Games like Malys
If Malys is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hellsino Pokerlike, Burn With Me and Cult Leader Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and dark. 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 Malys: Expose, endure and expel evil from innocents on your hunt through a corrupted city. As Noah, former priest turned demon-hunter, you'll perform exorcisms, forge precarious alliances and strengthen your deck of arcane tricks in this unholy roguelite deckbuilder.
Players who liked Malys also play
Steam players who put hours into Malys 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.
Hellsino Pokerlike
WHY THIS
Top pick for Malys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
Multiply your way out of debt in a roguelike deckbuilder where poker meets grid tactics. Place cards onto a 5x3 board to trigger vertical and horizontal combos. Master the Nexus Multiplier, outsmart a rigged house, and stack massive scores to save your soul from absolute bankruptcy.
Burn With Me
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Malys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Malys.
Burn With Me is a story-centric deckbuilder filled with cozy dread and occultic mysteries. In order to summon a Personal Demon you'll master inventive gameplay with position-based synergies, and permanently burn your cards and your soul.
Cult Leader Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Malys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
Strategize, discover new cards, control risk, gather followers and increase your power. You are the leader of your own cult!
IRONHIVE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Malys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
Ironhive is a deckbuilding strategy game about surviving in a dying world. Build your colony, ensure the survival of your people, create a legacy that will be passed on to the next generations. As the Ironlord, you are their only remaining hope.
Runeborn
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, roguelite progression, indie and a contemplative mood with Malys.
Ranked #5 for Malys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
Runeborn is a dark fantasy roguelike that merges deckbuilding with a slot-machine-like mechanic. Forge your Runebook, crush enemies, and combine Trinkets of boundless power to destroy the forces of Malakar!
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, combo based combat, character driven and an atmospheric mood with Malys.
Ranked #6 for Malys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Luck Beast is a Touhou Doujin Card-Strategy Game. Using cards across different seasons, join forces with duelists of unique abilities, face various opponents from all over Gensoukyo, and uncover the truth behind the Card Duel Incident!
DeckLand
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Malys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
DeckLand is a rogue-lite mixing traditional Eastern elements into the deck-building genre. You are a monk returning to the kingdom of morning calm. Use various cards and tools to break through obstacles, defeat strong enemies, and approach the source of the catastrophe plaguing the kingdom!
Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Malys.
Ranked #8 for Malys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
Nadir is a roguelike deck-builder with a twist: the cost to play a card is an enemy reaction you can predict. Craft your own cards to slay powerful demons. Gather resources, expand your city, grow in power and conquer the underworld.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and procedural generation with Malys.
Reviewers of Malys cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
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!
Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Malys.
Reviewers of Malys cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Malys.
Reviewers of Malys cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Malys at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Malys on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malys.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Malys on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malys.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and procedural generation with Malys.
Priced ~48% under Malys on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Malys on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malys.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Malys on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malys.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Malys on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malys.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Malys on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Malys.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Malys on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malys.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malys.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malys.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malys.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malys.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malys.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malys.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Malys
- Does Malys run on Steam Deck?
- Malys 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 Malys cost?
- Malys is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Malys?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Malys are Hellsino Pokerlike, Burn With Me, Cult Leader Simulator.
- Who developed Malys?
- Malys was developed by Summerfall Studios.
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 Malys.
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