Games Like The Shaman's Ark

The Shaman's Ark

A dark metroidvania where your shaman drum is the only weapon against the Abyss. The music of the ancients becomes your blade, and every battle is a ritual on the edge of death.

★ SALT AND SANCTUARY ★ DEATH'S GAMBIT: AFTERLIFE ★ SOLATERIA ★ DEEPENING FIRE ★ UNWORTHY ★ GRIME ★ ENDER MAGNOLIA: BLOOM IN THE MIST ★ SEKIRO™: SHADOWS DIE TWICE - GOTY EDITION ★ MANDRAGORA: WHISPERS OF THE WITCH TREE ★ SLASH OR DIE ★ HOLLOW KNIGHT ★ THERE IS NO LIGHT 616 ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Salt and Sanctuary

89% 👍 OF 21K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Recover Lost Salt
  • …Mix Weapons and Magic
  • …Unlock Island Shortcuts
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Death's Gambit: Afterlife

81% 👍 OF 5.6K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Rematch Heroic Bosses
  • …Mix Combat Builds
  • …Unlock Hidden Routes
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Solateria

83% 👍 OF 780
About This Game

Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Parry, Then Counter
  • …Find the Missing King
  • …Unlock Hidden Paths
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Deepening Fire

72% 👍 OF 639
About This Game

Deepening Fire is a side-scrolling action adventure game. Choose different classes, with appropriate equipment, explore hidden complex map, defeat powerful enemies, expose the conspiracy of the chaotic world, experience the souls-like battle

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Parry Enemy Strikes
  • …Explore Hidden Routes
  • …Switch Combat Classes
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Unworthy

81% 👍 OF 860
About This Game

UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania without jumping. Explore a grim universe, discover new weapons and abilities, and defeat the vile creatures that plague the land.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Fight Without Jumping
  • …Switch Weapon Strategies
  • …Track Hidden Secrets
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GRIME

85% 👍 OF 6.7K
About This Game

Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Absorb Foes to Evolve
  • …Parry to Strike
  • …Wield Living Weapons
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ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist

95% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …walk straight through enemies and only dodge their actual attacks.
  • …use a map that marks explored rooms, cleared areas, and even hints at hidden or incomplete sections so you always know where secrets are.
  • …toggle custom difficulty modifiers all the way up to no healing and no-hit, then take the same bosses on with totally different rules.
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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition

94% 👍 OF 102K
About This Game

Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …come back to life mid-fight and keep swinging.
  • …stomp a spear thrust by stepping on the attacker's weapon.
  • …get ambushed by a giant ape that grabs its own poop and throws it at you.
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Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree

76% 👍 OF 3.9K
About This Game

Slay your way in Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree, an epic action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. Battle monsters, master six unique Classes, craft hundreds of useful items, and explore the secrets of an expansive, interconnected world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Mix Class Talents
  • …Unlock Hidden Routes
  • …Dodge and Parry
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Hollow Knight

97% 👍 OF 564K
About This Game

Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …jump into the minds of characters and enemies to hear their thoughts and dig up secrets that aren't told in normal dialogue
  • …learn boss fights with no health bar, reading their patterns until you can tell you're winning just from how they move
  • …take on a near-mythic platforming gauntlet of saws and spikes that can take hours, then reach a hidden payoff at the end
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There Is No Light 616

82% 👍 OF 262
About This Game

Battle your way through the horrors and face the greater threats of these miserable lands! There is No Light 616 is a free version of the action-adventure There is No Light with 3 locations, a boss-fight, and an exclusive arena mode!

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