Games like Charlatan
If Charlatan is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dice of Kalma, Swope and Tower's Gambit — 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.
Swope
WHY THIS
Second-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.
Tower's Gambit
WHY THIS
Third-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.
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.
Rig the Casino
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Charlatan.
The house always wins. So stop playing fair — RIG IT. ROGUELIKE LUCK-ENGINE BUILDER where you GAMBLE, CHOOSE UPGRADES, and RIG THE CASINO.
Revolith
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Charlatan.
A roguelike reel-builder where synergies spiral out of control. Build and upgrade your machine, then spin, nudge, and hold your way into absurd combo chains. Every reel matters, every decision compounds - can you beat the house before it breaks you?
StrategySteam ↗Witchmarked
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Ranked #7 for Charlatan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Charlatan.
Play for your life in a deadly ritual controlled by a coven of torch-happy witches. A candlelit fusion of deckbuilding, resource management, and turn-based strategy.
StrategySteam ↗Dogma Shutdown
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 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.
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Charlatan.
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.
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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, Swope, Tower's Gambit.
- 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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