Games like Lexomancy
If Lexomancy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Handwriting Fantasy, Backdraft and Glazed Mirror : Myriad Cards — 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 Lexomancy: A fantastical deckbuilding rouguelike, all packed into a traditional word game. Play as a Lexomancer, a magic user who can channel their power through Runic Tiles, and venture fourth on a quest to find the ever elusive Necrolexicon
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Handwriting Fantasy
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Top pick for Lexomancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lexomancy.
A Roguelike card game based on Chinese character rules! Cards are designed according to the meaning of the characters. You can composite stronger character cards, and composite words to enhance their skills. Emergence of unconstrained builds, experience endless fun!
Backdraft
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Second-strongest match for Lexomancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Lexomancy.
Draft. Fight. Repeat. It’s hero vs hero in a roguelike battle for board control. Summon minions, stack enchantments, and chain attacks into devastating combos. Decide when to clear the board, defend your team, or strike the rival hero.
Glazed Mirror : Myriad Cards
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Third-strongest match for Lexomancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lexomancy.
Randomly deal the cards, with the Role cards determining the card pool. Based on the technique cards in hand, play them in sequence to trigger their effects. Alter cards alter the initial deal, and the Phantasm challenge the depth limit.
Hell Hold'em
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Ranked #4 for Lexomancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lexomancy.
Hell Hold’em is a dark turn-based RPG where every encounter is a battle of strategy, manipulation, and survival. Descend into the underworld to rescue an unjustly condemned soul. Face demons in twisted turn-based duels where every hand is a trap. To survive, you'll have to cheat better than they do.
Shanhai Exorcist: Yin-Yang Chronicles
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Ranked #5 for Lexomancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lexomancy.
One card, two fates. Flip between Yin and Yang faces to change both cost and effect, read enemy intents, and turn defense, setup, and burst into one decisive sequence. Build around Sword, Five Phases, Summoning, or Karma in a Chinese-mythology roguelike deckbuilder.
Odds Chronicles
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Ranked #6 for Lexomancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lexomancy.
A tactical roguelite RPG where every roll matters. Fight on a strategic grid, shape your hero’s path through dice-driven choices, and uncover a story-rich world inspired by tabletop adventures.
Spell Death
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Ranked #7 for Lexomancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lexomancy.
Your deck is the alphabet. A roguelike deckbuilder where you spell words to kill things, and every letter rides a paper stock: Iron turns damage into Block, Jagged only cuts when you throw it, Volatile explodes if you sit on it.
Bibidi Bibidi!
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Ranked #8 for Lexomancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lexomancy.
Bibidi Bibidi! is a whimsical deckbuilder where your wizard shouts whatever spell you conjure up. Every card has 3 components that you combine in your spellbook for unique effects. Mix and match incantations like sim-sala-bim and abra-kadabra to zap your way through a dungeon filled with monsters.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lexomancy.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lexomancy.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexomancy.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexomancy.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexomancy.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexomancy.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexomancy.
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 Lexomancy
- What games are most similar to Lexomancy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lexomancy are Handwriting Fantasy, Backdraft, Glazed Mirror : Myriad Cards.
- Who developed Lexomancy?
- Lexomancy was developed by Studio Bowers.
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 Lexomancy.
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