Games like Appa
If Appa is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mikane's Hand, Deal of the Dead Final Cut and Ace Expedition 王牌远征 — 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 Appa: Appa is a surreal narrative-driven card battler about two siblings and dealing with the death of their father. Predict, counter, and outmaneuver manifestations of grief while uncovering a heartfelt story somewhere between dreams and reality.
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Steam players who put hours into Appa 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.
Mikane's Hand
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Top pick for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A girl's card battle world — where you witness the turmoil of youth. What is this place?
Deal of the Dead Final Cut
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Second-strongest match for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Appa.
Deal of the Dead: Final Cut is a Solitaire-style, survival horror, card game rendered in a unique, hand-drawn, art style. Fight your way through randomly shuffled decks of cards and escape from a zombie-infested city set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Ace Expedition 王牌远征
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Third-strongest match for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
Ace Expedition is a deep deck building roguelike where you step into a realm full of unknowns and mysteries. Each shuffle starts a new legend. Combine cards to attack and buff, plan your best moves within a limited number of plays, and take on powerful foes.
Battle Hanafuda
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Ranked #4 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Appa.
A strategic two-player card battle based on the traditional Japanese game Hanafuda. Learn as you play and enjoy thrilling “Koi-Koi” duels filled with risk and reward.
English Vocab Rush
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Ranked #5 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
This is a deck-building game blending strategy and luck, where you build card combos and trigger explosive effects against opponents. With varied hands and hidden mechanics, each run is full of surprises. It also introduces English vocabulary, letting you learn while playing.
Ancient Enemy
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Ranked #6 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
Ancient Enemy is an RPG card battler set in a crumbling world where the forces of evil have already won. Blast distorted enemies with a satisfying range of spells and abilities. Journey into a scarred wilderness and draw power and hope from the landscape to defeat the deadliest foe of all!
Occlude
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Ranked #7 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplayer narrative puzzle game for the terminally curious. Don’t worry; you can always start over.
Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game
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Ranked #8 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game is an online DBG which contains a PVE mode called Uncharted Realms and a PVP mode. Every game is a deck building from scratch. Players can have stronger decks by changing cards, and then build more powerful routines to defeat all opponents to win.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Appa.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Appa.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Appa.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Appa.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Appa.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Appa.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Appa.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Appa
- What games are most similar to Appa?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Appa are Mikane's Hand, Deal of the Dead Final Cut, Ace Expedition 王牌远征.
- Who developed Appa?
- Appa was developed by HeatDeathStudio.
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 Appa.
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