Games like Charlatan
If Charlatan is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dice of Kalma, Tower's Gambit and Swope — 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 Charlatan: A slot machine roguelike built on dirty tricks. Rig the reels to escape a cursed amusement park before it takes your soul.
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Steam players who put hours into Charlatan 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.
Dice of Kalma
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Top pick for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
Welcome to the Underworld’s deadliest game of Dice Poker! Build a deck of deathly skulls, find powerful synergies, and turn the dice to your favor to escape back to the world of the living.
Tower's Gambit
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
A card-based roguelike where every flip could be your fortune — or your doom. Descend a pyramid of cards, dodge deadly matches, play face cards at the perfect moment, and risk your score against 10 brutal boss towers. No two runs are the same.
Swope
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Third-strongest match for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
Descend into Swope, a Minesweeper roguelike deckbuilder. Unearth esoteric technologies, forge explosive synergies in the ultimate balance of risk and reward.
Mind Match
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Ranked #4 for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
Not your usual Match-3. Trapped in your own imagination, match ideas to fuel abilities that upgrade every fight. Beware, Dark Ideas cloud your board and force you to rethink. Place relics that twist the rules. Face Monsters that fight back, and climb a tower built from your own creative blocks.
Dogma Shutdown
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Ranked #5 for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
A satirical roguelike deckbuilder where suffering fuels power, sin becomes currency, and faith is performative spectacle.
Cards and Fables
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Ranked #6 for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
Cards and Fables is a deck-builder with a strong roguelite component: strengthen your deck, create synergies, and face powerful enemies.
Magma Karta
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Ranked #7 for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
Magma Karta is a satisfying strategy card game with roguelite and gambling elements. The rules can switch at any turn, challenging you to adapt your builds and your playstyle.
Match! The 12 CZ Wars
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Ranked #8 for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
"Match! The 12 CZ Wars" is a roguelike strategy game blending match-3 and buff-building. Partner with 12 Zodiac Maidens to repel ancient primordial beasts. Navigate random events, battles, and upgrades. Carefully choose paths, manage resources, and empower your Maidens to secure victory.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Charlatan.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Charlatan.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Charlatan.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Charlatan.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Charlatan.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Charlatan.
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.
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Frequently asked about Charlatan
- What games are most similar to Charlatan?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Charlatan are Dice of Kalma, Tower's Gambit, Swope.
- Who developed Charlatan?
- Charlatan was developed by Gumgo and published by Hypetrain Digital.
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 Charlatan.
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