Similar games
Games like Hollow Knight
Team Cherry · 2017 · 97 % positive of 415,946
24 games that play like Hollow Knight and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Hollow Knight: Silksong, Kingdom Shell and Voidwrought.
Player tags
At a glance
What games like Hollow Knight have in common
- The tags they share most often with Hollow Knight: Metroidvania (23 of 24), Platformer (22) and Souls-like (12).
- They came out between 2013 and 2025, 19 of them after Hollow Knight (2017).
- Best rated by Steam players: Dust: An Elysian Tail (95 % positive of 18,638).
- 6 games both play and look like Hollow Knight, among them Hollow Knight: Silksong, Voidwrought and Aeterna Noctis.
By gameplay
Plays like Hollow Knight
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
89 % positive of 425,743
Kingdom Shell
88 % positive of 203
Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
Voidwrought
78 % positive of 611
Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Exploration
Void Memory
67 % positive of 224
Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
Aeterna Noctis
76 % positive of 1,756
Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
80 % positive of 222
Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
Beholgar
75 % positive of 308
Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Dark Fantasy
Dust: An Elysian Tail
95 % positive of 18,638
Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Exploration
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
94 % positive of 468
Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Difficult
Souldiers
68 % positive of 2,684
Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
81 % positive of 5,273
Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
3000th Duel
72 % positive of 607
Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
More matches
- Odallus: The Dark Call88 % positive of 1,320Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Difficult
- DOOMBLADE83 % positive of 306Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
- Venture to the Vile76 % positive of 164Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Exploration
- Foregone81 % positive of 1,350Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
- Twilight Monk75 % positive of 241Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
- INAYAH - Life after Gods87 % positive of 181Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Story Rich
- Sundered®: Eldritch Edition82 % positive of 4,957Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Difficult
- BIOMORPH92 % positive of 562Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Exploration
- Kalinur96 % positive of 477Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Exploration
- Blasphemous 291 % positive of 14,237Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
- Unworthy80 % positive of 804Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Difficult
- Elypse77 % positive of 294Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Difficult
By look
Looks like Hollow Knight
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
89 % positive of 425,743
Elypse
77 % positive of 294
Lumione
73 % positive of 476
BIOMORPH
92 % positive of 562
Aeterna Noctis
76 % positive of 1,756
Greak: Memories of Azur
78 % positive of 1,369
Voidwrought
78 % positive of 611
DOOMBLADE
83 % positive of 306
Exorcist Fairy
65 % positive of 323
Deepening Fire
72 % positive of 597
Have a Nice Death
86 % positive of 9,939
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
95 % positive of 66,979
More matches
- Unbound: Worlds Apart84 % positive of 1,200
- Echo Weaver96 % positive of 96
- Unbound: Worlds Apart Prologue95 % positive of 876
- Kelipot84 % positive of 797
- MO:Astray91 % positive of 4,934
- DEVIATOR70 % positive of 917
- Rain World94 % positive of 42,277
- Madshot84 % positive of 269
- GRIME85 % positive of 5,788
- Ori and the Blind Forest94 % positive of 57,412
- Constance82 % positive of 3,144
- MIO: Memories in Orbit83 % positive of 5,384
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.