Games Like DEADBOLT

Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 39.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.8%, Difficult 10.7%, Gore 9.7%, Violent 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same high-stakes, one-hit-kill gameplay loop and stylish, fast-paced action as DEADBOLT.

Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.3%, Gore 14%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Difficult 8.5%, Violent 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a primary inspiration for the tactical, room-clearing, and high-lethality combat found in DEADBOLT.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 40.9%, Gore 18.5%, Difficult 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Violent 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the brutal, rhythmic, and highly difficult top-down action that fans of DEADBOLT will appreciate.

Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Why similar: Stealth 50.2%, Difficult 22%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Violent 3.7%, Shooter 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the tactical stealth-action hybrid gameplay, focusing on careful planning and lethal execution.

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Why similar: Stealth 53.1%, Great Soundtrack 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Indie 4.5%, 2D 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the same tactical stealth and puzzle-solving approach to infiltrating secure areas.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Stealth 29.2%, Great Soundtrack 21.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Gore 11.9%, Violent 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core concept of using stealth and environmental traps to eliminate targets in a confined space.

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

Why similar: Gore 35.4%, Pixel Graphics 21%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%, Violent 9.1%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique villain-protagonist perspective with visceral, gore-filled combat and stealth elements.

BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

Why similar: Gore 24.8%, Great Soundtrack 14.5%, Difficult 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Violent 7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same gritty, gore-filled, and extremely difficult 2D action aesthetic.

Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

Why similar: Gore 21.9%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, Great Soundtrack 16.4%, Difficult 13.4%, Violent 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly dark, atmospheric, and challenging experience with a heavy focus on gore and pixel-art detail.

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

Why similar: Stealth 73%, Side Scroller 6.7%, 2D 5.2%, Platformer 4.2%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for 2D stealth, offering deep mechanics for avoiding detection and executing precise takedowns.

Rescue hostages, disarm bombs and save the day in this old school, side-scroller action game with retro graphics and retro sensibilities. Online and Couch Coop Included.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32.9%, Zombies 20.1%, Shooter 15.8%, 2D 11.1%, Action 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the tactical room-clearing experience into a 2D side-scrolling format that demands careful planning.

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32.3%, Difficult 21.1%, 2D 13.1%, Action 9.9%, Atmospheric 9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fast-paced, challenging combat experience with fluid movement and a distinct pixel-art style.

Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life.

Why similar: Stealth 66.4%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Indie 5.4%, Difficult 5.4%, Platformer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the stealth-puzzle mechanics required to survive in a lethal, trap-filled environment.

My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.4%, Gore 20%, Side Scroller 9.5%, Shooter 8.7%, Violent 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on stylish, high-octane action sequences that reward creative movement and precision aiming.

An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.4%, Gore 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Violent 9.7%, Difficult 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a brutal, visceral, and fast-paced combat experience that matches the intensity of DEADBOLT.

Ronin is stylish a turn-based action platformer following the exploits of a vengeful heroine determined to strike down five prominent figures of a powerful corporation.

Why similar: Stealth 46.9%, Great Soundtrack 13.2%, Difficult 12.9%, Indie 7.5%, Action 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends turn-based strategy with real-time stealth and action, requiring the same level of planning as DEADBOLT.

Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.3%, Gore 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Side Scroller 8.5%, Difficult 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a brutal, space-faring action game with a heavy metal soundtrack and intense pixel-art combat.

Slain: Back from Hell. A heavy metal inspired arcade combat with puzzle elements and gore galore. Stunning visuals and true old school gameplay accompanied by the most metal soundtrack you've ever heard.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.5%, Gore 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Difficult 13.7%, Action 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a heavy metal aesthetic, intense gore, and challenging 2D combat that aligns well with DEADBOLT.

The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, Difficult 17.2%, Side Scroller 12.2%, 2D 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a challenging, action-packed 2D experience with tight controls and a strong retro aesthetic.

FAKE SIGNALS is an action hybrid rogue-lite that you sneak in the enemies' camps, get various weapons and eliminate them.

Why similar: Stealth 37.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Gore 15.3%, 2D 7.1%, Action 6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a 2D stealth-action experience that focuses on tactical infiltration and quick, lethal combat.

It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!

Why similar: Stealth 30.4%, Great Soundtrack 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Violent 8.3%, Difficult 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It expands on the original's stealth-strategy mechanics with more tools and complex environments.

They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.

Why similar: Gore 32.4%, Difficult 22.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Side Scroller 9%, Action 5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a difficult, gore-heavy platforming experience that rewards precision and patience.

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.4%, Difficult 25.8%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Indie 6.1%, Action 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a fast-paced, difficult, and highly replayable action experience with a distinct pixel-art style.

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.1%, Difficult 10.4%, 2D 7.1%, Side Scroller 5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines precise 2D platforming and combat with a fantastic soundtrack and a distinct pixel-art style.

MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Gore 15.7%, Difficult 7.2%, Action 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines unique puzzle-platforming mechanics with intense, fast-paced action and a dark, pixelated world.

APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

Why similar: Gore 26.2%, Great Soundtrack 21.7%, Difficult 19%, Violent 11.7%, Action 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique, rhythmic, and highly violent combat style that emphasizes momentum and chaos.

Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 26.6%, Gore 19.2%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Action 10.3%, 2D 10%

Why You'll Like It: It provides explosive, high-energy 2D action with a focus on environmental destruction and gore.

Throw on your invisibility cloak and put your reflexes to the test in this brutal precision platformer brimming with espionage, intrigue, and betrayal! Featuring an Original Soundtrack by Grammy Award Winner RAC.

Why similar: Stealth 30.8%, Great Soundtrack 27%, Difficult 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Action 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a pure stealth-platformer that requires timing and precision to navigate through dangerous, guarded areas.

You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Difficult 15.5%, Action 12.8%, Indie 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a difficult, atmospheric action game where the enemies are as lethal as you are.

Cornered with nowhere else to turn, can you escape the monster-filled mansion? Dead Estate is a gory, fast-paced, challenging roguelike shooter with a heavy emphasis on horror.

Why similar: Difficult 27.5%, Gore 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Zombies 12.2%, Shooter 10.1%

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

Why similar: Difficult 36.5%, Gore 15.2%, 2D 11.5%, Side Scroller 10.5%, Action 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a dark, challenging, and atmospheric 2D experience that rewards careful combat management.

The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 42.7%, Difficult 26.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Indie 6.4%, Platformer 5.4%

Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23.3%, Pixel Graphics 20.8%, Gore 18.1%, Difficult 7.5%, Shooter 7.3%

Intravenous 2 is the ultimate blend of tactical gameplay and immersive storytelling. Will you embrace the shadows or confront your foes head-on? The choice is yours. Experience a new era of tactical stealth action. Save lives. Uncover secrets. Take vengeance.

Why similar: Stealth 39%, Gore 14.5%, Difficult 12.3%, Shooter 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 43.7%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, Difficult 18.2%, Atmospheric 4.8%, Indie 4.5%

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Why similar: Difficult 28.4%, Pixel Graphics 27.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.6%, Indie 8.2%, Action 7.3%

Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23%, Gore 13.8%, Difficult 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Side Scroller 9.4%

The followup to 2009's Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a combo-fueled, fast-paced, stylistic 2D action platformer that features the series' staple gritty, graphic novel-inspired art style, built on a new engine that allows for an even more visually gruesome experience.

Why similar: Vampires 30.4% ★, Gore 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 15.3%, Action 8.6%, Difficult 7%

Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.

Why similar: Gore 22.5%, Stealth 18.9%, Great Soundtrack 17%, Shooter 9.6%, Violent 9.3%

Bloody stealth platformer, about the ninja in which you cut the enemies into pieces.

Why similar: Stealth 25.9%, Gore 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Difficult 11.8%, Side Scroller 8.5%

The universe wants you dead. Take on the ten great spirits of the universe in this intense boss fighting challenge!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 36.1%, Difficult 24.2%, Action 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Indie 9%

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.7%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, 2D 6.1%, Indie 6%, Difficult 5.5%

STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.

Why similar: Gore 30.4%, Difficult 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Shooter 12.2%, Violent 12%

Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 37.2%, 2D 27.9%, Action 18.7%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Why similar: Zombies 22.6%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Gore 16.4%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Action 5.8%

After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 53%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Side Scroller 9.6%, Action 8%, Indie 7.5%

Fight to survive on a mysterious alien planet, outwit its vicious inhabitants, and do whatever it takes to find a way off that wretched rock.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.8%, Difficult 12.7%, Zombies 12.3%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Shooter 9%

Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 48.1%, Gore 25.5%, Shooter 12.2%, Action 5%, Atmospheric 4.3%

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation.

Why similar: Stealth 56.9%, Gore 11%, Side Scroller 8.5%, Violent 5.8%, 2D 5.4%

Enter an inexplicable, abstract mansion to rescue a loved one in this fast-paced, brutal, and dark roguelite filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion. Face your inner demons and unveil the secrets of the Mansion.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 38.9%, Gore 26.5%, Violent 15%, Shooter 8%, Action 5%

N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Why similar: Difficult 60%, Action 15.3%, Indie 12.2%, Platformer 7.4%, Singleplayer 5.1%

The Rare Nine - ultrafast and explosive beat 'em up, in which you should break through the darkness and hordes of undead in a giant skyscraper. Also you can enjoy a lot of great chiptune music.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23.4%, Gore 11.8%, Difficult 9.8%, Side Scroller 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

A full-blown adventure played with only two buttons. Become the recently deceased agent Terry Cooper and escape the underworld while facing the toughest, meanest and most difficult obstacles ever devised.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.2%, Difficult 21.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Action 12.8%, Indie 11%

Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 26.2%, Great Soundtrack 19%, Difficult 17.8%, 2D 8.5%, Action 7.8%

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.7%, Pixel Graphics 23.8%, Zombies 18.5%, Difficult 11.1%, Action 4.9%

Dead Purge: Outbreak is a modern first-person shooter set in an unforgiving post-apocalyptic world where every minute can be your last.

Why similar: Gore 28.1%, Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Violent 12.5%, Zombies 9.1%, Difficult 7.7%

Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

Why similar: Stealth 25.1%, Great Soundtrack 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.1%, Gore 9.7%, Action 6%

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31.6%, Pixel Graphics 28.6%, Difficult 14.9%, Indie 6.7%, Action 6.1%

“Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se

Why similar: Zombies 30.5%, Side Scroller 16.8%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Action 8.2%, Platformer 8.1%

Still Not Dead is a challenging roguelite FPS that merges the fast satisfying gunplay of Doom with open stages, insane weaponry, tactical choice and being pursued by death itself. The unique blessing and curse system, plus unlockable skill skulls set the game apart from everything else.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29.4%, Gore 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Difficult 11.5%, Zombies 9%