Karate Survivor similar games & best alternatives

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Karate Survivor

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

Become a martial arts master in this survivor-like roguelite inspired by action movies of the ‘80s. Use your fists, feet, and the environment to fight off relentless thugs. Master powerful combos, enhance your skills, and remember: everything around you is a weapon!

What works

  • Unique combo-based combat system
  • Nostalgic 80s/90s martial arts theme
  • Addictive progression and unlocks
  • Creative use of environment in combat
  • Excellent value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content with only five levels
  • Some bugs and occasional hitbox issues
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Unlock system can be grindy and rng dependent
  • Lack of deep customization or story

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Keeper's Toll

  • The Slormancer

  • Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded

  • Crafty Survivors

  • Spell Disk

  • Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot

Less story-driven

Games that feels like Karate Survivor but with less narrative immersion

  • Soulstone Survivors: Prologue

  • Magic Rune Stone

  • Pesticide Not Required

  • Journey to the West Survivor

  • Infinite Tao

  • Cat Bait

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Wall World 2

  • Kingsgrave

  • Wall World

  • The Last Gas Station

  • Beholder: Conductor

Similarity map

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).

Karate Survivor: 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 Relaxation, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026