Games like Monastery
If Monastery is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lost, Pairs & Perils and None Shall Intrude — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Monastery: A hand-drawn, dark-fantasy roguelite deckbuilder where you build a run around gear, equipment and weapon mastery. Fight tactical card battles, and push deeper through a branching “dungeon crawl” structure.
Players who liked Monastery also play
Steam players who put hours into Monastery 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.
Lost
WHY THIS
Top pick for Monastery fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
Lost is a with Chinese style mysterious unreal story is setting, contain all sorts of Chinese style ghost legend and content card card player of Rougelike adventure game ACTS the vagabonder that loses memory, set foot on unknown journey.
Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monastery.
Second-strongest match for Monastery fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.
None Shall Intrude
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monastery.
Third-strongest match for Monastery fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
Venture into None Shall Intrude, a roguelite deck-builder with tile-based combat where you become a powerful Raid Boss. Epic battles, intricate strategies, and the ever-present threat of heroic challengers seeking to vanquish your reign. Will you conquer all or fall to valiant heroes?
Super Fantasy Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Monastery.
Ranked #4 for Monastery fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Monastery.
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
He is Coming
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monastery.
Ranked #5 for Monastery fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Monastery.
Deep in the forgotten corners of the world, a dark force stirs – the Demon King rises once more. Sharpen your wits, seek out powerful artifacts, and stand firm in the face of the apocalypse in this roguelite RPG auto battler.
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monastery.
Ranked #6 for Monastery fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Monastery.
Ranked #7 for Monastery fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
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!
Black Book
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monastery.
Ranked #8 for Monastery fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Monastery at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Monastery on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monastery.
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 ~55% under Monastery on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monastery.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Monastery.
Priced ~44% under Monastery on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Monastery on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
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 ~55% under Monastery on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monastery.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Monastery on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monastery.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Monastery on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Monastery.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Monastery on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monastery.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monastery.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monastery.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monastery.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monastery.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monastery.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monastery.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monastery.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monastery.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.
Super Fantasy Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Monastery.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Monastery.
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
He is Coming
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monastery.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Monastery.
Deep in the forgotten corners of the world, a dark force stirs – the Demon King rises once more. Sharpen your wits, seek out powerful artifacts, and stand firm in the face of the apocalypse in this roguelite RPG auto battler.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Monastery.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monastery.
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!
Frequently asked about Monastery
- Does Monastery run on Steam Deck?
- Monastery is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Monastery cost?
- Monastery is listed on Steam at 11.19 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Monastery?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monastery are Lost, Pairs & Perils, None Shall Intrude.
- Who developed Monastery?
- Monastery was developed by Lycan 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 Monastery.
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