Games like Book of the Old
If Book of the Old is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trial Of Destiny, Fall Of The Son and One Step From Eden — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About Book of the Old: Roguelike shooting game with an autochesslike card system. Now what you get after cleaning a room not only depends on your luck -- it depends on the combination of planning, decision, and luck. What is your road, you decide.
Players who liked Book of the Old also play
Steam players who put hours into Book of the Old 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.
Trial Of Destiny
WHY THIS
Top pick for Book of the Old fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Trial Of Destiny is a unique mix of Action RPG + Deck building roguelike + Bullet hells where you play as Glen, the hero from the different world, summoned to save Gaia from the destructions of The Destiny.
Fall Of The Son
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Book of the Old fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Book of the Old.
Fall Of The Son is a roguelike deckbuilder. Assemble powerful strategies to battle through hordes of enemies - with 4 playable characters and over 200 unique cards at your disposal. Do you have the grit and determination to make it to the end and face off against The Son?
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Book of the Old fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
GAME (not) OVER
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Book of the Old fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
GAME (not) OVER is a survivors-like with deck-building elements, blending both genres to offer a fresh game. Lost in the world of video games, use cards to summon hero allies, and defend yourself from the hordes of villains who want to claim their revenge on you!
元卡牌2 - MetaCard2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Book of the Old fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Book of the Old.
Hello everyone, this is my second game "Meta Card 2". Based on the rich card entries of the first generation, it innovatively incorporates the concept of projectiles. Through the strategic combination of cards and projectile targeting, the control of movement is replaced.
Cthulhu Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Book of the Old fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Book of the Old.
《不可名状的地牢》是一款以克苏鲁的呼唤跑团为背景的 战棋+DBG+Roguelike游戏，通过战棋与DBG结合，造成与众不同的全新体验。并且结合了跑团的元素。你将带领你的角色卡，突破这个迷一般的地牢。本游戏提供非常开放的自定义Mod支持，可以自己制作自定义 角色，敌人，卡牌和地图等。
Staff Only
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Book of the Old fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Book of the Old.
A card battler where you play cards by solving a puzzle with those cards! Play on the same board (literally) as your enemies.
Void Grimm
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Book of the Old fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Void Grimm is a real-time roguelike deckbuilder - In Space! Fight your way through waves of enemy spaceships. Your survival in the fast-paced battles requires quick thinking even at increased adrenaline levels. Optimize your deck, gather your crew, and utilize card synergies to master your runs.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Book of the Old at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Book of the Old on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Book of the Old.
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 ~50% under Book of the Old on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Book of the Old on Steam right now. Shares Action with Book of the Old.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Book of the Old on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Book of the Old.
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 ~50% under Book of the Old on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Book of the Old.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Book of the Old on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Book of the Old on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Book of the Old on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Book of the Old.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Book of the Old.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
NERTS! Online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Book of the Old.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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More from MingCang Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by MingCang Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Book Of Hiro
WHY THIS
Another title from MingCang Studio, the studio behind Book of the Old.
“The Book of Hiro” is a 3D visual puzzle game where players solve challenges and puzzles using illusions and perspective to find the hidden key in the map. The game tells the story of a brave villager named Hiro who was ordered to meet the king and encountered various challenges and puzzles.
时间之神的猫
WHY THIS
Another title from MingCang Studio, the studio behind Book of the Old. Shares Indie with Book of the Old.
Use four-dimensional space-time thinking and time travel ability to eat the fish within the specified time and return to the original position, while avoiding the guards' pursuit.
The Book Of Hiro - Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from MingCang Studio, the studio behind Book of the Old. Shares Indie with Book of the Old.
“The Book Of Hiro - Prologue” is a 3D visual puzzle game where players solve challenges and puzzles using illusions and perspective to find the hidden key. The game tells the story of a brave villager named Hiro who was ordered to meet the king and encountered various challenges and puzzles.
Frequently asked about Book of the Old
- How much does Book of the Old cost?
- Book of the Old is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Book of the Old?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Book of the Old are Trial Of Destiny, Fall Of The Son, One Step From Eden.
- Who developed Book of the Old?
- Book of the Old was developed by MingCang Studio.
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 the Old.
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