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Games like Nerdook's Library of Life Stories

If Nerdook's Library of Life Stories is your kind of game, the closest matches are NINE ROUNDS RAPID, Tipsy Corpse and Mystic Gate — 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 Nerdook's Library of Life Stories: Nerdook's Library of Life Stories is a 4-player local coop dungeon crawler where you and your friends play as famous fairy tale characters, gathering a collection of useful Life Stories that I learned from many years as a stay-at-home dad of three kids.

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Steam players who put hours into Nerdook's Library of Life Stories 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. NINE ROUNDS RAPID

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Nerdook's Library of Life Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Blast your way to freedom, solo or with a friend in online or local co-op, through a possessed, fragmenting space station. Upgrade abilities, mod your weapon builds, and manipulate time to defeat the station's nine gatekeepers. Power up, progress, and learn the ugly truth with every escape attempt.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Tipsy Corpse

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Nerdook's Library of Life Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Zombies, monsters and demonic creatures have taken over the town. Someone has to deal with it. A twin-stick rogue-lite where your weapons, your cocktails and the environment can become your allies; as well as the friend sitting next to you who won't settle for just watching!

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Mystic Gate

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Nerdook's Library of Life Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    A Mystic Gate created by the gods suddenly appears in the human world. Adventurers challenge themselves with the tests that await them beyond the gate. In order to earn your wish you must defeat hordes & bosses in this roguelike dungeon exploration bullet hell!!

    2023ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Chicken Must Fry

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Nerdook's Library of Life Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Chicken Must Fry is a survivor-like game where you play as a raw chicken refusing to be fried, wiping out monsters from the ruthless Frying Empire. Combine various skills and items, upgrade your characters, and survive the endless waves of enemies!

    2026ActionCasualSteam ↗
  5. Hexwell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Nerdook's Library of Life Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Hexwell is a top-down action roguelite where you use powerful magic spells to fight off hordes of arcane machines. Choose your path through the dungeon, fuse your spells together, create unique builds, and become the ultimate mage!

    2026ActionCasualSteam ↗
  6. SUPER DEBT

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Nerdook's Library of Life Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Money is your life in SUPER DEBT! Fight to survive with an arsenal of wildly different weapons and upgrades. In this intense and challenging Twin-Stick Bullet-Hell Roguelike everything costs money, and we mean everything!

    2027ActionIndieSteam ↗
  7. Ghostslayers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Nerdook's Library of Life Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Ghostslayers is a wave-based top-down coop shooter where you slay the ghosts with magic and couple thousands of bullets... Or punches, or slashes, or explosions. Use the varied weaponry, spell cards and abilities, combine them together and obliterate absolutely everything.

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  8. Furcifer's Fungeon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Nerdook's Library of Life Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    An autoscrolling roguelike where everything you do impacts your talent options. Become a necromancer goose, or a berserker wielding a thunder blade! Collect legendary items in each run, and bring them back home for even more build options in the future.

    2026ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  7. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

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

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Nerdook Productions

Other recommendable Steam games by Nerdook Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Monster Slayers

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Nerdook's Library of Life Stories. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.

    2017ActionIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Reverse Crawl

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Nerdook's Library of Life Stories. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    A dungeon crawl where YOU are the dungeon! Lead your minions in tactical turn-based combat against the pesky heroes, and unlock a variety of evil Powers. With a dynamic campaign system and a branching storyline, "Reverse Crawl" lets you experience an RPG from a whole new angle!

    2015ActionStrategyAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Rogue AI Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 魔物讨伐团

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Nerdook's Library of Life Stories. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    卡牌与RPG结合的无尽地牢探险之旅!最早融合Roguelike与卡牌的游戏之一。多达14种职业,真人配音+纸娃娃系统,完善的卡牌设计,各类魔物与随机事件等你体验!

    2018ActionStrategyIndie1.03 USDSteam ↗
  5. Vertical Drop Heroes HD

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Nerdook's Library of Life Stories. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.

    2014ActionRPG6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Magister

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Nerdook's Library of Life Stories. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    The Magister is a murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customise your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and discover motives as you investigate the death of your predecessor and unmask the guilty culprit.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Magister - The First Two Days

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Nerdook's Library of Life Stories. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    The Magister: The First Two Days gives you the chance to begin your investigation in this murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customize your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and investigate the death of your predecessor!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Kill A Million Rats

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Nerdook's Library of Life Stories. Shares Action with Nerdook's Library of Life Stories.

    A base-building, Roguelike Action/Turn-based Strategy (RATS) game, in a forest invaded by a million Rats. As the powerful Spirit of Vengeance, you must save the adorable Villagers! Explore a randomly generated world, expand your village, and exterminate the Rats!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie10.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Nerdook's Library of Life Stories

Does Nerdook's Library of Life Stories have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Nerdook's Library of Life Stories supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Nerdook's Library of Life Stories?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nerdook's Library of Life Stories are NINE ROUNDS RAPID, Tipsy Corpse, Mystic Gate.
Who developed Nerdook's Library of Life Stories?
Nerdook's Library of Life Stories was developed by Nerdook Productions.

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