Top rated hand-drawn soulslike games
Brush-lined worlds soften brutal timing combat in these top rated hand-drawn soulslike games. Hollow Knight, Salt and Sanctuary and Tails of Iron ask you to study foes, time evasions and guards, and watch stamina while pushing through linked ruins and kingdoms. Each death sends you back to a checkpoint to adjust charms, weapons or routes and face the same boss again with steadier rhythm.
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Hollow Knight
A hand-drawn 2D action adventure through Hallownest, a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. You dodge, dash, and slash through twisting caverns and ruined cities, learn 30 bosses the hard way, and forge your own path with spells, skills, and charms. Worth playing for the fights and the fall.
96% of 509,119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,265$14.99Cuphead
Cuphead is a run-and-gun built around boss fights, drawn like a 1930s cartoon with hand-drawn animation, watercolor backgrounds and original jazz. You learn each boss the hard way, then beat your debt to the devil one pattern at a time. For soulslike fans, it gives that same loop of study, die, adjust and win.
96% of 201,152 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,428$19.99ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
Decades after ENDER LILIES, you wake as Lilac, an Attuner who purifies feral Homunculi and then borrows their weapons. A sorrowful 2D action RPG across factories, academies and ruined cities, with 30 companion skills to mix, adjustable difficulty, and music by Mili. A gentler door into soulslikes.
95% of 17,428 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 101$13.74Rain World
You are a small slugcat in a ruined world where almost everything wants to eat you. Hunt food with a spear, learn how each predator thinks, and reach shelter before the rain drowns everything. Brutal, strange, and hard to put down once its ecosystem clicks.
94% of 48,009 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,343$24.99Nine Sols
Nine Sols is a hand-drawn 2D action-platformer with Sekiro-style deflection combat, made for soulslike fans who want hard bosses and a strange world to unravel. As the vengeful Yi, you slash, deflect, and stick Taoist talismans to enemies to blow them up, while hunting the 9 Sols across New Kunlun.
94% of 41,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 521$29.99ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
A dark 2D action RPG where Lily, a young woman waking in a ruined church, crosses the rain-blighted kingdom of Land's End with purified knights fighting for her. Expect pattern-heavy bosses, careful dodging, and new powers that open sealed paths. Worth playing for its sorrowful story, hand-drawn ruins, and Mili soundtrack.
93% of 43,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95$9.99Hyper Light Drifter
A sick Drifter with a light sword walks into a ruined land full of lost tech, vicious enemies, and bosses that will flatten a frail body fast. Hyper Light Drifter is worth playing for its fast dodge-and-slash combat, branching exploration, and hand-animated pixel world that tells its sad story without words.
93% of 15,676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99Withering Rooms
A challenging 2.5D horror RPG in a Victorian mansion that rearranges itself every night. Sneak past overgrown undead, trap ghosts with hex spells, and build a character from what you scavenge. Death stings less than it should, because rituals let you keep what matters.
96% of 1,267 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$24.99Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
A short 2D soulslike where Kaho, a priestess from Lun, crosses a cursed land to reach the Queen. Melee combos, dodge rolls, arrows, and boss magic carry fast, punishing fights, with manual saves that make every run to the next bell matter.
93% of 10,578 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.99Blasphemous 2
The Penitent One wakes in a strange new land to end the Miracle's cycle, cutting through grotesque monsters and twisted bosses across a gothic labyrinth. With three swappable weapons, brutal executions and hard-learned patterns, it is penance with better footwork.
91% of 17,533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 269$29.99TUNIC
A small fox with a short sword in a bright, ruined land that still fights like a soulslike: careful stamina, timed dodges and parries, hard bosses, and shrines that heal you while bringing enemies back. Worth it for the loop of dying, learning patterns, and pushing a little farther each time.
91% of 17,014 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 192$29.99UNSIGHTED
Alma wakes in ruined Arcadia with a sword, a ticking life force, and robots turning mindless around her. UNSIGHTED pairs fast top-down combat built on well-timed parries and stamina management with tough bosses and branching exploration. Learn patterns, build your loadout, and decide who gets the anima to keep ticking.
93% of 1,896 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99
