Games like After Death
If After Death is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin, Lone Fungus and Cathedral — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, melancholic and nostalgic. 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 After Death: After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
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Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with After Death.
Top pick for After Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Ghoulboy is a retro-inspired action platformer. Explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures and devious monsters.
Lone Fungus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Second-strongest match for After Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!
Cathedral
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Third-strongest match for After Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
OUTBUDDIES DX
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Ranked #4 for After Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Omega Strike
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with After Death.
Ranked #5 for After Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Omega Strike is a metroidvania game with a vast, open ended world and multiple playable characters. Explore the world, learn new abilities, upgrade your weapons and defeat Doctor Omega and his mutant armies!
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Ranked #6 for After Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with After Death.
Ranked #7 for After Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Beholgar
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for After Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Beholgar is a classically styled metroidvania action adventure. Explore caverns, ancient woods, and deadly castles; battle creatures and solve ancient mysteries at the kingdom.
Reviewers mention these as similar to After Death
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Mega Man X Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with After Death.
Reviewers of After Death cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with After Death.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with After Death.
Reviewers of After Death cross-mention this title as a similar play.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Reviewers of After Death cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Altered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Reviewers of After Death cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with After Death.
Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.
Castle of Vania
WHY THIS
Reviewers of After Death cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with After Death.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below After Death at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under After Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Death.
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 ~64% under After Death on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under After Death on Steam right now. Shares Action with After Death.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under After Death on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under After Death on Steam right now. Shares Action with After Death.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under After Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Death.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under After Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Death.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under After Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Death.
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.
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 After Death.
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 Action and Adventure with After Death.
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 Action and Indie with After Death.
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 After Death.
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 After Death.
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 Action and Indie with After Death.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with After Death.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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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.
Lone Fungus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!
OUTBUDDIES DX
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After Death.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with After Death.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Beholgar
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with After Death.
Beholgar is a classically styled metroidvania action adventure. Explore caverns, ancient woods, and deadly castles; battle creatures and solve ancient mysteries at the kingdom.
Frequently asked about After Death
- Is After Death verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — After Death is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does After Death cost?
- After Death is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to After Death?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside After Death are Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin, Lone Fungus, Cathedral.
- Who developed After Death?
- After Death was developed by After Death Team.
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