Games like Demon Peak
If Demon Peak is your kind of game, the closest matches are Castle In The Darkness, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and Cave Story+ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and retro. 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 Demon Peak: In Demon Peak, you play as the nameless warrior, trapped inside the depths of an unholy Mountain. Explore the mysterious and perilous enviroments, fight against a multitude of different enemies and gather magical abilities to overcome the Mountain's evil inhabitants.
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Castle In The Darkness
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Shares a retro mood with Demon Peak.
Top pick for Demon Peak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
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Second-strongest match for Demon Peak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Demon Peak.
Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Demon Peak.
Third-strongest match for Demon Peak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Aggelos
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Demon Peak.
Ranked #4 for Demon Peak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
MindSeize
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Demon Peak.
Ranked #5 for Demon Peak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
MindSeize is a 2D Metroidvania game set in a Sci-Fi-universe. Transfer your mind to a robot and rescue your beloved one!
Battle Princess Madelyn
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Demon Peak.
Ranked #6 for Demon Peak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Battle Princess Madelyn is a game that follows the journey of a young knight in training, Madelyn, and her ghostly pet dog, Fritzy. Join them as they set out on a journey to save her kingdom and her family from the clutches of an evil wizard!
Spaceport Hope
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Demon Peak.
Ranked #7 for Demon Peak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
A huge hand-crafted world packed with 13 unique bosses, a gripping story, and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is the ultimate test of gaming prowess.
Odallus: The Dark Call
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Demon Peak.
Ranked #8 for Demon Peak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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Metroidvania Maker
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Reviewers of Demon Peak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
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Reviewers of Demon Peak cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
Street Fighter V
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Reviewers of Demon Peak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Demon Peak.
Experience the intensity of head-to-head battles with Street Fighter® V! Choose from 16 iconic characters, then battle against friends online or offline with a robust variety of match options.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Demon Peak.
Reviewers of Demon Peak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Demon Peak.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection
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Shares a challenging mood with Demon Peak.
Reviewers of Demon Peak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Demon Peak.
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection brings together six classic titles in one game: Mega Man Zero 1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as Mega Man ZX and ZX Advent. The collection also features Z-Chaser, an exclusive new mode created just for this set of games.
Rogue Legacy
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Shares a challenging mood with Demon Peak.
Reviewers of Demon Peak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
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Shares a retro mood with Demon Peak.
Reviewers of Demon Peak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
NINJA GAIDEN 4
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Shares a challenging mood with Demon Peak.
Reviewers of Demon Peak cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Demon Peak.
The definitive ninja action-adventure franchise returns with NINJA GAIDEN 4! Embark on a cutting-edge adventure where legacy meets innovation in a high-octane blend of style and no-holds-barred combat.
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Frequently asked about Demon Peak
- Is Demon Peak free to play?
- Yes — Demon Peak is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Demon Peak?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Demon Peak are Castle In The Darkness, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, Cave Story+.
- Who developed Demon Peak?
- Demon Peak was developed by Kajak Games and published by Kajak Games, Kajaksi Game Collective.
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