Soulslikes like Codex Lost

Miss the tense and dark pull of Codex Lost? These soulslikes offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Cursemark
You are a cursed mage-knight loose in the haunted Unknown Lands, mixing sword swings with spells and runes that rewrite how both work. Each run opens more secrets, shortcuts, and build options, with permanent shrines and forges carrying progress forward. Good for soulslike fans who like hard-won exploration and buildcraft more than checkpoints and stamina bars.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
86% of 630 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
FOUNTAINS
Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of this war-torn empire and escape your captors. Carve your way through a gritty souls-like RPG set in a sprawling, interconnected world.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
85% of 443 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Pale Coins
Grenmark wants you dead, and the Champion's Coin is worth the trouble. Pale Coins is a top-down, old-school action RPG with soulslike bite: punishing bosses, goblin-infested dungeons, and loot that lets you rebuild your champion around melee, ranged, or magic until something clicks.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
93% of 319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Back To Ashes
Explore alternative realities while trying to save Your own from approaching annihilation. Dark fantasy rpg action game which will take You on a journey deep into the realms of Errent.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
74% of 130 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Dread Delusion
Dread Delusion is a retro open-world RPG set among flying continents cursed by undeath, with strange towns, factions and spells to master. Soulslike fans will find the dark fantasy and exploration, but not the punishing combat: fights are simple and easy, even on hard, and charm, locks and lore often matter more than swords.
Dark, Mysterious, Atmospheric
90% of 5,031 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$19.99
Sands of Aura
Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
77% of 594 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Kristala
Kristala is a dark fantasy action RPG where you play a feline warrior fighting a curse over the world of Ailur. Blocking, dodging and deflecting through undead enemies and large bosses, plus feline parkour and spellcasting, give soulslike fans a punishing loop worth learning.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
71% of 500 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$39.99
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
A dark fantasy side-scrolling soulslike set in crumbling Faelduum, where you build an Inquisitor from six classes and learn to dodge, parry, and strike through wolves, vampires, and brutal bosses. Painterly ruins, 60 quests, and deep build crafting reward patient soulslike fans.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
75% of 3,126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 119$39.99
Dimraeth
Dimraeth is a pixel-art action RPG with deliberate stamina-based combat: read telegraphs, then strike, dodge, block or parry. With 48 race-and-class archetypes, more than 300 spells, bosses, loot and 8-player co-op, it gives soulslike fans a build-crafting hunt to chew on.
Fast-paced
77% of 2,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$21.99
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
Alaloth is an isometric action RPG set in the dark fantasy realm of Plamen, with deliberate, punishing combat where one reckless swing gets you killed. You build a champion from four races, pick a Way of Power and skills, recruit companions, and work through dragons, demons and other giant bosses across forests, mountains and ruins.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
71% of 1,586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$34.99
Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014
Plunge into a dark fantasy Action-RPG, harnessing powerful magic alongside a satisfying combat system. When the tyrannical god, Adyr, invades the human realm seeking vengeance for his imprisonment, humanity calls upon an unlikely defender… a convicted sinner named Harkyn.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
58% of 13,431 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20
VOIN
VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash set in plague-ruined dark fantasy realms. You carve through hordes with swords, elemental powers and lootable gear, climb castles and cursed expanses for secrets, then face brutal bosses. Fast, bloody and build-hungry, it gives soulslike fans the bosses, parries and dread without the slow stamina chess.
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
93% of 3,459 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99

Cheaper than Codex Lost

Cursemark

You are a cursed mage-knight loose in the haunted Unknown Lands, mixing sword swings with spells and runes that rewrite how both work.

$14.99

FOUNTAINS

Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of this war-torn empire and escape your captors.

$14.99

Pale Coins

Grenmark wants you dead, and the Champion's Coin is worth the trouble.

$9.99

Dread Delusion

Dread Delusion is a retro open-world RPG set among flying continents cursed by undeath, with strange towns, factions and spells to master.

$19.99

Back To Ashes

Explore alternative realities while trying to save Your own from approaching annihilation.

$11.99

Dimraeth

Dimraeth is a pixel-art action RPG with deliberate stamina-based combat: read telegraphs, then strike, dodge, block or parry.

$21.99

VOIN

VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash set in plague-ruined dark fantasy realms.

$19.99

Breath of Life

Breath of Life - a dark third-person action RPG. You are an Incarnation, born from the Void to tread where the dead cannot rest.

$14.99

Mana Spark

A challenging action RPG with deep souls-like combat and rogue-like elements.

$11.99

Scrabdackle

The magical misadventure of a novice wizard thrown (literally) into the unfamiliar world outside.

$14.99

False Hero

False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike where your mask lets you steal attacks from the enemies you kill and chain them into your own combos.

$15.99

Void Sols

Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow!

$14.99

Hidden gems like Codex Lost

Stonemachia

Zefiro is a living pawn who can change into other chess pieces mid-fight, fighting through Medhelan, a gloomy land hit by the Plague of Angels, to…

$19.99

False Hero

False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike where your mask lets you steal attacks from the enemies you kill and chain them into your own combos.

$15.99

Scrabdackle

The magical misadventure of a novice wizard thrown (literally) into the unfamiliar world outside.

$14.99

Pale Coins

Grenmark wants you dead, and the Champion's Coin is worth the trouble.

$9.99

Spark in the Dark

A grim dungeon crawler that drops you into an endless, pitch-black Dungeon where every fight can be your last.

$16.99

Cursemark

You are a cursed mage-knight loose in the haunted Unknown Lands, mixing sword swings with spells and runes that rewrite how both work.

$14.99

Void Sols

Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow!

$14.99

VOIN

VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash set in plague-ruined dark fantasy realms.

$19.99

FOUNTAINS

Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of this war-torn empire and escape your captors.

$14.99

Dimraeth

Dimraeth is a pixel-art action RPG with deliberate stamina-based combat: read telegraphs, then strike, dodge, block or parry.

$21.99

Breath of Life

Breath of Life - a dark third-person action RPG. You are an Incarnation, born from the Void to tread where the dead cannot rest.

$14.99

Blades of Fire

Blades of Fire is a dark fantasy adventure where you play Aran de Lira, the last warrior who can forge true steel.

$39.99

Newest soulslikes like Codex Lost