Games like Chinese Strange Stories
If Chinese Strange Stories is your kind of game, the closest matches are Krodha: A Tale of Vikram & Betaal, Bibdu and SAMPO — 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 Chinese Strange Stories: Step into a living Chinese painting that blends the mystical, supernatural, and the struggles of daily life in the final years of the Ming dynasty. Experience a unique mix of classic turn-based RPG mechanics and dynamic card battling, where strategy and fate intertwine.
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Steam players who put hours into Chinese Strange Stories 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.
Krodha: A Tale of Vikram & Betaal
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Top pick for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
Krodha is a Dice + Deck + Slot-building roguelike rooted in the Indian legend of Vikram and Betaal. Draft your deck, slot cards into a board, roll the dice and piece together a mystery told by three "very" unreliable narrators.
Bibdu
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Second-strongest match for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chinese Strange Stories.
Bibdu is a hand-painted RPG set in ancient Ireland where you unravel myths and legends through open world exploration and strategic card battles.
SAMPO
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Third-strongest match for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
Sampo is a Kalevala-inspired roguelite deckbuilder rooted in Finnish mythology, where you forge powerful rune combos, battle mythical creatures, and quest through a world of ancient magic to claim the legendary Sampo.
Brass & Bramble
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Ranked #4 for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chinese Strange Stories.
Brass & Bramble is a narrative deck-builder set in a steampunk Victorian age where myth and empire collide. As Avalon’s Envoy, battle the brass-forged Empire, uncover forgotten roots of myth, and journey from Ireland to Egypt, Japan, and beyond in story-driven expeditions.
Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening
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Ranked #5 for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
"GODSOUL" is a story-driven,Hyper-visually RPG. Team with "rebel" girls who love gaming and drawing（and more）, resist villains and enjoy a mix of cyber reality, fantastical worlds, and card game action.
Journey to the West
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Ranked #6 for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
A challenging rogue-like deck building game about a legendary adventure in the Realm of Divinity. Lead your team, build your unique deck, gather powerful relics and consumables to confront legendary creatures and eventually discover the truth behind the omen of darkness.
Black Book
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Ranked #7 for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
“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.
Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG
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Ranked #8 for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Chinese Strange Stories.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chinese Strange Stories.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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 Chinese Strange Stories.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chinese Strange Stories.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chinese Strange Stories.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Chinese Strange Stories
- What games are most similar to Chinese Strange Stories?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chinese Strange Stories are Krodha: A Tale of Vikram & Betaal, Bibdu, SAMPO.
- Who developed Chinese Strange Stories?
- Chinese Strange Stories was developed by Longbow Creations.
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 Chinese Strange Stories.
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