between two gods; feed Erlik's corruption for savage power and lifesteal, or rise toward Tengri's light for shields and renewal. Every weapon evolves down two opposed paths. Survive the Long Night.
Warriors of the End
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Second-strongest match for Knell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
Warriors of the End is a fast-paced tower-defense horde-battler roguelike. Defend the Princess against enemy hordes by strategically positioning and upgrading your towers, customize unique characters with deadly weapons and spells, discover mindblowing synergies and create game-breaking builds!
Chrome Survivor
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Third-strongest match for Knell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
In this bullet heaven roguelite combine weapons into powerful evolutions, collect items to enhance your runs, equip and craft powerful cybernetic augments that change the way you play. Can you complete a 9 modded nightmare difficulty run and become John Cyberpunk?
Payback Protocol
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Ranked #4 for Knell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
Annihilate alien armies, craft devastating builds and traverse hostile biomes in this fast-paced action roguelite! Choose from a roster of vengeful combat robots, each with unique strengths and abilities, and survive relentless alien hordes as you avenge the fall of humanity.
Castleborne Survivors
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Ranked #5 for Knell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
A survivors-like game with side-scrolling action combat. Slash, dodge, and mow down endless monsters in a gothic horror castle. Upgrade with every choice, snowball out of control, and survive until the very end.
Winnie-the-Pooh Redux: Halloween Survivors
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Ranked #6 for Knell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
Heal instead of harm in this wholesome Halloween bullet heaven! Play as 9 magical versions of Pooh, recruit a Ghost Army, collect Candy Corn, upgrade your abilities, and restore peace to the Hundred Acre Wood.
Loot Frog
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Ranked #7 for Knell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
Loot Frog is an incremental action bullet hell about breaking pots, collecting gems, and fighting an evil cult. Upgrade your gear, unlock new abilities, explore diverse biomes, and push deeper into increasingly chaotic battles.
Voxie Survivor
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Ranked #8 for Knell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
Break monster swarms, lockdown rescue missions, and crush apex bosses as you weave through deep story driven chaos. Welcome to a bullet heaven roguelite where survival demands strategy. Master the chaos, it takes a real Voxie Survivor to conquer all!
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 Knell.
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 and Indie with Knell.
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. Shares Indie with Knell.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Knell.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Knell.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Knell.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Knell
- What games are most similar to Knell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Knell are ERLIK, Warriors of the End, Chrome Survivor.
- Who developed Knell?
- Knell was developed by Lothric Systems S.R.L..
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 Knell.
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