Games like Blasphemous
If Blasphemous is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Faith, Salt and Sanctuary and Death's Gambit: Afterlife — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful pixel art, intricate lore and symbolism and precise combat mechanics. 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 →Blasphemous is a 2019 action-adventure indie game set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. The game combines 2D platforming with skilled hack-and-slash combat in a non-linear, Metroidvania-style structure where players explore, collect lore, and upgrade abilities. Checkpoint-based progress supports the challenging experience, while combat incorporates punishing consequences for failure. Reviewers highlight beautiful pixel art, intricate lore and symbolism, and precise combat mechanics as major appeals. Players describe the atmosphere as dark and immersive. The game is priced at $24.99 USD and runs verified on Steam Deck. It holds a 90% positive rating from over 18,000 Steam reviews.
About Blasphemous: 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.
Players who liked Blasphemous also play
Steam players who put hours into Blasphemous 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.
The Last Faith
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Top pick for Blasphemous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Second-strongest match for Blasphemous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
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.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Third-strongest match for Blasphemous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
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.
Dark Devotion
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Ranked #4 for Blasphemous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
Skelethrone: The Prey
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Ranked #5 for Blasphemous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blasphemous.
This game is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls. Skelethrone: The Prey is a free prequel to the main game, setting the stage for the events that will unfold throughout Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona campaign.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Ranked #6 for Blasphemous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
WHY THIS
Shares non linear exploration and a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Ranked #7 for Blasphemous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blasphemous.
Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Shares lore collection and a challenging mood with Blasphemous.
Ranked #8 for Blasphemous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Blasphemous
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Blasphemous.
Reviewers of Blasphemous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Blasphemous.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Blasphemous.
Reviewers of Blasphemous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
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.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Blasphemous.
Reviewers of Blasphemous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Reviewers of Blasphemous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
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.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Blasphemous.
Reviewers of Blasphemous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Blasphemous.
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!
The Last Faith
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Reviewers of Blasphemous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
Aeterna Noctis
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Blasphemous.
Reviewers of Blasphemous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
Dark Devotion
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Reviewers of Blasphemous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blasphemous at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Blasphemous on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blasphemous.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Blasphemous on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Blasphemous on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blasphemous.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Blasphemous on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Blasphemous on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blasphemous.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Blasphemous.
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 Blasphemous.
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 Blasphemous.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Blasphemous.
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 Blasphemous.
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 Blasphemous.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blasphemous.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from The Game Kitchen
Other recommendable Steam games by The Game Kitchen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Another title from The Game Kitchen, the studio behind Blasphemous. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blasphemous.
Another title from The Game Kitchen, the studio behind Blasphemous. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
The Last Door - Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from The Game Kitchen, the studio behind Blasphemous. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blasphemous.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from The Game Kitchen, the studio behind Blasphemous. Shares Adventure with Blasphemous.
In Season 2 of The Last Door, the search for his missing client will bring psychiatrist John Wakefield deeper into a conspiracy of darkness and closer to the heart of madness than ever before.
The Stone of Madness
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Another title from The Game Kitchen, the studio behind Blasphemous. Shares Adventure with Blasphemous.
The Stone of Madness is a real-time tactical stealth game set in an 18th-century Spanish Monastery. Five prisoners pool their skills and resources to face their phobias, stave off insanity, uncover the mysteries of the Monastery, and find a way to escape.
All On Board!
WHY THIS
Another title from The Game Kitchen, the studio behind Blasphemous. Shares Indie with Blasphemous.
Built for board game lovers, All On Board! brings back the magic of game nights to VR. Enjoy adapted versions of your favorite titles with friends, lifelike physics, and thoughtful design that make every match feel real, like gathering around a table wherever you are.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
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.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
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.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
WHY THIS
Shares non linear exploration and a dark mood with Blasphemous.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Blasphemous.
Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Shares lore collection and a challenging mood with Blasphemous.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blasphemous.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Frequently asked about Blasphemous
- Is Blasphemous verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Blasphemous 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 Blasphemous cost?
- Blasphemous is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blasphemous?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blasphemous are The Last Faith, Salt and Sanctuary, Death's Gambit: Afterlife.
- Who developed Blasphemous?
- Blasphemous was developed by The Game Kitchen and published by Team17.
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