Games Like RONIN

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: Ninja 48.8% ★, Stealth 30.3%, Platformer 9.5%, 2D 3.8%, Action 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the core ninja stealth experience with high-quality 2D platforming and a focus on silent, lethal takedowns.

Red Ronin is a Turn-based but fast paced dash 'n slash game where a bloodthirsty ronin and her companion bot search for revenge.

Why similar: Ninja 44.6% ★, Turn-Based Combat 17.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.7%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest spiritual successor to the seed, featuring grid-based movement and turn-based combat that emphasizes tactical planning.

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: Ninja 33.2% ★, Platformer 16.4%, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Great Soundtrack 9.3%, Difficult 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: While faster-paced, it shares the same 'one-hit-kill' lethality and stylish, cinematic approach to 2D combat.

Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Why similar: Turn-Based 25%, Stealth 22.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Cyberpunk 13.4%, Difficult 10%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in turn-based stealth, requiring the same careful planning and risk management found in the seed game.

DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.

Why similar: Stealth 47.2%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Difficult 12.4%, Indie 7.7%, Action 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical 2D stealth-action game where you must carefully plan your approach to eliminate targets in a variety of ways.

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Turn-Based 44.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 26%, Turn-Based Combat 15.2%, Indie 8.5%, Great Soundtrack 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the ultimate turn-based tactical experience where every movement is a puzzle that must be solved to survive.

A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.

Why similar: Turn-Based 40.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.9%, Turn-Based Combat 21.4%, Action 9.7%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully combines turn-based combat with stylish, cinematic action sequences that feel like a tactical puzzle.

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: Ninja 56.8% ★, Platformer 12.3%, Cyberpunk 9.8%, Difficult 6%, 2D 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A refined 2D ninja platformer that focuses on tight controls and challenging combat encounters.

With its cyberpunk city brought to life with retro graphics, Ninja Issen invites players into a world filled with "hyper ninja action" as they work alone to annihilate waves of enemy troops using a variety of ninja skills and fight bosses coming at you with relentless, diverse attack patterns.

Why similar: Ninja 64% ★, Cyberpunk 14%, Platformer 9.2%, Action 7.2%, 2D 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a high-octane, cyberpunk-infused ninja experience that captures the same aesthetic and intensity.

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 60.2%, Platformer 11.8%, Indie 8.3%, 2D 6.4%, Action 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes tactical infiltration and puzzle-solving through movement, allowing players to manipulate their environment to bypass guards.

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 26.9%, Ninja 25.3% ★, Platformer 16.2%, Difficult 10%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A stealth-focused platformer that relies on timing and environmental awareness rather than brute force.

KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.

Why similar: Ninja 38.2% ★, Action 20%, Indie 17.6%, Platformer 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features fluid, movement-based combat that rewards players for mastering the protagonist's agility.

Shadow Blade is an action-platformer set in a visually striking world where the ancient teachings of ninjas and samurai clash upon a modern landscape. Sprint through stages littered with traps, slaying enemies along your path without hesitation as Kuro, the blade of shadow!

Why similar: Ninja 70% ★, Platformer 15.9%, Action 7.9%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced ninja platformer that emphasizes fluid movement and satisfying combat mechanics.

SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.

Why similar: Action 31.6%, Difficult 21.7%, Indie 19.9%, Cyberpunk 19.8%, Singleplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: The 'time moves only when you move' mechanic perfectly mirrors the turn-based tactical philosophy of the seed game.

10 SECOND NINJA X is a hardcore sidescroller. You're a ninja, there are robots, you've got ten seconds to destroy them all. Get three star ratings, climb leaderboards, discover secrets and stop Captain Greatbeard.

Why similar: Ninja 45.2% ★, Platformer 22.1%, Action 11.4%, Indie 9%, Difficult 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the precision and speed required for high-level ninja platforming, challenging players to optimize their routes.

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

Why similar: Ninja 50.1% ★, Stealth 16.2%, Platformer 11.4%, Difficult 6.3%, Action 6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D ninja action game that incorporates stealth and crafting elements into its platforming gameplay.

Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.5%, Female Protagonist 21.4%, Great Soundtrack 19.6%, Turn-Based 18.1%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The 'Turn()' mechanic allows for a tactical pause-and-plan combat style that feels very similar to the seed game's strategic flow.

2121 A.D, with no escape options, Akane prepares for her final battle in the rain-soaked neon streets of Mega-Tokyo. Akane is an arena arcade slasher. Take out as many yakuza as possible, slashing and shooting in a one-hit-one-kill fight to the death.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 34.4%, Female Protagonist 18.9%, Indie 12.6%, Action 12.4%, Difficult 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This arena-based slasher captures the lethal, one-hit-kill intensity of the seed game in a cyberpunk setting.

Super House of Dead Ninjas is an action arcade game with roguelite elements. Race against a 30 second timer as you descend floor after foe-filled floor and attempt to unlock the secrets of this deadly tower!Play as the fearsome Crimson Ninja, wielding an arsenal of deadly ninja weapons and attacks.

Why similar: Ninja 51.3% ★, Platformer 18.6%, Difficult 7.7%, Action 7.5%, Female Protagonist 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that leans into the fast, brutal nature of 2D ninja combat.

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Why similar: Stealth 67.9%, Action 12.1%, Indie 12%, 2D 5.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows for tactical, pause-and-plan stealth missions that reward creative problem-solving and precision.

Stylish, action-adventure game featuring counter-based, non-lethal combat centered around ronin Tomoe's signature dash-counter mechanic, fighting with nothing but her bare fists to disarm her former allies, the samurai army of Shogun Akechi.

Why similar: Ninja 70.8% ★, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Action 6.6%, 2D 6.3%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, non-lethal tactical combat system that requires precise timing and strategic positioning.

Jack Move is a JRPG that features a unique blend of gritty cyberpunk story telling, turn based battles and beautiful modern pixel art. Take on the role of Noa, a vigilante hacker who is thrust into a world of murder, kidnapping and dark research after her father goes missing.

Why similar: Turn-Based 44.5%, Turn-Based Combat 16.6%, Cyberpunk 15.9%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, 2D 5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG with a strong cyberpunk aesthetic that shares the stylish, urban atmosphere of the seed game.

In a silent world where music is outlawed, play as a singer to shatter the strings of fate and sing the melody of freedom in this unforgiving Turn Based Rhythm JRPG.

Why similar: Turn-Based 41.3%, Cyberpunk 16.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.2%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Difficult 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-based, turn-based combat game that brings a fresh tactical perspective to the cyberpunk genre.

In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

Why similar: Turn-Based 63.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 28.4%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that focuses on planning and executing complex maneuvers to clear rooms efficiently.

Agent in Depth is a daring action-platformer featuring fast-paced action and instant-death combat. You’ll run, jump, aim, and deflect bullets with your katana to blow up your enemies. No checkpoints, no upgrades: just pure skills. Deflect, die, learn, repeat. Be better, be faster.

Why similar: Ninja 70.8% ★, Cyberpunk 10.2%, Action 6.5%, Indie 4.4%, Stealth 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich ninja action game that emphasizes the unforgiving nature of stealth and combat.

Aerannis is a mission-based stealth action game set in a world of conspiracy and full of action and assassinations.

Why similar: Stealth 36.3%, Cyberpunk 19.1%, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Platformer 7.1%, Action 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A stealth-action game with a female protagonist that focuses on navigating dangerous environments.

Amaterasu and her yokai army rule over feudal Japan. Switch in real time between Kensei and Ayame to defeat the goddess in this intense, 16-bit action platformer with Metroidvania elements and gorgeous pixel art.

Why similar: Ninja 53.3% ★, Platformer 14%, Difficult 9.8%, Female Protagonist 7.5%, 2D 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled platformer that captures the classic ninja aesthetic with challenging, precision-based gameplay.

Arashi Gaiden is a turn-based action game with frenetic dash and slash combat. Use your blades, shurikens, teleports and chains to quickly cut through enemies and face powerful Bosses with unique mechanics that redefine what a turn-based game is.

Why similar: Ninja 43.3% ★, Turn-Based 25.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Turn-Based Combat 11.8%, Action 3.8%

Haneda Girl is an action-platformer game with brutal and frantic action. Clean stages swapping between two playable characters. Bullets or Slashes, your choice, but be creative. A wide variety of ways to solve each encounter are at your disposal. Dance the waltz of destruction, end the threat.

Why similar: Ninja 44.3% ★, Stealth 19.5%, Cyberpunk 10%, Platformer 9.1%, Female Protagonist 7.5%

Swing, climb, grab, and throw in this action platformer where you can grapple anywhere! Using Rena's magic bracelets, hook onto any surface to swing wherever you like, or grab your foes to send them hurtling into each other!

Why similar: Platformer 26.8%, Action 25.9%, Indie 21.7%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, 2D 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer that centers on unique movement mechanics, rewarding players for creative navigation.

Be a ninja and go on an action platforming adventure to save the world. Climb walls, slice up bad guys, master tricky platforming sequences and face ruthless bosses.

Why similar: Ninja 52.9% ★, Platformer 17%, Difficult 13.1%, 2D 5.6%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult 2D platformer that demands high precision and mastery of movement mechanics.

Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!

Why similar: Ninja 39.8% ★, Turn-Based 28.4%, Turn-Based Combat 11.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Difficult 5.4%

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: Ninja 46.2% ★, Stealth 31.9%, Platformer 12.1%, 2D 3%, Indie 3%

Platform game with a gloomy artistic style. Challenging levels with many traps and enemies. Use all your skills to avoid dangerous traps. Destroy all opponents on your way to revenge.

Why similar: Ninja 58.8% ★, Platformer 18.2%, Difficult 9.3%, Action 6.2%, Indie 3.7%

Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.

Why similar: Ninja 52.1% ★, Stealth 39%, Difficult 3.2%, Indie 2.3%, Action 1.8%

You are Akane, a Kunoichi ninja secretely loving her master Goro, a noble samurai. One day Goro is kidnapped by the evil Hiromi - you have to rescue him, but it won't be an easy task!

Why similar: Ninja 42% ★, Platformer 24.9%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Action 7.9%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style platformer featuring a female ninja protagonist and fast-paced action.

A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.

Why similar: Ninja 60.4% ★, Platformer 15%, Difficult 8.6%, Action 6.1%, 2D 4.6%

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: Ninja 58.4% ★, Platformer 15.5%, Great Soundtrack 6.7%, 2D 5.2%, Difficult 4.9%

From the dark streets of San Diego to the deepest depths of the criminal underworld, control the Street Cleaner as he takes down outlaw scum in search of justice.

Why similar: Ninja 45.2% ★, Platformer 16.8%, Cyberpunk 11.3%, Action 11%, Indie 8.8%

Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 31.4%, Stealth 20.2%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Platformer 12.8%, 2D 6.9%

Shinobi alert! Use your 7 shinobi weapons to survive the bloodshed! Introducing a hard core 2D ninja action game by Hyper-retro graphics.

Why similar: Ninja 86% ★, Action 8.9%, 2D 4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

A pseudo 8-bit action platformer taking a bit of inspiration from film-noir and samurai dramas, iaidoka_interlude applies a few parkour and fighting game influences to mix up familiarity with a little uniquity.

Why similar: Platformer 29.3%, Action 21.6%, Indie 18.7%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Difficult 14.9%

You are Jillian Cleary: an ex-spy on the run, framed for treason and hunted by your former agency. You must move in secret, survive off the grid, and find a way to clear your name. Old friends and new allies will lend their support; but with the eyes of the world upon you, who can you trust?

Why similar: Stealth 43%, Cyberpunk 21.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Indie 8.2%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%

After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn’t have been lost. But nothing could prepare her for what she’ll face in the ancient halls below.

Why similar: Stealth 54.8%, Female Protagonist 20.1%, Action 7.5%, Indie 6.6%, Cyberpunk 5.5%

Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!

Why similar: Turn-Based 54.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, Female Protagonist 7.4%, Turn-Based Combat 7.2%, Indie 5.5%

Casual 2D platformer with a cute ninja girl theme.

Why similar: Ninja 62.7% ★, Platformer 11.6%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Action 9.5%, Indie 4.2%

One try, one kill - a gory TDS game, in which you must clean the areas of ruthless mercenary. The game is a top-down so you could view the battle situation as it's best.

Why similar: Ninja 35.8% ★, Action 21%, Indie 18.1%, Stealth 17.7%, Difficult 7.3%

Ninjas are cool, this is an established fact of the universe. Nazi Robots from space are not cool, they are the complete opposite of cool, and Robot Hitler is out to get you, the world's first ninja. You have 10 seconds to destroy all Nazi Robots in your vicinity. IT. IS. ON.

Why similar: Ninja 61.2% ★, Platformer 17.9%, Action 7%, Indie 6.8%, Difficult 3.6%

In a bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion, Dandara has awoken to reshape the world.

Why similar: Platformer 24.6%, Action 19.2%, Indie 18.8%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Difficult 8.3%

The iconic SHINOBI returns in an all-new 2D action platformer with a unique hand-drawn look created by the team behind the hit brawler Streets of Rage 4.

Why similar: Ninja 60.8% ★, Platformer 19%, Action 13%, 2D 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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: Ninja 55.6% ★, Stealth 25.3%, Female Protagonist 11%, Action 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Ninja Hanrei is a 2D run and gun Platformer game inspired on Ancient Japan but with Super Powers.

Why similar: Ninja 50.7% ★, Platformer 23.6%, Action 13.5%, Indie 5.7%, 2D 5.3%

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 54.4%, Platformer 23.4%, Indie 7.1%, Action 5.7%, Difficult 3.8%

Ninjasoul is a platform action game that combines roguelite with Galaxy warrior demon city. Kunoichi, Tachibana Yachiyo unexpectedly awakened the ability of "death backtracking". She will find the truth in the land that used to be her hometown in the fight and death again and again.

Why similar: Ninja 42.9% ★, Platformer 20.6%, Female Protagonist 14.7%, Action 9.1%, Indie 5.9%

Kinuhime was killed by a ninja demon. Now, Hayate has become obsessed with revenge! But can revenge bring her back?

Why similar: Ninja 65% ★, Action 13.3%, Indie 11.1%, Platformer 10.6%

Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.

Why similar: Ninja 44.7% ★, Platformer 15.9%, Cyberpunk 14.2%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, 2D 5.2%

Leap, slash, splash! You are the overpowered ninja hero Shadow Bug! Save your home forest from the evil factory by slicing monsters to pieces.

Why similar: Ninja 62.4% ★, Platformer 16.9%, Action 8.2%, Indie 7.1%, 2D 5.5%

Aragami is a third person stealth game that casts you as an undead assassin with the power to control the shadows. Teleport to any shadow, become invisible, materialize weapons or even summon a shadow dragon to infiltrate the enemy ranks and dispose of your targets.

Why similar: Ninja 54.9% ★, Stealth 34.4%, Action 4.5%, Indie 3.1%, Great Soundtrack 2.4%

Evade the guards and the defences to escape the evil facility on this click and play stealth game, there will be difficult on your path, young padawan!

Why similar: Ninja 54% ★, Stealth 26.8%, Difficult 7.4%, Indie 4.3%, 2D 3.4%

Play as a ninja through the Sengoku period of Japan. There are many possible ways to assassinate the target and find your own nindou.

Why similar: Ninja 66% ★, Stealth 21.2%, Action 7.2%, Indie 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%