Games like The Forbidden Arts
If The Forbidden Arts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster, Krut: The Mythic Wings and Ayna: Shattered Truth — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Forbidden Arts: The Forbidden Arts is an old-school action adventure platformer with a focus on discovery and exploration. You play as Phoenix, a young boy who seeks to master the element of fire in a grand adventure of ancient magic.
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Steam players who put hours into The Forbidden Arts 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.
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Forbidden Arts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
A classic hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania action game, it's time for revenge! Use your Beastmaster skills to unleash your inner beast, fight with your heart-devouring sword and end the threat to Arborea, you decide the ending.
Krut: The Mythic Wings
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Forbidden Arts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
Krut: The Mythic Wings is a fast-paced hack and slash, side-scrolling platformer based on a 2018 Thai CG animated feature-length film "Krut: The Himmaphan Warriors", following the adventure of a Garuda warrior on the enchanted Island, Himmaphan.
Ayna: Shattered Truth
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Forbidden Arts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
Explore this immersive 2.8D Metroidvania fantasy world to uncover its mysteries along with forgotten secrets. Slay monsters with visceral combat skills to survive. Uncover striking abilities and upgrade existing ones to overcome challenges. Befriend odd characters or demolish existing friendships.
GRIME
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Forbidden Arts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
REZ PLZ
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Ranked #5 for The Forbidden Arts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
A puzzle platformer with a new twist on co-op and single player gameplay. Solve puzzles, platforming challenges, and encounter dangerous monsters and traps that require you to KILL and resurrect your brother to advance! Death is just part of the adventure.
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Forbidden Arts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Forbidden Arts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.
Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Forbidden Arts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Forbidden Arts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under The Forbidden Arts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
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
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Priced ~67% under The Forbidden Arts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
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.
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Priced ~53% under The Forbidden Arts on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Forbidden Arts.
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
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Priced ~47% under The Forbidden Arts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
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
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Priced ~70% under The Forbidden Arts on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Forbidden Arts.
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
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Priced ~58% under The Forbidden Arts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
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 ~47% under The Forbidden Arts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forbidden Arts.
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 ~67% under The Forbidden Arts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
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 The Forbidden Arts.
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 The Forbidden Arts.
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 The Forbidden Arts.
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 The Forbidden Arts.
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 The Forbidden Arts.
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 The Forbidden Arts.
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 The Forbidden Arts.
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.
GRIME
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Forbidden Arts.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.
Frequently asked about The Forbidden Arts
- How much does The Forbidden Arts cost?
- The Forbidden Arts is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Forbidden Arts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Forbidden Arts are Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster, Krut: The Mythic Wings, Ayna: Shattered Truth.
- Who developed The Forbidden Arts?
- The Forbidden Arts was developed by Stingbot Games.
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