Games like Shadow Runner
If Shadow Runner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Warriors of the End, Koboo: The Tree Spirit and Undelve — 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 Shadow Runner: A fast, brutal katana action-roguelike. Chain combos, dive-cancel through 23 nightmare foes across 12 descending chapters. Curses, loot, and endless mode reshape every run. One blade. No retreat.
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Steam players who put hours into Shadow Runner 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.
Warriors of the End
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shadow Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
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!
Koboo: The Tree Spirit
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shadow Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
Koboo is a fast paced action rogue-lite platformer where you battle against towering hunters as a small tree spirit by attacking their weak points. Forge powerful synergies, explore the Ancient Forest's branching paths, fish, catch bugs and garden to rebuild your home!
Undelve
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shadow Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
A 2D Sci-fi Action Looter Shooter. Collect items and decide which to scrap for ammo while exploring a vast cave system, blowing up the very tunnels spiders use to reach you.
Self Simulated
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Ranked #4 for Shadow Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
Self Simulated is a fast-paced precision platformer about a robotic copy of yourself, waking up with no memory of a severe accident. Dash, dodge, and double jump through 100+ handcrafted levels, reboot instantly on every fail, and uncover the truth behind your past.
Void Reaver
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shadow Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
Organize. Optimize. Obliterate. Welcome to a sci-fi bullet heaven where your inventory is your ultimate weapon. Arrange your backpack to create explosive synergies with 300+ items to unlock, dedicated skill trees and a high-octane soundtrack to blast through unrelenting waves of enemies !
Mexican Ninja
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Ranked #6 for Shadow Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
Become the Mexican Ninja and fight to take back Nuevo Tokyo, where Narcos and Yakuzas have fused into the ruthless Narkuzas. Master slick combos, unleash outrageous Mexican Jutsus and craft deadly builds in this fast, chaotic 2.5D roguelike beat ’em up.
Elsie
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shadow Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
Elsie is a technicolour, hyperkinetic, rogue-like action-platformer filled with procedurally generated levels, an army of robots to blast through, and a wide scope of items & weaponry to make each run unique. Master countless magitek weapons and abilities in order to embrace the chaos.
Army of Survivors
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Ranked #8 for Shadow Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
Wage war against massive hordes of orcs, undead and demons in this survival roguelite. Upgrade and combine epic weapons and talents. Enlist an army to fight alongside you. Embrace the chaos of the battlefield!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Runner.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Shadow Runner
- What games are most similar to Shadow Runner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow Runner are Warriors of the End, Koboo: The Tree Spirit, Undelve.
- Who developed Shadow Runner?
- Shadow Runner was developed by ArcadeDeck.
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 Shadow Runner.
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