Steam Deck games like Nanoui
Below are 7 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Nanoui (5 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
- 1
Charlie Murder
Deck Verified alternative to Nanoui — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nanoui.
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
- 2
Streets of Rage 4
Deck Verified alternative to Nanoui — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nanoui.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
- 3
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
Deck Verified alternative to Nanoui — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Nanoui.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
- 4
Abyss Odyssey
Deck Verified alternative to Nanoui — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nanoui.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
- 5
Salt and Sacrifice
Deck Verified alternative to Nanoui — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Nanoui.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
- 6
Rampage Knights
Deck Playable alternative to Nanoui — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nanoui.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
- 7
Wulverblade
Deck Playable alternative to Nanoui — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nanoui.
Defeat the Ninth Legion of the Roman army in this side-scrolling, arcade-inspired beat 'em up set in Roman-era Britain.