Shadow Blade: Reload similar games & best alternatives

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Shadow Blade: Reload

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2015

Should you play it?

Shadow Blade is an action-platformer set in a visually striking world where the ancient teachings of ninjas and samurai clash upon a modern landscape. Sprint through stages littered with traps, slaying enemies along your path without hesitation as Kuro, the blade of shadow!

What works

  • Tight and responsive controls
  • Fast-paced, fluid platforming
  • Well-designed levels with replay value
  • Level editor and community content
  • Engaging ninja theme and visuals

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and glitches reported
  • Short main story campaign
  • Limited combat depth
  • Lack of stealth element despite ninja theme
  • Technical issues with cutscene codecs

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Savant - Ascent REMIX

  • Freedom Fall

  • TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT

  • Azure Striker Gunvolt

  • RIVE

  • NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound

Less competitive

Games that feels like Shadow Blade: Reload but with less competition against others

  • BLADECHIMERA

  • Terrian Saga: KR-17

  • HAAK

  • Foregone

  • Underhero

  • Skul: The Hero Slayer

More expressive

Games that feels like Shadow Blade: Reload but with more self-expression and customization

  • Wings of Vi

  • Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones

  • Revita

  • Super House of Dead Ninjas

  • Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story™

  • Stealth Bastard Deluxe

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Shadow Blade: Reload. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Shadow Blade: Reload. These titles are not in What to play next.

Shadow Blade: Reload: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026