Games like ILLUMINATI
If ILLUMINATI is your kind of game, the closest matches are Evil Cult, Gorotsuki Paradise and Cabals: Card Blitz — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, dark and retro. 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 ILLUMINATI: Join the conspiracy of global domination and dark satire in this classic from Steve Jackson Games. As one of the Illuminati, you are driven by power, money, mayhem—and more. Grow stronger as you plot to destroy your rivals. How will you take over the world?
Players who liked ILLUMINATI also play
Steam players who put hours into ILLUMINATI 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.
Evil Cult
WHY THIS
Top pick for ILLUMINATI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ILLUMINATI.
This is a strategy board game of Lovecraftian macabre. Gain resources, grow your cult, stay hidden from the world, and when the stars are finally right summon the Elder God you worship. Alternatively, just eliminate the competition in an invisible war.
Gorotsuki Paradise
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ILLUMINATI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ILLUMINATI.
Gorotsuki Paradise is an online PvP card game where you build your deck as you battle.🃏 Recruit over 150 unique "gorotsuki" cards and fight your way to the top of the mad city of Saitama.🦹 It’s completely free to play, with no pay-to-win mechanics!🤑
Cabals: Card Blitz
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with ILLUMINATI.
Third-strongest match for ILLUMINATI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ILLUMINATI.
Build decks and fight auto-battles.
Gambetto
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ILLUMINATI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ILLUMINATI.
Gambetto is a fast-paced PvP card game that fuses chess tactics with deep deck-building. Command pieces on a 5×5 board, create clever combos, and outsmart opponents. Play competitively or craft custom game modes for endless strategic variety.
One Last Hand
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ILLUMINATI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ILLUMINATI.
Bid for cards, build your hand, then SLAP YOUR FRIENDS with it. A chaotic 2-6 player online party card battler full of secret bids, unfair Relics, lucky comebacks, and friendships that probably won’t survive the table.
Dark ill 暗黑蛊国
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ILLUMINATI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ILLUMINATI.
This card adventure game combines elements of darkness, card and roguelike. Upgrading the cards will bring random attributes, creating various and unique adventure experiences. Design your custom card sets to defeat the decaying monsters, face the darkness and break the curse!
Star Scum
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ILLUMINATI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ILLUMINATI.
Star Scum is a strategy game that fuses deckbuilding with tight turn-based tactics. Forge your deck and customize your ship in the roguelike run, or build decks from scratch and test them out in custom battles or online multiplayer.
Doors of Insanity
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ILLUMINATI fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ILLUMINATI.
Cards and Chaos await you in Doors of Insanity, a Deck Building RPG roguelike with a focus on character creation and incredible loot!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ILLUMINATI at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ILLUMINATI on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ILLUMINATI.
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 ILLUMINATI on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ILLUMINATI.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ILLUMINATI on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ILLUMINATI.
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 ILLUMINATI on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ILLUMINATI.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under ILLUMINATI on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ILLUMINATI.
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 ~50% under ILLUMINATI on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ILLUMINATI.
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 ~70% under ILLUMINATI on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ILLUMINATI.
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 ILLUMINATI on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ILLUMINATI.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ILLUMINATI.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ILLUMINATI.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ILLUMINATI.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ILLUMINATI.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ILLUMINATI.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ILLUMINATI.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ILLUMINATI.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about ILLUMINATI
- Does ILLUMINATI run on Steam Deck?
- ILLUMINATI 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 ILLUMINATI cost?
- ILLUMINATI is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ILLUMINATI have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ILLUMINATI supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to ILLUMINATI?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ILLUMINATI are Evil Cult, Gorotsuki Paradise, Cabals: Card Blitz.
- Who developed ILLUMINATI?
- ILLUMINATI was developed by RadioFree.Net and published by RadioFree.Net.
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 ILLUMINATI.
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