Games like Sakura Shiren
If Sakura Shiren is your kind of game, the closest matches are GrindFall, Void Strike and Neon Breaker: Endless Arcade — 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 Sakura Shiren: Hold out against endless waves of anime yokai with up to 7 friends. Draft run-changing blossom buffs between waves, spend petals on weapons and upgrades, and face 25 hand-drawn bosses that scale to your squad.
Players who liked Sakura Shiren also play
Steam players who put hours into Sakura Shiren 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.
GrindFall
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Top pick for Sakura Shiren fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sakura Shiren.
A thrilling Co-op Action Roguelite for 1-4 players! Play as mischievous ghosts, create insane weapon synergies, catch humans, and turn them into pumpkins. Deliver your harvest to the crypt, expand the map, and unleash vibrant chaos in this Bullet Heaven!
Void Strike
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Second-strongest match for Sakura Shiren fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sakura Shiren.
Shred endless waves of hostile spaceships in a 1-bit arcade survival roguelite. Build absurd weapon combos, unlock pilots, upgrade your fighter, and survive escalating dogfights against swarms, elite enemies, and colossal bosses.
Neon Breaker: Endless Arcade
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Third-strongest match for Sakura Shiren fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sakura Shiren.
Blast your way onto the leaderboards in a twin-stick arcade shooter built around rapid destruction, evasion, kill combos and overwhelming firepower. Fight escalating fleets, merge power-ups and face 20+ unique bosses solo or in co-op. Play roguelike Anomaly runs that stack risk-reward mutations.
Dead Broke
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Ranked #4 for Sakura Shiren fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sakura Shiren.
An arena roguelite where money is your life, your ammo, and your currency. Shoot, gamble, and survive in a casino from hell: every bullet costs, every coin saves you. 13 characters, 5 endings, and local co-op. The House always wins... until you stop owing it.
Scavenger Survivors
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Ranked #5 for Sakura Shiren fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sakura Shiren.
The machines already won. Now, you scavenge! In this 1-4 player top-down roguelite/survivors hybrid, play as fat scavengers hauling loot from the ruins of the world. Grab and throw anything that isn't bolted down, cram it into your armored RIG, and survive the robot swarm until extraction.
Creator's Fall
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Ranked #6 for Sakura Shiren fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sakura Shiren.
Creator’s Fall is an action roguelike with various classes, where you can choose between different paths. The goal is to reach and defeat the final boss at the end of the path. Levels are dynamically generated and feature different biomes. You can choose an upgrade after each level up.
Space Show edition 17
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Ranked #7 for Sakura Shiren fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sakura Shiren.
Space Show is an explosive space shoot’em up blending fast-paced arcade action with roguelite progression. Destroy waves of asteroids, battle enemy fleets, and defend Earth in an endless war where only survival… and glory matter!
Neon Armada - Solar Storm
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Ranked #8 for Sakura Shiren fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sakura Shiren.
A top-down arena roguelite you can learn in one wave and spend a hundred hours mastering. Waves close in from every edge; the shop between them decides what you become. 32 ships, 28 weapons, 115 mods to combine — then endless mode, where the caps come off.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sakura Shiren.
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 Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sakura Shiren.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sakura Shiren.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sakura Shiren.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sakura Shiren.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sakura Shiren.
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.
![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 Sakura Shiren
- Does Sakura Shiren have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Sakura Shiren supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Sakura Shiren?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sakura Shiren are GrindFall, Void Strike, Neon Breaker: Endless Arcade.
- Who developed Sakura Shiren?
- Sakura Shiren was developed by Jeremy Caudill.
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 Sakura Shiren.
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