Games like Talespinner
If Talespinner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cave Crusade, Soulsworn and Cards of the Abyss — 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 Talespinner: Enter a captivating realm woven with the tapestry of Japanese mythology in Talespinner, a deck-building roguelike adventure. As the storyteller, you will guide your chosen hero through an ever-changing narrative shaped by your decisions and deck construction.
Players who liked Talespinner also play
Steam players who put hours into Talespinner 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.
Cave Crusade
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Top pick for Talespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Soulsworn
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Second-strongest match for Talespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
A Yu-Gi-Oh!-inspired roguelike where you fuse any two monsters and create your own custom cards. No mana, no restrictions: combo off, break boards, and OTK your way out of hell.
Cards of the Abyss
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Third-strongest match for Talespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Talespinner.
Cards of the Abyss is a roguelike deckbuilder where movement is your only defense. Move on a grid, dodge enemy attacks, trigger countless chain-reactions and unleash overpowered card combos as you dive deeper into the Abyss.
Low Magic They Said
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Ranked #4 for Talespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where broken builds are a feature, not a bug. Think Slay the Spire meets the unforgiving difficulty of Dark Souls, with Diablo 2's philosophy of letting you discover ridiculously powerful builds yourself. They lied about the magic being low.
THORNSPELL
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Ranked #5 for Talespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
Embody a magical florist by placing plants strategically in your garden, and watering them to score points. THORNSPELL is a garden-building roguelike where you will create and unleash chains of magical effects, dispelling the corruption spreading through your home.
白蛇之子 | The Son of White Snake: Roguelike Deckbuilder
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Ranked #6 for Talespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
The Son of White Snake is a dark deckbuilding roguelike rooted in Chinese mythology. Descend the Leifeng Pagoda—the living gullet of a primordial serpent—to save your mother, where every card teeters between obsession and madness.
Slot or Not
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Ranked #7 for Talespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
Slot or Not is a turn-based slot machine battling adventure. Fight evil fruits alongside your battle buddy slot machine to save your village. Spin your destiny and grab the precious loot in a fast-paced, colorful adventure.
SpellRogue
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Ranked #8 for Talespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Talespinner.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Talespinner.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Talespinner.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Talespinner.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Talespinner.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Talespinner.
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!
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Frequently asked about Talespinner
- What games are most similar to Talespinner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Talespinner are Cave Crusade, Soulsworn, Cards of the Abyss.
- Who developed Talespinner?
- Talespinner was developed by Flash Cat Games and published by Kwalee.
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 Talespinner.
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