Games like The Hollow Alchemist
If The Hollow Alchemist is your kind of game, the closest matches are 末世信使, Choppy Waters and Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast — 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 The Hollow Alchemist: A roguelike deckbuilder where alchemy fuels your cards, dice shape your fate, and sins whisper in your ear. Build your deck, forge your path, and decide what kind of soul you’ll become. All buffs react to one another as proper alchemy should do!
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末世信使
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Hollow Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
《末世信使》是一款 Roguelike 策略背包管理游戏。每一次冒险都充满未知，你将收集随机的道具,遭遇随机的事件，自由构筑专属卡组、升级能力、打造定制武器。突破重重挑战，携手伙伴，一同拯救未来的末世世界！
Choppy Waters
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Hollow Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
Sail through pirate-infested waters in this unconventional roguelike deckbuilder. Collect ingredients, craft your own sushi cards, and feed them to hungry pirates in tactical turn-based encounters. Combine active, passive, and reactive abilities to satisfy unruly customers and maximize profits.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Hollow Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Luck Beast is a Touhou Doujin Card-Strategy Game. Using cards across different seasons, join forces with duelists of unique abilities, face various opponents from all over Gensoukyo, and uncover the truth behind the Card Duel Incident!
Dream of Corpse Lady
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Hollow Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
Cards, battle! Someone woke up the sleeping Corpse Lady... Perhaps, the world needs to pay a price for the awakening... In this game, you will play the role of the awakened Corpse Lady, try various strange construction combinations, discover powerful opponents, and then knock them all down!
As We Descend
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Hollow Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Voice of Belldona
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Hollow Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
A sci-fantasy roguelite deckbuilder set in a world collapsing under cosmic instability. To stop the turmoil, humanity created a white-haired, godlike girl with overwhelming power and social anxiety. Enter the Vortex Zone, summon your allies, form your battle line, and tear through the enemy forces.
My Card Is Better Than Your Card!
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Hollow Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
Become the coolest kid of the playground in this playful roguelike deckbuilder. Craft every card yourself with adorable stickers and wow your rivals in tug-of-war card battles full of wonder!
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Hollow Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Hollow Alchemist at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Hollow Alchemist on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hollow Alchemist.
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 ~58% under The Hollow Alchemist on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hollow Alchemist.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Hollow Alchemist on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with The Hollow Alchemist.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under The Hollow Alchemist on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Hollow Alchemist on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
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 ~58% under The Hollow Alchemist on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hollow Alchemist.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Hollow Alchemist on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Alchemist.
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 ~58% under The Hollow Alchemist on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Hollow Alchemist.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Alchemist.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hollow Alchemist.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hollow Alchemist.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Alchemist.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Alchemist.
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.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Alchemist.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Alchemist.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hollow Alchemist.
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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Frequently asked about The Hollow Alchemist
- How much does The Hollow Alchemist cost?
- The Hollow Alchemist is listed on Steam at 11.90 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Hollow Alchemist?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hollow Alchemist are 末世信使, Choppy Waters, Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast.
- Who developed The Hollow Alchemist?
- The Hollow Alchemist was developed by Soul in a flask.
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 Hollow Alchemist.
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