Games like ploink
If ploink is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cave Crusade, Order Automatica and Guildrun — 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 ploink: A chaotic plinko inspired roguelike with a focus on wacky items and creative setups. Design a board of random crap and fill the screen with balls and numbers. There are no bad items you just gotta figure out how to use them.
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Steam players who put hours into ploink 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.
Cave Crusade
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Top pick for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Order Automatica
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Second-strongest match for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
A dark tactical roguelite where positioning, synergies, and automated battles collide on a tiny 3x3 ritual grid. Like chess with demons.
Guildrun
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Third-strongest match for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
Turn a simple team into an unstoppable force and crush waves of monsters in this PvE autobattler roguelike. No two runs feel the same as you bend heroes beyond their class roles and discover countless combinations and synergies. Seal the rifts at your own pace and uncover what tore them open.
Three Kingdoms Club Manager
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Ranked #4 for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
This is a tactical roguelike with grid battles. Recruit heroes, collect gear and passives to build teams. The roguelike mode has Slay the Spire-style maps, 6 classes with unique difficulties. Shop pulls items and rare upgrades. League mode offers 18 factions with football-style ranks.
Crimson Crusade
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Ranked #5 for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
Crimson Crusade is a Dark Fantasy, Deckbuilding Roguelike Auto-Battler about war, necromancers, and resurrection. Draft your dark army, summon foul creatures, and wipe the battlefield clean of your enemies. Will you end the war, or simply extend it into eternity?
Tinker Shot
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Ranked #6 for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
A turn-based skill-crafting dungeon crawler roguelike, where you combine crazy effects and upgrades for your skills and use them on enemies. With a strategic physics-based gameplay, unlock and grow your arsenal of spells and items to overcome the challenging dungeon of Underground Ruins!
Spinny Dungeon
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Ranked #7 for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
The slot machine roguelike. Each time you hit the SPIN button monsters creep closer. KILL 'em! LOOT 'em! EAT 'em! Focus on spells or synergies between symbols. Spin to DIE or spin to SURVIVE!
Tabulo
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Ranked #8 for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike. Enhance your pieces, purchase powers, and win bonuses from optional challenges, but be careful - your board only has so much room.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ploink.
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?
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with ploink.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ploink.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ploink.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ploink.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ploink.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about ploink
- What games are most similar to ploink?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ploink are Cave Crusade, Order Automatica, Guildrun.
- Who developed ploink?
- ploink was developed by Pyrocreep.
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 ploink.
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