Retro soulslike hidden gems
Heavy dodge timing and old sprites run through these retro soulslike hidden gems, and you feel it in every cautious step. Tearscape sends you through linked dungeons where each swing leaves you open, Tombwater mixes western dread with close melee trades, and Lunacid pulls you into first-person tunnels built on careful guarding and footwork. Expect to study patterns, lose progress, and push a little further each run.
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Tombwater
A top-down Soulslike set in a cursed Wild West mining town. Slash and shoot Eldritch beasts with guns, blades and spells, explore a dense interconnected world full of secrets, and uncover what drove Tombwater mad. Grim pixel art, lonely guitar, and over twenty gruesome bosses.
91% of 316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99Tearscape
As a hunter, you explore a dark, interconnected world filled with dungeons, relying on precise combat to survive. Battle grotesque monsters, expand your arsenal, and uncover hidden paths in a non-linear, pixel art journey.
89% of 353 Steam reviews are positive$14.99JUMP KING QUEST
A vertical dark-fantasy climb where every ledge is a fight. You charge each jump, trade blows with enemies and bosses using soulslike moves and fighting-game inputs, build your mudman from 90+ weapons and four strange attributes, and keep climbing toward the Smoking Hot Babe at The Top.
88% of 1,268 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$14.99Rubinite
You study each Bloodstained monster, use Focus to expose its weak point, then land the lethal strike. Short, hard, and full of heart.
94% of 4,554 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$19.99Verho - Curse of Faces
A first-person dark RPG in the King's Field tradition, set in the land of Yariv after 264 years of isolation. You wear a mask to survive the Curse of Faces, where a revealed face means death, and hunt for the source of the scourge — or decide to use its power yourself.
91% of 1,286 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$19.99Crimson Capes
Engage in fluid 2D pixel art swordplay, hunt down witches, fight monsters and experience the age of high adventure. Enter the guild of the Crimson Capes and explore a fantasy world of Sword and Sorcery.
87% of 184 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Infinitevania
Infinitevania is a retro-styled 2D metroidvania where you travel between worlds, kill powerful creatures, and absorb their powers to destroy the Core. Bosses demand pattern-reading and build-tweaking, but without a harsh death penalty, so soulslike fans get the learning curve with less suffering.
92% of 306 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99Solateria
Solateria is a hand-drawn action metroidvania built around parries: learn an enemy's rhythm, deflect at the last instant, and answer with a hard counter. As a small fire warrior hunting the vanished King, you roam a fallen sunlit world, take down plague-infected bosses, and shape your build with Parts, Core Stones, and cooking.
82% of 769 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$13.99FOUNTAINS
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.
85% of 443 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99A Song Of Sunlight
An RPG set in a distant, lonely future. Follow Arem, a young man lured from his small island community to explore the desolate megastructure beneath it: “The Well.” With the simple goal of finding the exit, Arem will burden himself with something more terrible than he ever thought possible.
98% of 185 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreePale 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.
93% of 319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99NanoApostle
NanoApostle is a dark sci-fi boss rush where you play Anita, a girl fused with the sentient nanomachine Apostle, fighting prototype bio-weapons to escape a research facility. Fights are fast, reaction-based duels built around dodging, parrying, slashes, projectiles, and breaking glowing Destruction Points for heavy damage. Short, sharp, and built for soulslike fans who like learning a boss cold.
94% of 1,224 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
