60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Samurai, Indie, Simulation.
Swap your severed head and the hell you wander changes. A Japanese psychological walking-horror: drift a fallen warrior's ghost through absurd afterlives that shift with every head you wear.
Shadow War
"Shadow War" is a 2D action game focused on combat with a Japanese-inspired atmosphere. Enjoy a variety of combat actions by combining normal attack combos, parries, guarding, and skills that consume Spirit.
Sword of the Samurai
Enter Japan in the age of warring states. At the center of this role-playing, action-adventure simulation of combat, statesmanship and intrigue, you are a samurai warrior struggling for honor!
"Shadow War" is a 2D action game focused on combat with a Japanese-inspired atmosphere. Enjoy a variety of combat actions by combining normal attack combos, parries, guarding, and skills that consume Spirit.
Why similar: Samurai 85.5% ★, Side Scroller 14.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Enter Japan in the age of warring states. At the center of this role-playing, action-adventure simulation of combat, statesmanship and intrigue, you are a samurai warrior struggling for honor!
Why similar: Samurai 86.6% ★, Simulation 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Play as Kento, an Elder Samurai, and face the evil Yokai in this 2D pixelated mini action RPG set in Feudal Japan based scenarios!
Why similar: Samurai 80.5% ★, Side Scroller 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
The samurai detective visual novel! Solve crimes and pass judgment on vigilantes, officials, inventors, and brigands to protect a city of eternal cherry blossoms.
Why similar: Samurai 94.1% ★, Choices Matter 5.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Blood Moon Duel is a fast, lethal pixel-art samurai dueling game. Read your opponent, clash blades, parry, dodge, and strike first in atmospheric arenas where one wrong move can decide everything.
Why similar: Samurai 83.5% ★, Side Scroller 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Heart Abyss is a brutal action-platformer inspired by Japan during the 17th and 18th centuries. Wake up your inner beast and take vengeance on those who put a collar around your neck. Find your sister and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of all jinkos.
Why similar: Samurai 76.8% ★, Side Scroller 18%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A rainy night, unfamiliar figures outside your mobile home and the growing feeling that something is terribly wrong.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.7%, Simulation 28.7%, Exploration 18.9%, Horror 16.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Pixel RPG about a newbie ninja. Infiltrate a samurai clan, bamboozle fools, destroy some wolves! Fake it till you make it.
Why similar: Samurai 83.7% ★, Choices Matter 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Forge your own swordsmanship in this hardcore samurai survival action game. Build custom combo chains, master precise swordplay, and survive against endless waves of samurai and legendary swordsmen.
Why similar: Samurai 99.1% ★, Singleplayer 0.9%
Christmas Eve, a delivery driver turns onto Holly Ridge & becomes trapped inside a decaying house of death. Reality fractures as something hunts her through rooms that shouldn’t exist. Survive the night, uncover the truth behind the house, & escape the snowy nightmare, if escape is even possible.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Simulation 27.7%, Exploration 18.9%, Horror 17.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
The Utawarerumono legend reaches a new climax in this sprawling JRPG! As a shadow falls over Yamato once more, Oshtor and friends set out on a fresh adventure—and somewhere, amid white mists, a long slumber approaches its end.
Why similar: Samurai 93.2% ★, Exploration 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Vanillaware x Marvelous present an action RPG for the ages. Hack and slash your way through a world of restless spirits and Demon Blades. The tales of six fabled protagonists of Japan's Genroku era, each with their own unique fighting style, are about to unfold.
Why similar: Samurai 81.2% ★, Side Scroller 12.6%, Exploration 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A walking simulator in which you control a mentally ill hero. You must escape the ``something'' you encounter and return to the original world as you know it. Explore the map while running away from "something" and find a way to escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.8%, Horror 21.9%, Simulation 19.5%, Exploration 15.7%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Trapped in a strange staircase, you must determine what is happening here and head for the exit on the first floor. You will be able to go to a new stage by checking all the phenomena.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.3%, Simulation 22%, Horror 21.6%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
What is the "Dandarasama" passed down in a small village? A horror game in which you wander through the mountains at night and try to escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.3%, Simulation 24%, Horror 22.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Animount has been seized by Drammul, the Lizard King, and his army. The only one capable of stopping them is Oro, the serpent. Trapped in a cycle of reincarnation, choose Scrolls, skills and equipments, and join powerful Sects in this Auto-Battler Roguelike to defeat Drammul and save Animount.
Why similar: Samurai 86.6% ★, Simulation 7.8%, Choices Matter 5.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
The Sickle Upon Sekigahara is a short Visual Novel that puts the player in the role of Kobayakawa Hideaki in the most tumultuous period of his life.
Why similar: Samurai 100% ★
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Samurai 66.1% ★, Side Scroller 16.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Exploration 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 3%
A found footage horror game about two sisters who often play hide and seek in their family home, recording everything with their mother's VHS camera. What begins innocently, soon turns disturbing, when it becomes clear that something is terribly wrong.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.4%, Horror 22%, Exploration 18.2%, Simulation 16%, Psychedelic 13.6%
Welcome Home is a bone-chilling horror walking simulator that plunges you into a world of terror and intrigue. Set in a decrepit and sinister house that you have just purchased, this game will test your courage as you navigate through the eerie halls of your new home.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.7%, Horror 24.3%, Simulation 23.9%, Exploration 16.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Everyone is on the train heading home. You are waiting for the train to arrive at a certain station. Will you make it home safely?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.1%, Side Scroller 26%, Horror 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Simulation 9.5%
"Red Masked Ronin" is an open-world adult game where you play the lustful life of a Ronin in feudal Japan’s Middle Ages. The journey, beginning as a wandering Ronin, is shaped by seductive encounters and unexpectedly deepening passions.
Why similar: Samurai 91.8% ★, Exploration 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Lead a samurai invasion into the mysterious island of Awaji! Recruit, promote, and upgrade your warriors while navigating the ancient world of feudal Japan. Use samurai weapons and strategies to conquer the entire island and become Warlord!
Why similar: Samurai 98.9% ★, Singleplayer 1.1%
Capcom’s riveting samurai adventure returns! This version includes the original game’s intense swordplay and dramatic revenge story, plus improved controls, widescreen display, a new soundtrack, and more. Experience this enhanced version of the best-selling action-adventure classic!
Why similar: Samurai 93.9% ★, Horror 4.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Trapped in a haunted loop at a forgotten three-way junction— Can you find what’s wrong before the night consumes you?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37%, Simulation 30.2%, Exploration 18.5%, Horror 13%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Date Due is a first person horror game where you play as a librarian performing daily tasks to assist readers and manage the library. Unusual things start happening around you. With no way to escape, you must investigate and uncover the mystery behind the hauntings....
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35%, Simulation 26.4%, Exploration 19.4%, Horror 17.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Neotokio is the capital city of Japan in the year 3020. A place whose control is fought over between two Yakuza clans: the conservative clan Minashigo and the progressive clan Kuroi Taiyo. Put yourself into the position of Kaito, who has to rescue Aiko and recover his lost honour as samurái of the clan Minashigo.
Why similar: Samurai 100% ★
Play as a courier on one last delivery to an old St. Petersburg apartment, uncovering a labyrinth of mirrors, hidden secrets, and a family's haunting past. Solve puzzles, explore rooms, and experience a 2D psychological horror adventure full of tension and mystery.
Why similar: Side Scroller 42.5%, Walking Simulator 37.4%, Horror 18.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Ashigaru Tactics is a turn-based hex tactical combat sandbox game, set in Sengoku-era Japan. Assemble a squad of mercenaries and fight, survive, and kill in a land ravaged by clan wars, bandit incursions, and whispers of Yokai emerging.
Why similar: Samurai 89.4% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Your mission is to cleanse a cursed item in a haunted house. Use your tools to locate and investigate items. Create a ritual area to mark your location of interest and bring items with energy there to progress. Be careful though, the unknown is always watching you and waiting around every corner.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.7%, Simulation 24.5%, Horror 17.6%, Exploration 17.5%, Choices Matter 8%
Immerse yourself in the cozy atmosphere of an Asian noodle shop right on your desktop. Discover new recipes, decorate your stall, and serve peasants, samurai, and yokai delicious hot meals while you work or relax.
Why similar: Samurai 86.7% ★, Simulation 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Shadow of the Road is a story-driven, turn-based RPG where feudal Japan meets magic and machine. Assemble your team from a diverse set of characters and test your skills against yōkai and steampunk contraptions. Carve your own path through an immersive story and change the fate of the Empire.
Why similar: Samurai 82.6% ★, Exploration 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
The first game in the Utawarerumono trilogy of story-rich tactics RPGs. Into a world filled with verdant nature, populated by folk with fluffy ears and fuzzy tails, awakens Hakuowlo, a man of masked mien and missing memory.
Why similar: Samurai 92.4% ★, Simulation 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
When a mysterious force snatches his Grandpa into the depths of the Bamboo Forest, young Sam must master the ancient art of Bushido to bring him home. Battle a wacky cast of enemies and an even wackier cast of bamboo in this action packed 2D Adventure.
Why similar: Samurai 70.4% ★, Side Scroller 29%, Singleplayer 0.7%
A short walking simulator with a horror feel that recreates actual found footage, which can be related to Liminal Space and Backrooms.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.1%, Exploration 25%, Simulation 18.6%, Horror 18.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
You are trapped in a dangerous undersea ruin. Let’s escape from the deep sea with observation and quick situational judgment.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.9%, Horror 18.9%, Exploration 17.1%, Simulation 16%, Choices Matter 11.5%
A tactical pixel-art roguelite. Manage your Ki up to a lethal limit of 21. Bend the rules of the duel with special cards to alter combat conditions. Risk it all to hit exactly 21 for a Perfect Focus lethal strike. Plan your route and survive. Your strategy is your sharpest weapon.
Why similar: Samurai 86.2% ★, Choices Matter 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
You've been hired to keep watch in a mysterious building with an infinite stairwell. Your task is simple: investigate each floor for strange phenomena. If you find an anomaly, be careful. Test your skills on the global leaderboard and in the weekly challenge event.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.6%, Horror 24.2%, Simulation 16.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Exploration 10%
The dragon is already dead. Help what's left of humanity learn how to live in this post-apocalyptic fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: Samurai 91.8% ★, Choices Matter 8.2%
Find your way out of a haunted house like a maze. A first-person horror exploration adventure.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 49.1%, Exploration 25%, Horror 24.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
A short PSX-style horror game. Explore a dark cellar, collect 8 books, and survive a few tense encounters with a lurking presence.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.8%, Horror 26.9%, Exploration 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Singleplayer 2%
It was the worst day of his life. The car hit Damon. Damon, in a coma, was on the thin line between life and death. To wake up from his coma, Damon had to win the battle with himself.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.2%, Psychedelic 24.7%, Horror 18.6%, Exploration 15.5%, Simulation 11.9%
You are trapped in a Hotel by accident Find out all the signs of abnormality in the hallway Escape by going down to the first floor while carefully observing your surroundings
Why similar: Horror 30%, Walking Simulator 25.6%, Simulation 22%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Singleplayer 2.7%
Experience an epic action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos.
Why similar: Samurai 92.8% ★, Exploration 6.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Spot the "anomalies." One wrong call sends you back to square one. "The Parking Garage" is a first-person anomaly-spotting walking simulator.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 43.7%, Horror 20.3%, Exploration 17.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Ethan Cross hasn’t heard from his mother in weeks. He decides to check on her at the family home but what he finds is silence, locked doors, and rooms that feel wrong. Trapped in a decaying house bound to a cursed clock. Explore, survive, and uncover what time has forgotten.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.9%, Horror 29.6%, Simulation 27.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%
"MINDFALL" is a tense first-person psychological horror game that explores the depths of the human mind and its struggle with the unknown.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Simulation 25.5%, Psychedelic 17.2%, Exploration 16.6%, Horror 9.3%
Disgraced is a unique samurai themed role playing game that allows players to lead a rebellion in a fight for freedom against a cruel and tyrannical Shogun in Feudal Japan.
Why similar: Samurai 80.8% ★, Exploration 10.4%, Choices Matter 4.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%
When heaven is tainted by evil, where shall we find redemption? Or, is this a path to heaven, or a road to hell?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.7%, Exploration 20.9%, Simulation 20.1%, Horror 19.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Inherit your samurai family's forgotten island and rebuild it by hand — chop, mine, and raise multi-story homes across sunlit beaches, snowy peaks, and glowing caves. Trade tips with the locals, play a hand of cards, fend off bumbling hunters and shinobi, and earn the ancestral katana.
Why similar: Samurai 76.8% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Exploration 9.7%
eat, sleep, work, repeat.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.8%, Psychedelic 23.8%, Horror 19.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
An anomaly-finding horror game where you play as a young boy returning home from school. Search the house for disturbing changes, survive increasingly strange events, investigate your suspicious mother, and uncover the truth behind an anomaly outbreak spreading across the city.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.6%, Horror 30.1%, Simulation 20.6%, Exploration 15.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun is a turn-based tactical and strategic game set during the Sengoku era; primarily focusing on the Japanese Warring States period and Japanese Invasion of Korea.
Why similar: Samurai 100% ★
One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.
Why similar: Side Scroller 31.7%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Exploration 16.7%, Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%
You wake up trapped in a simulation. A voice asks you to report anomalies. You have two choices: follow its instructions or defy them. One leads to a simple anomaly game, the other to an exploration horror experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.9%, Exploration 20.4%, Simulation 18.7%, Horror 18.6%, Choices Matter 5.9%
You get a strange job. Your job is to patrol a 13th-floor apartment, look for anomalies...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Exploration 28.3%, Simulation 21.4%, Horror 13.3%, Singleplayer 2.5%
When you come to your senses, you find yourself trapped in a nightmare. The books scattered around will guide you through your future.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.6%, Horror 32.3%, Simulation 28.5%, Singleplayer 2.6%
HORROR is a test of your logic in the face of primal fear. You are unarmed. You are vulnerable. All you have is a flashlight with a dying battery and your intellect.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Horror 24.7%, Exploration 21.2%, Simulation 15%, Psychedelic 11.1%
