Games like Yao-Guai Hunter
If Yao-Guai Hunter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Indies' Lies, Across the Obelisk and Slay the Spire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its stunning artwork and atmosphere, unique character interactions and atmospheric. 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 Yao-Guai Hunter: Yao-Guai Hunter is a Wuxia roguelike deck-building game. In a world where Yao-Guai roam free, player battles with various evil beings, collecting cards and learn inner skills. Encountering various adventures in the martial world.
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Steam players who put hours into Yao-Guai Hunter 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.
Indies' Lies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Top pick for Yao-Guai Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
A roguelike deck-building game where you craft a deck, spark talents, discover runes, and assemble your team with partners' cards! Play unique stories for every character and explore a world caught in the clash of gods. New Puppeteer DLC just released!
Across the Obelisk
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Second-strongest match for Yao-Guai Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Set forth in a co-op roguelite deckbuilder where every choice matters! Craft decks of breathtaking power. Journey alone or with up to three friends. Plot your party’s path to glory and face powerful enemies in deep tactical combat on your quest to save the kingdom of Senenthia in Across the Obelisk!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Third-strongest match for Yao-Guai Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
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!
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Ranked #4 for Yao-Guai Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
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.
Knock on the Coffin Lid
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Ranked #5 for Yao-Guai Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.
Castle Morihisa
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Ranked #6 for Yao-Guai Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
"Castle Morihisa" is a roguelike featuring strategic deckbuilder. You need to build up your deck through constant battles, acquire powerful talents, and wield the power of the Fallen Heroes to unveil the truth behind the rebellion in Castle Morihisa.
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Ranked #7 for Yao-Guai Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Welcome to Eientei, combine multiple colors of mana to build your ideal deck, duel with gensokyo girls, and chase back the mysterious moon treasure. Also, enjoy the unpredictable Roguelike with fantasy Danmaku!
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Ranked #8 for Yao-Guai Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Yao-Guai Hunter at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Yao-Guai Hunter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Yao-Guai Hunter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Yao-Guai Hunter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Yao-Guai Hunter on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Yao-Guai Hunter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Yao-Guai Hunter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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More from MyACG Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by MyACG Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
永远消失的幻想乡 ～ The Disappearing of Gensokyo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Another title from MyACG Studio, the studio behind Yao-Guai Hunter. Shares Indie and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
"The Disappearing of Gensokyo" is a Touhou Project doujin game from MyACG Studio, a Chinese doujin game fan circle. We have re-imagined Touhou as an ARPG, creating this "Danmaku-Shooting-ARPG". We hope this game will be a good experience for those who are both new and knowledgeable of Touhou!
Cinderia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Another title from MyACG Studio, the studio behind Yao-Guai Hunter. Shares Indie and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
A fast, brutal action roguelite with razor-sharp controls and insane build freedom. Fuse embers, skill cards, and gear into wildly overpowered combat styles — and break each run in a world consumed by the Ash Witch.
Touhou Endless Dream
WHY THIS
Another title from MyACG Studio, the studio behind Yao-Guai Hunter. Shares Indie and RPG with Yao-Guai Hunter.
A bullet hell roguelike game. Players can utilize characters with different abilities, collect and assemble powerful items. Dance through an unending barrage of bullets to save both yourself and Touhou Gensokyo from the darkness that is engulfing everything.
Touhou Big Big Battle
WHY THIS
Another title from MyACG Studio, the studio behind Yao-Guai Hunter. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
just a touhou rts game
Touhou Monster TD ~ 幻想乡妖怪塔防
WHY THIS
Another title from MyACG Studio, the studio behind Yao-Guai Hunter. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Easy to learn but hard to master, Touhou Monster TD is a unique Tower defense Game. Control your character, level up and unlock tower skills and character talents, use your wisdom to defeat incoming enemies. Travel the Gensokyo, find out why the “Incident” happened this time.
AutoChess of Gensokyo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yao-Guai Hunter.
Another title from MyACG Studio, the studio behind Yao-Guai Hunter. Shares Strategy with Yao-Guai Hunter.
"AutoChess of Gensokyo" is a Touhou Project multi-player AutoChess-Like game. Draw character from the deck, build your combination, upgrade the character, and fight with other players. Keep optimizing your combination to win the game.
Frequently asked about Yao-Guai Hunter
- Does Yao-Guai Hunter run on Steam Deck?
- Yao-Guai Hunter 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 Yao-Guai Hunter cost?
- Yao-Guai Hunter is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Yao-Guai Hunter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yao-Guai Hunter are Indies' Lies, Across the Obelisk, Slay the Spire.
- Who developed Yao-Guai Hunter?
- Yao-Guai Hunter was developed by MyACG Studio.
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