Games like Shining Plume
If Shining Plume is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Monsters' History Book, Ritual on the Eve 前夜祭 and WhiteLily 1：丽丽公主 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emotional, nostalgic 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 Shining Plume: Shining Plume is a tale filled with adventure, joy, sorrow, friendship and love, from Warfare Studios (Vagrant Hearts, Valiant: Resurrection).
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The Monsters' History Book
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Shining Plume.
Top pick for Shining Plume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
Beyond horrible, odd and black feelings, while there is a sincere relationship.However,The horrors more terrible than all these, become increasingly clear as the two linger around in the school. The nervous history of the bizarre deaths replays again as the history book be opened.
Ritual on the Eve 前夜祭
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shining Plume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
学园祭的前夜，据说时不时会出现名为【爱丽丝幻境】的怪异现象，过去的死者在虚假的幻境中， 向生者叙述怨念，企图寻求解脱，亦或者是报复。
WhiteLily 1：丽丽公主
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an emotional mood with Shining Plume.
Third-strongest match for Shining Plume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
男主角君彦是一名年轻的圣骑士，在一次返程归来时，他碰巧路过被恶魔入侵后的爱露村，同时巧遇了被恶魔追赶的丽丽。随着剧情的深入，君彦越来越意识到丽丽和整件事情的密切联系，而和丽丽在迷失小镇的冒险中，他逐渐明白了整件事情的始终，并决心一定要保护好丽丽（本游戏剧情有剧毒）。
Undefeated
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shining Plume.
Ranked #5 for Shining Plume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
16-bit RPG magic is back! Can you stop the Wastelands from spreading and overtaking the world? Play as Marcus, Bastien and Fela, 3 army conscripts with little liking for their new life, yet who find themselves engulfed in a mystery that could very well cause the demise of their nation.
Last Heroes 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shining Plume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
Enjoy another classic 16-bit RPG from Warfare Studios of Vagrant Hearts, Ashes of Immortality and Valiant fame, and embark on a quest with Amelia and Roland as they make new friends, experience dreams, and discover their destiny.
7 Days in Dream 光尘
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shining Plume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
梦一场，爱一生 梦与现实间的7天里，真相与隐情逐渐浮出水面，再一次鼓起勇气拥抱爱！
吞食孔明传 Tunshi Kongming Legends
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a nostalgic mood with Shining Plume.
Ranked #8 for Shining Plume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
吞食孔明传是一款传统的回合制角色扮演独立游戏，讲述了东汉末年的战乱之中，诸葛孔明与刘关张三人从桃园结义开始至一统天下的传奇故事。八个章节的正统剧本，两百位武将登场，可加入玩家阵营突破五十名，二周目开启，百种天赋技能及成就待解锁。
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shining Plume at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shining Plume on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Shining Plume.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shining Plume on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Shining Plume.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shining Plume on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shining Plume on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Shining Plume.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Shining Plume on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shining Plume on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shining Plume.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Shining Plume on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shining Plume.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shining Plume on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Shining Plume.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shining Plume.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shining Plume.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shining Plume.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shining Plume.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shining Plume.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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More from Warfare Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Warfare Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Storm Of Spears RPG
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with Shining Plume.
Another title from Warfare Studios, the studio behind Shining Plume. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
Prepare for an epic 10 hour adventure in the world of Galager. Sura, the world's most sought-after mercenary, leads a band of sell-swords in a last-ditch effort to save the world. Prepare for the Storm of Spears!
Zoop! - Hunter's Grimm
WHY THIS
Another title from Warfare Studios, the studio behind Shining Plume. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
For Sarai and Nicholas, life is simple: search for monsters, kill the monsters, get the reward, and get frosty chocolate milkshakes.
Subterra
WHY THIS
Another title from Warfare Studios, the studio behind Shining Plume. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
An epic 10 hour adventure in the underworld of Subterra. Earth is but a memory and the mighty Devordor casts a shadow of evil over all that remains. Can you reclaim your home? Can you escape Subterra?
Last Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Shining Plume.
Another title from Warfare Studios, the studio behind Shining Plume. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
Enjoy another classic 16-bit RPG from Warfare Studios of Vagrant Hearts, Ashes of Immortality and Valiant fame, and embark on a quest with Viktor as he makes new friends, experiences dreams, and discovers his destiny.
Vagrant Hearts
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an emotional mood with Shining Plume.
Another title from Warfare Studios, the studio behind Shining Plume. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
Enjoy pure 16-bit RPG goodness! Scarllet and Beatrice are two close sisters. One of them has the gift of healing, the more she knows about her gift the more she realizes how big her responsibility is. Features party splitting, beautiful artworks and an intricate storyline.
Vagrant Hearts 2
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with Shining Plume.
Another title from Warfare Studios, the studio behind Shining Plume. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
The heroes are back! This is the direct sequel to the 16-bit style RPG hit "Vagrant Hearts"! Find out what happens to Scarllet and her friends in this exciting adventure full of twists and epicness.
Ashes of Immortality
WHY THIS
Another title from Warfare Studios, the studio behind Shining Plume. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
Vampires vs Werewolves vs Hunters... Guess which group you're playing with? Find out in this exciting 16-bit style RPG full of twists and colorful characters!
Ashes of Immortality II
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with Shining Plume.
Another title from Warfare Studios, the studio behind Shining Plume. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shining Plume.
A whole new side to the Ashes of Immortality saga! Defeat your enemies and complete sidequests in this compelling 16-bit saga inspired by Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.
Frequently asked about Shining Plume
- How much does Shining Plume cost?
- Shining Plume is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shining Plume?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shining Plume are The Monsters' History Book, Ritual on the Eve 前夜祭, WhiteLily 1：丽丽公主.
- Who developed Shining Plume?
- Shining Plume was developed by Warfare Studios.
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