Games like Zanshin
If Zanshin is your kind of game, the closest matches are Diary of Defender, Monster Collector and Fastigium: Dead End — 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 Zanshin: Slice and dice! Zanshin is a sword fighting simulator, where you can test yourself in challenging sword fights. Try your agility, reaction, speed. Move, block and strike your enemies down and then slice them into thousand pieces. Fight with hundred waves of enemies and survive as long as you can.
Players who liked Zanshin also play
Steam players who put hours into Zanshin 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.
Diary of Defender
WHY THIS
Top pick for Zanshin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Into the game, you will become a defender, return to the age of war, defense the enemy wave of attack.
Monster Collector
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Zanshin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Monster Collector is a physics based VR melee combat game. You can fight all kinds of unique monsters in the sandbox. Dragons, Demons, Mythological Creatures. Each creature can bring you different experience. You can tear them apart, slice them to half.
Fastigium: Dead End
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Zanshin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Fastigium: Dead End is a VR game (FPS) designed by ifgames studio. Fastigium: Dead End is the 2nd edition of , it provides 3 huge maps which players could move freely. The further you explore, the more fatal dangers you will face to. Take your weapon! Fight your way out!
KungFu Town VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Zanshin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
KungFu Town VR is a simulation KungFu game based on character AI and character skeleton creation. In the game you can attack on other people by fist, pick up weapons, AI characters can be crushed, cut, beheaded and so on.
Zombie City
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Zanshin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse? We've done the research and want to make sure you're prepared. Fought to the end. Requires the virtual reality headset.
The SoulKeeper VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Zanshin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Immerse yourself in the dark world of The SoulKeeper® universe and unravel the plots of different playable characters as you slash and cast through daunting challenges and towering enemies in an epic VR adventure. Requires VR Headset (HTC VIVE or Oculus Rift)
Flinch
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Zanshin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Flinch is a VR horror game about terrifying yourself, but more importantly your friends and loved ones. You're racing against time and trying to keep your cool. Flinch monitors your behaviors and can detect when you jerk or move suddenly if you get frightened. Eeek!
Coaster of Carnage VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Zanshin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Zanshin.
Coaster of Carnage VR is a short (about 8 minutes) horror genre rollercoaster experience. Guts and gore, clowns and cadavers, blood and bones, spiders and a cohort of Satans rejects! Great for scaring friends and family! Not intended for the faint of heart.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Zanshin at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Zanshin on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
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 ~50% under Zanshin on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Zanshin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zanshin.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Zanshin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zanshin.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Zanshin on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zanshin.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zanshin on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zanshin on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Zanshin on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zanshin.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Meteor 60 Seconds!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
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.
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Zanshin.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Rec Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
Fishing Planet
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Sports and Simulation with Zanshin.
Fishing Planet® is a free-to-play and highly realistic first-person online multiplayer fishing simulator. Developed by avid fishing enthusiasts to bring you the full thrill of actual angling on your PC.
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Frequently asked about Zanshin
- How much does Zanshin cost?
- Zanshin is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Zanshin?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zanshin are Diary of Defender, Monster Collector, Fastigium: Dead End.
- Who developed Zanshin?
- Zanshin was developed by Seven Wolves Studio.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Zanshin.
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