Games like Black Myth Wukong: the boss, not the world

Journey to the West hands Game Science a monster per chapter, and that is the shape of Black Myth: Wukong: a named boss, a corridor to the next one, and a staff you have spent an hour relearning in between. Games like Black Myth Wukong therefore live or die on the fight, not the world. What made the Destined One's run memorable — the deflect window, the transformations, the sense that one more attempt would do it — is combat design. Seven games below replace some part of it, and none asks more of your graphics card than Wukong does.

The lowest price we logged for each game between 26 September and 31 October 2026, read on 7 November 2026. Earlier readings are excluded because the feeds then still carried Steam accounts, console keys and region-locked keys, so the low on a game page can be lower than the figure here. Minimum GPU is as each game's Steam system requirements list it. Live prices sit on each game page.

Game	Minimum GPU?	Low	Date	Store
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice	GTX 760	$27.61	12 Oct 2026	CJS CD Keys
The First Berserker: Khazan	GTX 970	$22.79	28 Oct 2026	Loaded
Lies of P	GTX 960	$19.87	13 Oct 2026	Driffle INC
Nioh 2: Complete Edition	GTX 970	$14.79	12 Oct 2026	Loaded
Elden Ring	GTX 1060 3GB	$49.14	15 Oct 2026	CJS CD Keys
Ghost of Tsushima	GTX 960	$29.21	29 Oct 2026	Driffle INC
Sifu	GT 640	$6.32	24 Oct 2026	Eneba

Games like Black Myth Wukong that keep the boss list

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

FromSoftware built the thing Wukong is measured against, and Siliconera opens its list with it. The one-armed wolf has no build to fall back on: no armour weight, no spell loadout, no summons. There is a sword, a set of prosthetic tools, and a posture bar that fills when you block at the right moment and empties when you do not. Fights are won by refusing to retreat, which is the opposite instinct to everything else in this genre.

The GOTY edition adds Reflection and Gauntlet of Strength, two boss-challenge modes that let you refight the whole roster without replaying the game around it — if the bosses were the point of Wukong for you, that is the single most relevant feature on this list. Sengoku-era Ashina also rewards vertical traversal and stealth, so it reads nothing like a corridor.

Steam has it at 95% from 356,524 reviews. Something worth knowing before you shop: only three sellers in our data carry the GOTY edition, and across 20 dated readings the gap between the dearest and the cheapest came to more than half the game's list price — which shop you use matters more here than when you buy.

Posture, not health, decides these fights. Blocking at the wrong moment is still a mistake. (Official Steam screenshot)

The First Berserker: Khazan

Neople made the closest structural match to Wukong of anything released since. Khazan is a hardcore action RPG set 800 years before Dungeon Fighter Online, it is built around strategic boss encounters rather than a world to wander, and its own description leads with exactly that. You pick a weapon, learn a long combo, and spend the game on named fights with gear sets slotted in between.

Two things separate it from Wukong. Skills can be reset and respecced anywhere, at any time, which means a boss that walls you is a reason to rebuild rather than a reason to grind — Wukong's spell choices are far stickier. And death is cheaper: fall, go back to the spot, recover the Lacrima you dropped, keep the experience. Neople's own copy frames this as mastering combat instead of grinding, and it shows in how quickly the game lets you try again.

At 85% from 32,766 Steam reviews it is the least loved of the seven, and the complaints are about repetition rather than craft. Khazan is the youngest game here, and our 19 readings for it all sit within about four dollars.

Neople's own launch trailer, which is mostly boss footage — a fair representation of the game.

Transformations swapped for a weapon you learn

Lies of P

Krat is a Belle Époque city gone rotten, and NEOWIZ's answer to Wukong's transformations is assembly: the game asks you to weave weapon combinations together and to lean on the Legion Arms bolted to your puppet body rather than on spells. It sits at 92% from 83,339 Steam reviews, and Lies of P has barely moved in our window — 27 readings inside a forty-cent band.

Nioh 2: Complete Edition

Yokai Shift is the closest any of these come to turning into something else mid-fight: Koei Tecmo lets you take a demon form, and enemies answer by raising a Dark Realm that changes the rules of the arena while it lasts. The studio calls the whole thing a brutal masocore action RPG, which is unusually accurate marketing.

The Complete Edition folds in all three expansions — The Tengu's Disciple, Darkness in the Capital, The First Samurai — which is a great deal of game for the row it occupies. Steam has Nioh 2 at 87% from 50,708 reviews, lower than the rest because its difficulty curve is genuinely hostile early.

Yokai Shift turns the player into the monster for a few seconds, which Wukong's transformations only gesture at. (Official Steam screenshot)

Chapters opened out into a province

Elden Ring

Leaving is the mechanic. Wukong funnels you from one chapter boss to the next; FromSoftware's open world lets a wall become a detour, and both of the lists below name it for precisely that reason. The trade is focus: the bosses are no less demanding, but the pacing between them is yours to set, and the Lands Between will happily let you wander into something forty levels above you.

It holds 93% from 1,157,174 Steam reviews, the largest sample here by an order of magnitude. Elden Ring is the dearest row in the table, and that is not an accident: its price habit in our data is to stay well above its own floor, so most of what looks like a cut elsewhere is a reseller rather than a sale.

Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut

Jin Sakai's Tsushima is the gentlest landing here. Sucker Punch built an open island around duels, and the Director's Cut is also where the PC work sits — unlocked framerates, ultrawide support up to 48:9, DLSS 3, FSR 3 and XeSS. Combat is readable rather than punishing, which makes it the pick if the Wukong boss you gave up on soured the whole game. Steam has it at 94% from 97,121 reviews; we went further into the PC version in our verdict on it.

Timing instead of spectacle

Sifu

Five fights, one kung fu student, and an amulet that ages you every time you die. Sloclap strips out loot, levels and transformations: progression is your own reading of an opponent who, as the studio puts it, does not wait their turn or broadcast their intent. A nightclub, a gallery and a tower are the arenas, and the free Arenas expansion added 15 more. At 92% from 28,968 Steam reviews, Sifu is the one row here that costs less than a cinema ticket.

Ageing is the only progression system. Dying at 70 ends the run for good. (Official Steam screenshot)

Tsushima is an island rather than a corridor, and the duels are optional in a way Wukong's never are. (Official Steam screenshot)

One name both of these lists lead with

Siliconera and Insider Gaming both put Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty high up, and on setting they are right — it is Chinese fantasy with deflection at the centre. It gets no row here because Steam has it at 50% positive from 29,460 reviews, which is the lowest figure of anything considered for this list, and a recommendation has to clear a higher bar than a resemblance.

Game Science's own final trailer for Wukong, the game these seven are measured against.

The Destined One's next road

Sekiro. It is the nearest match in the ways that matter — one weapon, no build to hide behind, a posture bar instead of a health race — and its Gauntlet modes exist to let you refight the roster, which is the part of Wukong people replay. Khazan is the alternative if you would rather keep the gear and the respec screen, and Ghost of Tsushima is the one to pick if the fights are what put you off.

On Tsushima specifically: across 31 dated readings its best price stayed inside about a dollar and a half, and its price habit in our data is to sit near that level rather than stray from it. As settled as this gets.

Before you buy any of the cheap rows, what a keyshop actually is is ten minutes well spent, and what a historical low really means explains why the figures above carry dates. For more in this direction, the soulslike round-up goes wider, and since every row here runs on less than Wukong does, games for a low-end PC is the other list worth a look. Our own Black Myth: Wukong page keeps the live figures for the game you have just finished.

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