Games like The Book of the Alchemist
If The Book of the Alchemist is your kind of game, the closest matches are Brucie's Arcade, Space Operators and Wishlair — 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 Book of the Alchemist: 1980s America. A dying doctor follows an ancient book to a fogbound town of disappearances and unsolved murders. Dark alchemy offers a cure—at a terrible cost. Will you die as a human being—or will you kill your humanity to survive?
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Steam players who put hours into The Book of the Alchemist 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.
Brucie's Arcade
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Top pick for The Book of the Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Book of the Alchemist.
A retro arcade game bundle where you must manage a restaurant through four mini-games: Ingredient Run, Cooking, Serving, and Stacking Leftovers. Each game offers unique challenges packaged up in a familiar, replayable arcade format.
Space Operators
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Second-strongest match for The Book of the Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Book of the Alchemist.
This is an old-school tank shooter set in space. Conquer newly discovered moons for Mega Corporation Mining Industry to earn your paycheck and make your parents proud! Win battles with your drone by blowing up your rivals in this retro pixel art game.
Wishlair
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Third-strongest match for The Book of the Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Book of the Alchemist.
Discover weapons, items, and artifacts to help you on your quest. Vanquish the fearsome creatures that lurk in the shadows. Explore over a hundred rooms, learning the lore of the land, collecting the mystical Wish Shards, and unlocking the secrets of Wishlair.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
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Ranked #4 for The Book of the Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Book of the Alchemist.
A nostalgic metroidvania from the good old days back in 19XX. Take on the role of Sean, a young boy who ventures into the fictional city of Arostia to repay his father's debt. Rescue your 3 friends from imprisonment, defeat strong enemies, all while getting your debt paid in time!
Block Room
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Ranked #5 for The Book of the Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Book of the Alchemist.
Overcome the challenges of each mini-level in this precision platformer with speedrun and hit-kill mechanics. Every perfectly timed action pushes you forward. Perform your best acrobatics and moves to free the island creatures from the ambitions of Dr. Luiz RockBone!
Tipsy Woods
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Ranked #6 for The Book of the Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Book of the Alchemist.
Enter a pixelated nightmare as you navigate a haunting forest in search of 8 bottles, all while evading a relentless monster. Can you survive the terror and escape?
Spirit Realm
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Ranked #7 for The Book of the Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Book of the Alchemist.
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Isles of Sea and Sky
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Ranked #8 for The Book of the Alchemist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Book of the Alchemist.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Book of the Alchemist.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Book of the Alchemist.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Book of the Alchemist.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Book of the Alchemist.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Book of the Alchemist.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Book of the Alchemist.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Book of the Alchemist.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Book of the Alchemist
- What games are most similar to The Book of the Alchemist?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Book of the Alchemist are Brucie's Arcade, Space Operators, Wishlair.
- Who developed The Book of the Alchemist?
- The Book of the Alchemist was developed by Umut Ay(00iblis00) and published by İblisGames.
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 Book of the Alchemist.
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