Highlights
- TUNIC is an isometric action game with a tiny fox protagonist, perfect for fans of Hyper Light Drifter.
- Brume is a classically styled adventure game that challenges players to explore a deserted island.
- Featherfall is a dark-action RPG where players take on the role of a bird and solve mysteries in an expansive forest.
With hundreds of thousands of games to choose from, Itch.io is the one-stop shop for beautiful, terrifying, cozy, adventurous, mysterious, indie games of all kinds. Whether players yearn for a simpler time in one of the various farming simulators available or they’re looking for a spooky hack-n-slash for a dark and stormy night, Itch.io has what everyone wants — including lots of Soulslike games, where the gameplay is difficult (or frustrating, at times), skills-based, and hard to master, akin to its namesake, the Dark Souls series.
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There are almost three hundred games tagged as “soulslike” on Itch.io, all different in art style, music, and plot, but alike in their action role-playing genre. Some are totally free, whereas some cost a pretty penny. The question is, which will have the more impatient players throwing controllers and mice at their unsuspecting computer screens?
8 TUNIC
A Tiny Fox Protagonist In A Zelda-Inspired Soulslike
In this isometric action game, players tackle colossal beasts, mysterious legends, and magical powers while reconstructing the game’s Instruction Manual — a game mechanic and tutorial hunt all in one.
Playing as a little fox on an epic quest, TUNIC is perfect for fans of Hyper Light Drifter and other games with adorable protagonists. This game in many ways put Itch.io on the map and earned itself a few Game Awards nominations as a result.
Where To Find TUNIC
TUNIC is available on Windows and macOS.
7 Brume
A Classically Styled Adventure
Inspired by classic adventure games of old, Brume challenges players to explore a deserted island on their way to an abandoned stronghold.
Knights, slugs, beetles, and ghosts assail the player, but with powerful weapons and three different challenging modes of gameplay, Brume is a short and sweet story for fans of Death’s Door and Titan Souls.
Where To Find Brume
Brume is available on Windows and macOS.
6 Featherfall
Players take on the role of a bird freshly hatched from their egg in Featherfall, a dark action RPG that takes place in an expansive forest. In order to solve the mysteries of this abandoned setting, players need to upgrade their stats and gear to defeat seven difficult, but strangely adorable, bosses — and find more than thirty different items that can help unravel the story.
Featherfall is a great game for players who enjoy Little Nightmares, with its tiny but mighty protagonists.
Where To Find Featherfall
Featherfall is available on Windows and macOS.
5 White Lavender
Collect Fun Hats And Brew Tea
With its deceptively adorable art style and has fun hats to collect, White Lavender’s premise is simple: brew a special tea to save the protagonist’s sister.
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Melee and magic both feature in the difficult battles versus giant snails and magic frogs, and each run can be different with player traits to pile points into. For fans of Cuphead and Hollow Knight, White Lavender is a perfect, pastel-themed parallel.
Where To Find White Lavender
White Lavender is in development, and the demo is available on Windows and macOS.
4 LIGHTDANCER
A Low-Commitment Soulslike With Great Gameplay
As a Lightdancer, players wield their bows and shed (or shoot) light on their journey to restore the balance of light and shadow. This game is short and sweet, boasting an average session time of just a few minutes.
LIGHTDANCER is a great foray into soulslike games for those unfamiliar with the genre's difficult gameplay and puzzle mechanics. Just be careful not to burn anything important along the way.
Where To Find LIGHTDANCER
LIGHTDANCER is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
3 GRIME
Gorgeous Art And Gruesome Combat
GRIME’s surrealist, gruesome art style is immediately eye-catching, and the combat is no different; weapons can mutate form during fights, adding variety and surprise to each battle that players face in this otherworldly game.
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Lovingly rendered in “unearthly 3D”, GRIME is a beautiful, difficult, and sometimes gross soulslike that’s perfect for fans of the Castlevaniaseries, featuring platforming and plenty of gory bosses to destroy.
Where To Find GRIME
GRIME is available on Windows and macOS, with DLC titled GRIME: Colors of Rot currently in development.
2 Sang: The Desert Blade
A Demo With Stunning Combat
While Sang: The Desert Blade is still in development, the demo flexes its intense battle gameplay and immediately catches the eye. Players take on the role of Sang, a wolf on the hunt for her kin with the help of her ominous visions of death and destruction.
With spells to cast and weapons to upgrade, Sang will be a great game for fans of Hades, as with each death in the game, more story unlocks as players learn from their mistakes.
Where To Find Sang: The Desert Blade
Sang: The Desert Blade’s demo is only available on PC.
1 Strato-Spear
Winner Of The 32-Bit 2022 Game Jam
Strato-Spear may take less than half an hour to play, but it proves itself to be strong in both gameplay and story — so strong that it won the 32-Bit 2022 Game Jam. Players control VT, separated from her spaceship on a faraway planet.
In order to get back to her ship, VT will need to fight through an island of hostile aliens… which shouldn’t be a problem, if she only had her spear. Strato-Spear pays homage to the Super Metroid series and classic adventure games, a clear passion project from a development team of just one person.
Where To Find Strato-Spear
Strato-Spear is only available on Windows.
