Games like The Handbook
If The Handbook is your kind of game, the closest matches are Avaroth Online, Monsters of Seabrook and Kid Mystic: Enchanted Edition — 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 The Handbook: Embark in a chaotic quest in a fantasy world to save a small town from certain destruction. Play as the great wizard Tim in an RPG while learning powerful spells and leveling your character. Explore the world, find its secrets and unravel the story behind The Handbook.
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Steam players who put hours into The Handbook 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.
Avaroth Online
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Top pick for The Handbook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
Avaroth Online is an open-world MMORPG with PvP combat, character progression, and exploration across lands inspired by Argentina. Gather resources, build, and face enemies and players alike in a hostile, persistent world.
Monsters of Seabrook
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Second-strongest match for The Handbook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Handbook.
Capture, train, and fuse together minions into your ultimate weapon against foes and the gym leaders of Seabrook. Become the resident Monster Expert and collect them all!
Kid Mystic: Enchanted Edition
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Third-strongest match for The Handbook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Handbook.
Kid Mystic never paid attention in magic school except when they were discussing fireballs, so now he's the only one who can save Tulipton in this action-packed RPG which was hailed as The Best Fantasy Role Playing Game For The PC by (checks notes...) its own box.
Forsaken Realms: Vahrin's Call
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Ranked #4 for The Handbook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Handbook.
Adventure awaits in this narrative driven fantasy action-RPG. The war-torn city of Vahrin stands before you on the brink of collapse and in desperate need of aid. As a mercenary in search of your next…opportunity, will you answer Vahrin’s Call?
Hogwarts Legacy
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Ranked #5 for The Handbook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Handbook.
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
WYS
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Ranked #6 for The Handbook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Handbook.
In this open-world RPG, you must choose a path to follow: merchant, adventurer, or politician. But beware, your choices will affect the world you inhabit. Embark on the adventure alone or with friends, and craft your story that will change this world.
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
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Ranked #7 for The Handbook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Handbook.
Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.
Dragon's Dogma 2
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Ranked #8 for The Handbook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Handbook.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Handbook at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under The Handbook on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~67% under The Handbook on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Handbook.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under The Handbook on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under The Handbook on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under The Handbook on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Handbook.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Sally Face - Episode One
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Priced ~50% under The Handbook on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~50% under The Handbook on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Handbook.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Handbook.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Handbook.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about The Handbook
- How much does The Handbook cost?
- The Handbook is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Handbook?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Handbook are Avaroth Online, Monsters of Seabrook, Kid Mystic: Enchanted Edition.
- Who developed The Handbook?
- The Handbook was developed by Ivories Studios.
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 The Handbook.
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