Games like Chinese Strange Stories
If Chinese Strange Stories is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shards of Order, Rituals & War: Shan Hai and Card&Dungeon — 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.
Shards of Order
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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.
A grim RPG with card-based combat where nothing stays dead. Lead a party of survivors through a world undone by shattered Laws. Restore them and reshape the rules of the game, but be ready to face the consequences.
Rituals & War: Shan Hai
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Second-strongest match for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chinese Strange Stories.
In the mountains and seas of pre-Qin myth, the way to Heaven is severed; the gods are silent. A turn-based tactical card game with hand-painted ink-wash art: read clues to enemy moves, sequence your actions each round, then cross swords on one shared timeline. One miscalculation can turn the tide.
Card&Dungeon
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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.
Build a three-hero party and brave procedurally generated, first-person dungeons in this roguelike deckbuilder. Each hero owns part of your deck, and fallen heroes change how their cards work. Fight turn-based card battles, claim relics, endure curses, and push deeper into the Soulwell.
Horn & Dice
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Ranked #4 for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Chinese Strange Stories.
Horn & Dice is a dicebuilder that turns luck based dice rolling into a roguelike by layering skill based depth into it. Forge a unique dice build, combat against creatures from Slavic myth, discover artifacts and potions and solve the mystery of the Horn.
Krodha: A Tale of Vikram & Betaal
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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.
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.
City God Alice：城隍愛麗絲
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Ranked #6 for Chinese Strange Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chinese Strange Stories.
Cursed with only a year left to live, serving her in this City God temple is the only way you can stay alive long enough to uncover the truth behind the curse.
Eternal Embrace: Lumina's Sunshine
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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.
A turn-based deck-building card game for solo play or co-op with up to four players. Craft and upgrade cards and equipment with materials brought back from dungeons, make the most of your favorite class’s role, and take on increasingly difficult dungeons.
Brass & Bramble
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Ranked #8 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.
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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.
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 Chinese Strange Stories.
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.
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.
![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 Shards of Order, Rituals & War: Shan Hai, Card&Dungeon.
- 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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