Games like BOOK OF HOURS
If BOOK OF HOURS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cultist Simulator, First Age and Dance of Theseus — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafting your own enlightenment, lore feels meticulously curated and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. Players take on the role of a librarian restoring a crumbling occult library by a winter sea, building a collection of grimoires and arcana. The game combines deck-building mechanics with resource management, crafting chains, inventory systems, and skill progression. Reviewers note the lore feels meticulously curated, and players describe the experience as atmospheric, contemplative, and cozy, with worldbuilding that rewards patience. Developed and published by Weather Factory in 2023, it is a solo-only experience designed for sit-down sessions with a massive length. Priced at $13.74 USD, it runs at a chill difficulty and carries a 91% positive rating from 2576 Steam reviews, verified on Steam Deck.
About BOOK OF HOURS: Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Players who liked BOOK OF HOURS also play
Steam players who put hours into BOOK OF HOURS also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Cultist Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Top pick for BOOK OF HOURS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
First Age
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for BOOK OF HOURS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with BOOK OF HOURS.
A turn-based strategy card game set in the Neolithic Age. Sacrifice villagers, tame mammoths, and build powerful card synergies to lead your tribe through the threat of the Dark Ages. Will your people stand the test of time?
Dance of Theseus
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for BOOK OF HOURS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Dance of Theseus is a dress-up life sim set in the glamorous world of monster ballrooms. Craft new body parts, assemble yourself, and use dance moves to outshine everyone. Fit in. Stand out. Make friends. Fall in love. How many parts will you replace before finding your way back home?
Take That Mainstage!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for BOOK OF HOURS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
It's 1992 in Emerald City. The world screams for change. You made the leap, now fulfill your destiny and change the world. Build your band, write real music you perform, manage relationships, and reach the top of the charts. In this hybrid life sim, be the one to Take That Mainstage!
Felicity
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for BOOK OF HOURS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Felicity is a "live your life" deckbuilder. Choose your aspirations and achieve them to shape your life in unique ways while facing random events! Build your deck and roll dice to manage resources. How much will you be able to achieve in just one lifetime?
Potionomics
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, time management and a cozy mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Ranked #7 for BOOK OF HOURS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Sultan's Game
WHY THIS
Shares time management, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Ranked #8 for BOOK OF HOURS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Reviewers mention these as similar to BOOK OF HOURS
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Chants of Sennaar
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Reviewers of BOOK OF HOURS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with BOOK OF HOURS.
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
Citizen Sleeper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Reviewers of BOOK OF HOURS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with BOOK OF HOURS.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Cultist Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Reviewers of BOOK OF HOURS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Travelling At Night
WHY THIS
Reviewers of BOOK OF HOURS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with BOOK OF HOURS.
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Your Chronicle
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Reviewers of BOOK OF HOURS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with BOOK OF HOURS.
"Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 3,000 unique story actions and it's still growing.
Obsidian
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Reviewers of BOOK OF HOURS cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Venture into the surreal worlds of Obƨidian...if you dare. In Obƨidian, your life is in your hands, so tread carefully. Forget everything you know about existence and prepare to be flipped on your ear. Welcome to the unknown...
Blue Prince
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a mysterious mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Reviewers of BOOK OF HOURS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with BOOK OF HOURS.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
1000xRESIST
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Reviewers of BOOK OF HOURS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with BOOK OF HOURS.
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below BOOK OF HOURS at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under BOOK OF HOURS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under BOOK OF HOURS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with BOOK OF HOURS.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under BOOK OF HOURS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BOOK OF HOURS.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under BOOK OF HOURS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BOOK OF HOURS.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under BOOK OF HOURS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BOOK OF HOURS.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under BOOK OF HOURS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under BOOK OF HOURS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BOOK OF HOURS.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under BOOK OF HOURS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with BOOK OF HOURS.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with BOOK OF HOURS.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with BOOK OF HOURS.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Cultist Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Potionomics
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, time management and a cozy mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Sultan's Game
WHY THIS
Shares time management, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with BOOK OF HOURS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with BOOK OF HOURS.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Frequently asked about BOOK OF HOURS
- Is BOOK OF HOURS verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — BOOK OF HOURS is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does BOOK OF HOURS cost?
- BOOK OF HOURS is listed on Steam at 13.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to BOOK OF HOURS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside BOOK OF HOURS are Cultist Simulator, First Age, Dance of Theseus.
- Who developed BOOK OF HOURS?
- BOOK OF HOURS was developed by Weather Factory.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on BOOK OF HOURS.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.