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2025 PC −55 % 17.49 € 7.87 € 10 days left

A fast-paced action roguelite set on a collapsing space station, where fluid blade combat and powerful abilities help you fight eldritch horrors. It blends roguelike, metroidvania and soulslike elements into demanding runs.

What defines Katanaut:

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

The closest matches for Katanaut are AI Limit, Moros Protocol and The Surge. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Katanaut special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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AI Limit

91 %

2025 PCPlayStation 34.99 € 👍 93 % Very positive, 22,025 reviews on Steam

  • Challenging difficulty
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Sci-fi setting

A challenging sci-fi action RPG in the Soulslike mold, where you play the immortal blade-wielder Arrisa exploring the ruins of a post-apocalyptic city. Combat emphasizes precise parrying and dodging.

Moros Protocol

Dark, serious atmosphere

A stylized, pixel-painted first-person roguelike shooter that blends the feel of early action-adventures with fresh mechanics. You fight through a dark sci-fi world of monsters while confronting your own past.

The Surge

Sci-fi setting

A sci-fi Soulslike where you fight through a decaying industrial complex in an exoskeleton. Its hook is targeting and severing specific limbs to loot the exact gear and upgrades you want.

ScourgeBringer

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A blisteringly fast roguelite action platformer where Kyhra chains sword combos, dashes and gunfire through procedurally built machine ruins. Fluid movement and demanding combat are the heart of the game.

Immortal: Unchained

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A punishing third-person action RPG that blends Soulslike combat with firearms. Its grim world mixes Norse mythology with science fiction and demands precise dodging and aiming.

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Sci-fi setting

A fast isometric roguelike shooter where you fight your way out of a chaotic prison as one of the last guards, facing monsters and reanimated former colleagues. Each run brings new builds and frantic firefights.

Valfaris

Dark, serious atmosphere

A brutal 2D action-platformer set in a heavy metal space nightmare, mixing heavy melee, guns and parrying. Gorgeous pixel art and a thundering soundtrack drive the intensity.

Saros

Challenging difficulty

Housemarque's spiritual follow-up to Returnal: a frantic third-person bullet-hell shooter on the eerie world of Carcosa, where each death feeds persistent progression and pushes the cosmic-horror mystery forward.

Hellpoint

Dark, serious atmosphere

A grim sci-fi soulslike set on a decaying space station where dimensions bleed into each other. Interconnected areas, punishing combat and co-op play define the experience.

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