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Games Like Heartless & Dreadful : Return by 72 Hours

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Singleplayer, Hack and Slash, Adventure.

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Heartless and Dreadful is a character action game, made mostly by one person. It features complex and satisfying combat and a short story campaign with multiple, brutal difficulty options, allowing for quite a bit of replayability. And additional unlockable side content.

Reviews: Very Positive — 97% — of 62 reviews
Released: 2023-08-20
Developer: Kirillian
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Linux

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  59. #59 Blasphemous
    64% matchVery Positive90% of 63,499 reviews2019
    Dev: The Game KitchenPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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: Violent 29.4%, Gore 28.2%, Dark Fantasy 23.8%, Action 6.6%, Hack and Slash 5.6%

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