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Games like The Guiding Spirit

If The Guiding Spirit is your kind of game, the closest matches are Metlivi Adventure, Long Shadow and Raptors of SouthEdge — 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.

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About The Guiding Spirit: Mix and match hundreds of traits, flaws, and skills to design unique heroes with complex personalities and ambitions. Watch them love, hate, help, and hinder each other. Roll the dice and become the Guiding Spirit of your group of misfits in this story-rich fantasy campaign simulator!

2026RPGWindowsby Dice Impact
The Guiding Spirit — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into The Guiding Spirit 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.

  1. Metlivi Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Guiding Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    Metlivi Adventure is a private 1–4 player collaborative narrative game where you create a story room, choose a character, write your actions, and shape an evolving shared adventure together with friends.

    2026IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  2. Long Shadow

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Guiding Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    Guide one family across centuries of collapse, evacuation, settlement and interstellar expansion. Preserve memories, establish laws, command crews, inherit ships and face the Afterless as every choice becomes part of history.

  3. Raptors of SouthEdge

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Guiding Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    A Post-Apocalyptic Gamebook by SouthEdge Studios.

    2021RPG2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Crypt of the Shadow King

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Guiding Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    A terminal RPG for 1-4 players built on 5E rules. Build a party from 12 classes and races, fight through 100+ rooms of cursed crypts and the Shadowfell, cast 146 spells, and face a villain who won't stay dead. Grid combat, narrated audio, and a three-act campaign dark enough to earn its name.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Courage and Faith: Into the Dark Woods

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Guiding Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    A dark, atmospheric party-based RPG where you form an expedition, make difficult choices, manage tension, and fight tactical turn-based battles. AI-generated narration reacts to your decisions, making each journey into the forest feel distinct.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Unforetold: Witchstone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Guiding Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    Unforetold: Witchstone is an RPG sandbox with a deep, reactive influence system that allows you to shape the fate of the world.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Dark Quest 4

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Guiding Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    A turn based dungeon crawler where you create a party of heroes to go on epic quests.

    2025StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Guiding Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!

    2023AdventureSimulationRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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  4. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

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    WHY THIS

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  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

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  7. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Guiding Spirit.

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

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  8. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

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Frequently asked about The Guiding Spirit

Does The Guiding Spirit have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — The Guiding Spirit supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to The Guiding Spirit?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Guiding Spirit are Metlivi Adventure, Long Shadow, Raptors of SouthEdge.
Who developed The Guiding Spirit?
The Guiding Spirit was developed by Dice Impact.

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 The Guiding Spirit.

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