Games like Children of the Sun
Looking for games like Children of the Sun? indielist surfaces 12 similar indie games by shared genre and Steam tags, ranked by review count. Children of the Sun is a action game from 2024; the closest matches share its tags and audience. The top match by reviews is Crow Country with 7,890 Steam reviews. Each game links to a white-box sales estimate you can audit. Matches are computed from tracked Steam data, not editorial opinion.
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Crow Country
2024 · Action
7,890 reviews · 98% positive
Female ProtagonistThird-Person ShooterHorror
Same: shares Female Protagonist and Third-Person Shooter. Different: leans more into survival horror.
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
2016 · Indie
30,746 reviews · 96% positive
StrategyTacticalReal Time Tactics
Same: shares Strategy and Tactical. Different: leans more into stealth.
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Partisans 1941
2020 · Indie
7,487 reviews · 82% positive
StrategyReal Time TacticsTactical
Same: shares Strategy and Real Time Tactics. Different: leans more into world war ii.
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Buckshot Roulette
2024 · Action
107,163 reviews · 95% positive
DarkHorrorStrategy
Same: shares Dark and Horror. Different: leans more into multiplayer.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
2017 · Action
66,550 reviews · 90% positive
AtmosphericFemale ProtagonistSingleplayer
Same: shares Atmospheric and Female Protagonist. Different: leans more into psychological.
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Choo-Choo Charles
2022 · Action
15,814 reviews · 91% positive
HorrorSingleplayerShooter
Same: shares Horror and Singleplayer. Different: leans more into survival horror.
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Orcs Must Die! 2
2012 · Action
12,890 reviews · 92% positive
ActionStrategyIndie
Same: shares Action and Strategy. Different: leans more into tower defense.
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CULTIC
2022 · Action
7,824 reviews · 97% positive
ShooterActionHorror
Same: shares Shooter and Action. Different: leans more into boomer shooter.
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Phasmophobia
2020 · Action
680,386 reviews · 94% positive
HorrorDark3D
Same: shares Horror and Dark. Different: leans more into online co-op.
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Poppy Playtime
2021 · Action
140,634 reviews · 88% positive
HorrorSingleplayerPuzzle
Same: shares Horror and Singleplayer. Different: leans more into free to play.
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Outer Wilds
2020 · Action
87,474 reviews · 96% positive
AtmosphericPuzzleSingleplayer
Same: shares Atmospheric and Puzzle. Different: leans more into exploration.
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Ravenfield
2017 · Action
76,003 reviews · 97% positive
SingleplayerShooterAction
Same: shares Singleplayer and Shooter. Different: leans more into fps.
Frequently asked questions
- What games are like Children of the Sun?
- indielist matches 12 indie games to Children of the Sun by shared genre and Steam tags, led by Crow Country (7,890 reviews). The list is ranked by review count.
- How are "games like Children of the Sun" chosen?
- By overlap of Steam tags and primary genre with Children of the Sun, weighted by review count as a popularity signal. It is computed from tracked data, not hand-picked, and updates as the catalog grows.