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Games like Hunt for the Lost Folktales

If Hunt for the Lost Folktales is your kind of game, the closest matches are Conjurers, 封神榜2022 and Mortal Glory 2 — 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 Hunt for the Lost Folktales: A folklore hunting turn-based adventure where you follow hidden trails to track down escaped folktale beasts, engage in strategic tactical battles where fear is your strength, and capture the lost folktales so they may live on in memory. Will you be another folktale to be written?

2027StrategyIndieAdventureRPGWindowsby Howling Lost Tales
Hunt for the Lost Folktales — Steam game cover

Players who liked Hunt for the Lost Folktales also play

Steam players who put hours into Hunt for the Lost Folktales 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. Conjurers

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Hunt for the Lost Folktales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    Defeat the Conjurers. Take their constellations. Conquer the Zodiac. A classic turn-based tactics game where deckbuilding lets players summon Zodiac creatures and hybrids, then steal new constellations by defeating rival Conjurers. Will you become powerful enough to face the Immortal Aquarius?

    StrategyIndieDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. 封神榜2022

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Hunt for the Lost Folktales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    This game takes Nezha, Xiaolongnv, Yang Jian and Jiang Taigong as the protagonists. It tells the legendary story of the protagonists going to various places to adventure, and finally to Chaoge City to destroy the three demons and defeat King Zhou.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Mortal Glory 2

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hunt for the Lost Folktales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hunt for the Lost Folktales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Multiverse Loot Hunter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hunt for the Lost Folktales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    This is a brush treasure adventure game across the heavens. The protagonist awakens his powers and freely passes through different planes such as Xiuxian, history, Wuxia, magic, and future. Collect equipment, spirits, characters and cheats distributed across all planes through battle.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Shardpunk

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hunt for the Lost Folktales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 封神榜2023

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hunt for the Lost Folktales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    This game takes Nezha, Xiaolongnv, Yang Jian and Jiang Ziya as the protagonists. The game tells the legendary story of the protagonists going to various places to adventure, and finally to Zhaoge City to destroy the three demons and defeat King Zhou.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Low Magic Age

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hunt for the Lost Folktales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.

    2017StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 100 Asian Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

    2023ActionSportsStrategyFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Conjurers

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    Defeat the Conjurers. Take their constellations. Conquer the Zodiac. A classic turn-based tactics game where deckbuilding lets players summon Zodiac creatures and hybrids, then steal new constellations by defeating rival Conjurers. Will you become powerful enough to face the Immortal Aquarius?

    StrategyIndieDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Shardpunk

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

    The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hunt for the Lost Folktales

What games are most similar to Hunt for the Lost Folktales?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hunt for the Lost Folktales are Conjurers, 封神榜2022, Mortal Glory 2.
Who developed Hunt for the Lost Folktales?
Hunt for the Lost Folktales was developed by Howling Lost Tales.

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 Hunt for the Lost Folktales.

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