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2017 · 85 % positive of 402

24 games that play like Nefarious and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Amazing Princess Sarah, Saviorless and Freedom Fall.

Player tags

  • Indie
  • Adventure
  • Action
  • Villain Protagonist
  • Platformer
  • 2D

At a glance

What games like Nefarious have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Nefarious: Platformer (24 of 24), Adventure (21) and Indie (18).
  • They came out between 2010 and 2024, 11 of them after Nefarious (2017).
  • Best rated by Steam players: eversion (91 % positive of 1,308).
  • Berserk Boy both plays and looks like Nefarious.

By gameplay

Plays like Nefarious

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

More matches

  1. Kalinur96 % positive of 477Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure
  2. NETHER HEROES90 % positive of 730Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure
  3. Angvik 295 % positive of 165Shared: Platformer · Action
  4. Flat Kingdom Paper's Cut Edition73 % positive of 198Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure
  5. Shiro82 % positive of 434Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure
  6. Zack Zero64 % positive of 418Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure
  7. Spoiler Alert75 % positive of 1,275Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure
  8. Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found66 % positive of 324Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure
  9. Viktor70 % positive of 246Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure
  10. Kingdom Shell88 % positive of 203Shared: Platformer · Adventure · Action
  11. Berserk Boy86 % positive of 348Shared: Platformer · Adventure · Action
  12. Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe94 % positive of 692Shared: Platformer · Indie · Adventure

By look

Looks like Nefarious

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

More matches

  1. Iconoclasts86 % positive of 4,730
  2. Robot Wants It All88 % positive of 167
  3. Alien Hominid HD95 % positive of 501
  4. Guacamelee! 291 % positive of 3,145
  5. Sky Racket95 % positive of 167
  6. Super Magbot85 % positive of 364
  7. Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition91 % positive of 248
  8. Magicmaker90 % positive of 599
  9. BLACKHOLE85 % positive of 1,051
  10. Atomik: RunGunJumpGun86 % positive of 317
  11. 30XX90 % positive of 2,536
  12. Berserk Boy86 % positive of 348

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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