Games like Cendric
If Cendric is your kind of game, the closest matches are Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona, Death's Gambit: Afterlife and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative 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 Cendric: Follow the story of a young mage into the dangerous and fascinating world of Admantris. Master the elements, join one of three factions, solve puzzles, defeat bosses and discover dark secrets.
Players who liked Cendric also play
Steam players who put hours into Cendric 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.
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cendric.
Top pick for Cendric fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Cendric.
Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cendric fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Cendric.
Third-strongest match for Cendric fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cendric.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
Minoria
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cendric fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cendric.
Ranked #5 for Cendric fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Unbound: Worlds Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cendric.
Ranked #6 for Cendric fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cendric.
Ranked #8 for Cendric fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cendric at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cendric on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cendric.
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 Cendric on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Cendric.
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 Cendric on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cendric.
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 Cendric on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cendric.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cendric on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cendric on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cendric.
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 Cendric on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Cendric.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cendric on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cendric.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 with Cendric.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cendric.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cendric.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cendric.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cendric.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Cendric.
Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Minoria
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cendric.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Unbound: Worlds Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cendric.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cendric.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cendric.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
Frequently asked about Cendric
- How much does Cendric cost?
- Cendric is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cendric?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cendric are Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona, Death's Gambit: Afterlife, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
- Who developed Cendric?
- Cendric was developed by Ironbell.
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