Games like Ink Reverie
If Ink Reverie is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hearth and Hamlet, Idle Commonwealth and WorldShaper Idle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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 Ink Reverie: Ink Reverie is a casual city-building game set in a fictional historical era with art inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties. As a diligent manager, you'll guide hardworking villagers to transform a remote village into a prosperous home through exploration, construction, production, and trade.
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Steam players who put hours into Ink Reverie 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.
Hearth and Hamlet
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ink Reverie fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ink Reverie.
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a cozy incremental medieval citybuilder that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
Idle Commonwealth
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, meta progression and a relaxing mood with Ink Reverie.
Second-strongest match for Ink Reverie fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Ink Reverie.
Idle Commonwealth is an idle game that pays homage to the best of the idle genre. Start small, grow your commonwealth, maintain morale, establish governance, invent technologies, trade and conquer your neighbors.
WorldShaper Idle
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, meta progression, cozy and a peaceful mood with Ink Reverie.
Third-strongest match for Ink Reverie fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ink Reverie.
Relax and build your own world! Discover new tiles by experimenting with tile placement. Use their bonuses to optimize your production, or just sit back and become ever more powerful! What will your worlds look like?
Island Idle RPG: Build and Conquer
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ink Reverie fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
Build your kingdom, assign workers to gather resources and craft gear, and support your leader with simple RPG classes in dungeon battles against bosses to earn loot that improves your island in this relaxing idle progression game. 🦊 Manage → 🌲 Gather → 🔨 Craft → ⚔️ Expeditions → 💰 Prosper
IDLE BOSS RUSH
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, meta progression, indie and an atmospheric mood with Ink Reverie.
Ranked #5 for Ink Reverie fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
Fill Up The Hole
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, upgrade system, indie and a chill mood with Ink Reverie.
Ranked #6 for Ink Reverie fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
Go To Hell Must
WHY THIS
Shares resource management, whimsical and an atmospheric mood with Ink Reverie.
Ranked #7 for Ink Reverie fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
Want to decide where mortals go when they die? Welcome to hell! With one click, you can decide whether mortals should go to heaven or stay in hell.
Industry Idle
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Ink Reverie.
Ranked #8 for Ink Reverie fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ink Reverie at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Ink Reverie on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ink Reverie.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Ink Reverie on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Ink Reverie on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ink Reverie.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Ink Reverie on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Ink Reverie on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ink Reverie.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Ink Reverie on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ink Reverie.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Ink Reverie on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ink Reverie.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Ink Reverie on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ink Reverie.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ink Reverie.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ink Reverie.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ink Reverie.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from Rolling Cat Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Rolling Cat Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Red Line
WHY THIS
Another title from Rolling Cat Studio, the studio behind Ink Reverie. Shares Indie with Ink Reverie.
Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world. A thrilling adventure taking place across multiple timelines ensues.
月夜赞歌 Melody in the moonlight
WHY THIS
Another title from Rolling Cat Studio, the studio behind Ink Reverie.
A difficult RPG puzzle game. Because of an accident, the two sisters entered a wrong time and space. Please help them find the hidden truth in this false space and time.
黎明为歌 - Melody before the Dawn
WHY THIS
Another title from Rolling Cat Studio, the studio behind Ink Reverie. Shares Indie with Ink Reverie.
居住在极北之地的少女瑟里卡，每晚都会在睡梦中进入另一个世界—— 这里有着她未曾见过的风景，鲜活的友人，以及一场奇迹般的邂逅。 懵懂的感情为之觉醒，却被提醒一切只是幻梦…… 梦与现实究竟有什么联系，她们的命运又会发生怎样的转变呢？ 迷雾笼罩身周，她将舒展梦境的羽翼，为黎明献上歌唱。
Frequently asked about Ink Reverie
- Does Ink Reverie run on Steam Deck?
- Ink Reverie 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 Ink Reverie cost?
- Ink Reverie is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ink Reverie?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ink Reverie are Hearth and Hamlet, Idle Commonwealth, WorldShaper Idle.
- Who developed Ink Reverie?
- Ink Reverie was developed by Rolling Cat Studio and published by indienova.
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