Games like ploink
If ploink is your kind of game, the closest matches are Paris Transylvania, PegLotto! and Cave Crusade — 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.
Players who liked ploink also play
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.
Paris Transylvania
WHY THIS
Top pick for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
A vampire-slaying pachinko roguelike deckbuilder. Collect a powerful deck of cards, strategize, aim, and pop pegs to power up and deal massive damage with relic synergies. Play as one of the unlikely heroes, conquer Transylvania, and free the people in this turn-based RPG.
PegLotto!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
PegLotto! is a roguelike that combines slots, pachinko, and deck-building. Pick your items, place them on the board, and pray that luck is on your side! Sit back, enjoy the view from the train window, and ride the waves of fortune!
Cave Crusade
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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.
Matchinko
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ploink.
Match glowing crystals to build a pachinko board, then rain your ball loadout through it for an exploding score. A cozy winter roguelite of fairies, tiles, and fate: light every town on the climb to the boss — but miss one target and the run is over.
Order Automatica
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 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
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 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.
Camedieo
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
A score chase roguelike deckbuilder played with dice. Every hand splits in two: the dice you Cast and the ones you Outcast. The points from each are multiplied together to produce your score. Collect cameos, upgrade your deck using cups and try to break the scoreboard!
Riftweaver's Deck
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ploink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
Riftweaver's Deck is a roguelite deckbuilding autobattler. Recruit heroes, better your equipment and skills. Travel through the rift portals to encounter powerful foes and friends. Be Victorious on your quest, and Vanquish the Dark Riftweaver and his morphlings!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ploink at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under ploink on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ploink.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under ploink on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ploink.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under ploink on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ploink on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ploink.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under ploink on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ploink.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under ploink on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ploink.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under ploink on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ploink.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under ploink on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ploink.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
- How much does ploink cost?
- ploink is listed on Steam at 11.69 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ploink?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ploink are Paris Transylvania, PegLotto!, Cave Crusade.
- 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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