Games like SCARLET NEXUS
If SCARLET NEXUS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tales of ARISE, DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT and Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and epic. 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 →Scarlet Nexus is a 2021 action RPG set in a Brain Punk future where technology intersects with psychic abilities. Players choose between two elite psionics, each navigating their own campaign route that reveals different truths about the world. The challenging combat emphasizes just-dodge timing and synergistic psychic powers that combine with teammates' abilities. A bond system unlocks character stories and additional capabilities as relationships deepen. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, contemplative, epic, and mysterious, with reviewers highlighting how the soundtrack enhances immersion and the mystery-driven storytelling keeps the narrative unpredictable. The game offers substantial length with streamlined side quests, and runs verified on Steam Deck. Current pricing sits at $14.39 USD, supported by a 78 Metacritic score and an 86% positive rating from over 5,200 Steam reviews.
About SCARLET NEXUS: Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.
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Tales of ARISE
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Shares an epic mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Top pick for SCARLET NEXUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
300 years of tyranny. A mysterious mask. Lost pain and memories. Wield the Blazing Sword and join a mysterious, untouchable girl to fight your oppressors. Experience a tale of liberation, featuring characters with next-gen graphical expressiveness!
DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT
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Shares an epic mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Second-strongest match for SCARLET NEXUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
The Dragon Ball RPG of your dreams! For the first time, you can play the rest of the story. Step into the universe of Dragon Ball Z in all its iconic glory and become the hero you were always meant to be!
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Third-strongest match for SCARLET NEXUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
Shiness is an Action-RPG developed by indie development studio Enigami, which will let you travel in a captivating universe doomed to destruction ever since the fragmentation of the planet Mahera...
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Ranked #4 for SCARLET NEXUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
The spriggan known as Van Arkride, an underground professional, accepts any job, acting as detective, negotiator, or bounty hunter. Dive into the Trails series' latest chapter with intense combat, beautiful visuals, and a new alignment system in Calvard!
~Azur Ring~virgin and slave's phylacteries
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Ranked #5 for SCARLET NEXUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
New Metroidvania + RPG adventure game. Legendary gear! Unique set, a large number of magical equipment to provide you with unlimited possibilities to equip build. Gorgeous and fluent act combo system, give you the operating space to challenge the limit!
The Goracle
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Ranked #6 for SCARLET NEXUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
Classic RPG Dungeon Crawler. Save the kingdom from the creature of the great abyss.
Garden Story
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Ranked #7 for SCARLET NEXUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
Embark on a wholesome adventure to save The Grove! Forage resources, combat the invasive Rot, and restore the community. Relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor in this charming action-RPG starring a grape.
SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Ranked #8 for SCARLET NEXUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
The culmination of the SWORD ART ONLINE game series, Last Recollection features the largest roster of SAO playable characters and sub scenarios!
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GOD EATER 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Reviewers of SCARLET NEXUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
Set in a post-apocalyptic setting, it’s up to your special team of God Eaters to take down god-like monsters devastating the world. With an epic story, unique characters, and all new God Arcs and Aragami, the latest evolution in ACTION is here!
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Persona 5 Royal
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Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
Tales of ARISE
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Shares an epic mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Reviewers of SCARLET NEXUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
300 years of tyranny. A mysterious mask. Lost pain and memories. Wield the Blazing Sword and join a mysterious, untouchable girl to fight your oppressors. Experience a tale of liberation, featuring characters with next-gen graphical expressiveness!
The Wizard Game
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Reviewers of SCARLET NEXUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
An arcade style game with low poly art. You play as a wizard with a selection of six different abilities, and try to get a high score. The game also has a extremely mod friendly game engine, allowing you to change any game files, and create custom maps, model packs, enemies, game modes, etc.
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Experience the first “modern-era” Ys game, now off the small screen for its worldwide PC debut! Features a full party system, dozens of unique combat skills, and a massive overworld to explore. Uncover the secret of the Five Great Dragons, and help Adol Christin save the day once again!
Devil May Cry 5
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Shares an epic mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
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The ultimate Devil Hunter is back in style, in the game action fans have been waiting for.
CODE VEIN
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Reviewers of SCARLET NEXUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
In the face of certain death, we rise. Team up and embark on a journey to the ends of hell to unlock your past and escape your living nightmare in CODE VEIN.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SCARLET NEXUS at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~65% under SCARLET NEXUS on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
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 ~51% under SCARLET NEXUS on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
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 ~44% under SCARLET NEXUS on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
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 ~69% under SCARLET NEXUS on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
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.
Inscryption
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Priced ~44% under SCARLET NEXUS on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
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...
Noita
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Priced ~44% under SCARLET NEXUS on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under SCARLET NEXUS on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
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
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Priced ~79% under SCARLET NEXUS on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
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Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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TEKKEN 7
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Another title from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., the studio behind SCARLET NEXUS. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
Discover the epic conclusion of the long-time clan warfare between members of the Mishima family. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, the legendary fighting game franchise fights back with stunning story-driven cinematic battles and intense duels that can be enjoyed with friends and rivals.
TEKKEN 8
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Another title from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., the studio behind SCARLET NEXUS. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
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ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
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Shares an epic mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Another title from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., the studio behind SCARLET NEXUS. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
Become an ace pilot and soar through photorealistic skies with full 360 degree movement; down enemy aircraft and experience the thrill of engaging in realistic sorties! Aerial combat has never looked or felt better!
Tales of ARISE
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Another title from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., the studio behind SCARLET NEXUS. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
300 years of tyranny. A mysterious mask. Lost pain and memories. Wield the Blazing Sword and join a mysterious, untouchable girl to fight your oppressors. Experience a tale of liberation, featuring characters with next-gen graphical expressiveness!
Tales of Berseria™
WHY THIS
Another title from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., the studio behind SCARLET NEXUS. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
Players embark on a journey of self-discovery as they assume the role of Velvet, a young woman whose once kind demeanor has been replaced and overcome with a festering anger and hatred after a traumatic experience three years prior to the events within Tales of Berseria.
SOULCALIBUR VI
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Another title from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., the studio behind SCARLET NEXUS. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
Bring more than your fists to the fight! Featuring all-new battle mechanics and characters, SOULCALIBUR VI marks a new era of the historic franchise. Welcome back to the stage of history!
GOD EATER 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Another title from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., the studio behind SCARLET NEXUS. Shares Action with SCARLET NEXUS.
Set in a post-apocalyptic setting, it’s up to your special team of God Eaters to take down god-like monsters devastating the world. With an epic story, unique characters, and all new God Arcs and Aragami, the latest evolution in ACTION is here!
CODE VEIN II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Another title from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., the studio behind SCARLET NEXUS. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
An epic adventure awaits, where you and your chosen partners explore a post-apocalyptic world, face fierce battles against powerful enemies, and uncover an epic story that transcends time.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Tales of ARISE
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
300 years of tyranny. A mysterious mask. Lost pain and memories. Wield the Blazing Sword and join a mysterious, untouchable girl to fight your oppressors. Experience a tale of liberation, featuring characters with next-gen graphical expressiveness!
DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
The Dragon Ball RPG of your dreams! For the first time, you can play the rest of the story. Step into the universe of Dragon Ball Z in all its iconic glory and become the hero you were always meant to be!
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
Shiness is an Action-RPG developed by indie development studio Enigami, which will let you travel in a captivating universe doomed to destruction ever since the fragmentation of the planet Mahera...
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARLET NEXUS.
The spriggan known as Van Arkride, an underground professional, accepts any job, acting as detective, negotiator, or bounty hunter. Dive into the Trails series' latest chapter with intense combat, beautiful visuals, and a new alignment system in Calvard!
Garden Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARLET NEXUS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with SCARLET NEXUS.
Embark on a wholesome adventure to save The Grove! Forage resources, combat the invasive Rot, and restore the community. Relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor in this charming action-RPG starring a grape.
Frequently asked about SCARLET NEXUS
- Is SCARLET NEXUS verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SCARLET NEXUS 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 SCARLET NEXUS cost?
- SCARLET NEXUS is listed on Steam at 14.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SCARLET NEXUS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SCARLET NEXUS are Tales of ARISE, DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT, Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom.
- Who developed SCARLET NEXUS?
- SCARLET NEXUS was developed by BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc. and published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment.
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