Steam Deck games like Konrad the Rocket
Below are 8 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Konrad the Rocket (8 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
- 1
Hollow Knight
Deck Verified alternative to Konrad the Rocket — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Konrad the Rocket.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
- 2
Cuphead
Deck Verified alternative to Konrad the Rocket — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Konrad the Rocket.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Spelunky 2
Deck Verified alternative to Konrad the Rocket — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Konrad the Rocket.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
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Katana ZERO
Deck Verified alternative to Konrad the Rocket — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Konrad the Rocket.
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
- 5
Salt and Sanctuary
Deck Verified alternative to Konrad the Rocket — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Konrad the Rocket.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Deck Verified alternative to Konrad the Rocket — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Konrad the Rocket.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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Blasphemous
Deck Verified alternative to Konrad the Rocket — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Konrad the Rocket.
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.
- 8
The Messenger
Deck Verified alternative to Konrad the Rocket — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Konrad the Rocket.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.