SULFUR similar games & best alternatives

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SULFUR

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One • 2024

Should you play it?

SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.

What works

  • Deep weapon customization
  • Engaging gunplay
  • Unique art style and music
  • Challenging but fair roguelike mechanics
  • Strong replayability and progression

Things to keep in mind

  • Punishing death can feel grindy
  • Performance issues and bugs reported
  • Limited inventory and stash space
  • Lack of recipe book for cooking
  • Some enemy spawn balance problems

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Enter the Chronosphere

  • Delver

  • Cinderia

  • The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot

  • Lunavania

  • ADACA

More intense

Games that feels like SULFUR but with a more intense feel

  • Bunker Punks

  • The Light Brigade

  • Slasher's Keep

  • Beyond Citadel

  • Selaco

  • The Citadel

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Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with SULFUR. 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 SULFUR. These titles are not in What to play next.

SULFUR: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Creativity. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026