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Halberd Studios · 2023 · 76 % positive of 2,588

24 games that play like 9 Years of Shadows and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Beholgar, DOOMBLADE and AWAKEN - Astral Blade.

Player tags

  • Metroidvania
  • Platformer
  • Side Scroller
  • Fantasy
  • Anime
  • Action RPG
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Action-Adventure

At a glance

What games like 9 Years of Shadows have in common

  • The tags they share most often with 9 Years of Shadows: Metroidvania (23 of 24), Platformer (22) and Side Scroller (19).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2026, 5 of them after 9 Years of Shadows (2023).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Hollow Knight (97 % positive of 415,946).
  • Foregone, Vigil: The Longest Night and Kingdom Shell both play and look like 9 Years of Shadows.

By gameplay

Plays like 9 Years of Shadows

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Kingdom Shell88 % positive of 203Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
  2. Fallen Tear: The Ascension78 % positive of 499
  3. Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight93 % positive of 11,248Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
  4. Unworthy80 % positive of 804Shared: Metroidvania · Side Scroller · Pixel Graphics
  5. Ghost Song83 % positive of 1,254Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
  6. Lost Ruins85 % positive of 5,428Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
  7. Hollow Knight97 % positive of 415,946Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
  8. HunterX83 % positive of 653Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
  9. Akatori: Сhapter One93 % positive of 947Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
  10. Kalinur96 % positive of 477Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Fantasy
  11. Ori and the Blind Forest94 % positive of 57,412Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Side Scroller
  12. Vernal Edge78 % positive of 543Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Fantasy

By look

Looks like 9 Years of Shadows

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Dark Devotion75 % positive of 2,344
  2. Dragon Marked For Death77 % positive of 1,011
  3. Foregone81 % positive of 1,350
  4. Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark61 % positive of 429
  5. Dead Cells97 % positive of 168,464
  6. Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-93 % positive of 6,733
  7. The Last Faith82 % positive of 4,017
  8. Seed Hunter 猎源68 % positive of 375
  9. Vigil: The Longest Night86 % positive of 3,355
  10. Hunt the Night77 % positive of 472
  11. Afterimage77 % positive of 8,404
  12. Aeterna Noctis76 % positive of 1,756

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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