Games like The Craft of the Samurai
If The Craft of the Samurai is your kind of game, the closest matches are 牛头镇的快乐故事, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and Svoboda 1945: Liberation — 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.
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牛头镇的快乐故事
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Top pick for The Craft of the Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Craft of the Samurai.
This is a realistic visual game (AVG). 10-year-old Wang Nan plans to go to the provincial capital during the summer vacation, but many incredible things suddenly happen in the town, and many of them are related to him... So where should he go?
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
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Second-strongest match for The Craft of the Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
Svoboda 1945: Liberation
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Third-strongest match for The Craft of the Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Craft of the Samurai.
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
Astrologaster
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Ranked #4 for The Craft of the Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Craft of the Samurai.
Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
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Ranked #5 for The Craft of the Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Craft of the Samurai.
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
Subsurface Circular
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Ranked #6 for The Craft of the Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Craft of the Samurai.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
1348 Ex Voto
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Ranked #7 for The Craft of the Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Craft of the Samurai.
Journey through a tumultuous Medieval Italy as Aeta, a young knight errant who sets off on a brutal quest to find and save her closest one. 1348 Ex Voto is a cinematic action-adventure game inspired by chivalric tales.
Road to Empress I
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Ranked #8 for The Craft of the Samurai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Craft of the Samurai.
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
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Frequently asked about The Craft of the Samurai
- Is The Craft of the Samurai free to play?
- Yes — The Craft of the Samurai is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Craft of the Samurai?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Craft of the Samurai are 牛头镇的快乐故事, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Svoboda 1945: Liberation.
- Who developed The Craft of the Samurai?
- The Craft of the Samurai was developed by Evgeniy Sevostyanov.
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 Craft of the Samurai.
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