Games like Shinobi Bad Buddies
If Shinobi Bad Buddies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Move or Die, Chronac: Escape and Ninza — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, lighthearted and retro. 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 Shinobi Bad Buddies: Shinobi Bad Buddies will reveal the mischievous ninja in you, as you make your way through the story and the co-op missions or challenge your friends into a local battle!
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Move or Die
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Shares a funny mood with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Top pick for Shinobi Bad Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.
Chronac: Escape
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Second-strongest match for Shinobi Bad Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
CHRONAC! The roguelike action game where you shoot, slash, blast your way out the facility that created you. Gain powerful upgrades, face unforgiving enemies. Together.
Ninza
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Shares a funny mood with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Third-strongest match for Shinobi Bad Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Ninza is a free multiplayer game like no other! Instead of directly attacking your opponents, you crush them by pushing pieces of the level. Embrace chaos and dive into an entirely new level of frenzied and creative gameplay, where the environment itself becomes both your weapon and your enemy.
Black & White Bushido
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Shares a funny mood with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Ranked #4 for Shinobi Bad Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Black & White Bushido is a 1-4 player stealth-em-up arena brawl. Choose between the light and the shadow in three challenging game modes. Hide with camouflage, throw shurikens and drop smoke bombs to beat your friends locally or online.
N++ (NPLUSPLUS)
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Ranked #5 for Shinobi Bad Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.
Dismantle: Construct Carnage
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Ranked #6 for Shinobi Bad Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
‘Dismantle: Construct Carnage’, is a local-multiplayer arena brawler, where you can literally tear your opponents limb from limb. Feel the effects of damage as you hop, crawl and roll your way to victory, making sure your own body parts aren’t used as weapons against you.
Rocket League®
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Shares a funny mood with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Ranked #7 for Shinobi Bad Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
Slime-san: Superslime Edition
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Ranked #8 for Shinobi Bad Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
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Worms Armageddon
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Reviewers of Shinobi Bad Buddies cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Those intrepid invertebrates return with a vengeance in the much-loved Worms™ Armageddon. It’s a whole new can of worms! It’s hilarious fun that you can enjoy on your own or with all your friends.
SteamWorld Dig
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Reviewers of Shinobi Bad Buddies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Windforge
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Shares a retro mood with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Reviewers of Shinobi Bad Buddies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
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Shares a retro mood with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Reviewers of Shinobi Bad Buddies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
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Move or Die
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.
N++ (NPLUSPLUS)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.
Rocket League®
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shinobi Bad Buddies.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
Frequently asked about Shinobi Bad Buddies
- Does Shinobi Bad Buddies run on Steam Deck?
- Shinobi Bad Buddies is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Shinobi Bad Buddies free to play?
- Yes — Shinobi Bad Buddies is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Shinobi Bad Buddies have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shinobi Bad Buddies supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Shinobi Bad Buddies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shinobi Bad Buddies are Move or Die, Chronac: Escape, Ninza.
- Who developed Shinobi Bad Buddies?
- Shinobi Bad Buddies was developed by Corbak Games.
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