Games like rook
If rook is your kind of game, the closest matches are Seferia Matrix, RentPoly and Ludus Deceptor — 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 rook: rook is a chess deckbuilding roguelike. cover your board in stickers and stack spare tiles to supercharge the cascading chaos and watch your scores go exponential, maybe then you might just survive the gauntlet.
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Steam players who put hours into rook 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.
Seferia Matrix
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Top pick for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
A dice roguelike deckbuilder — Lock & Roll five dice to complete a hand, and the hand casts a spell. Flip the faces you're missing with sigils, stack 200 artifacts into the scoring formula, and watch runs explode into ridiculous scores. When the run ends, your training stays.
RentPoly
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Second-strongest match for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
RentPoly is a roguelike real-estate board game. Build your own real estate empire, squeeze rent from tenants, and become a billionaire!
Ludus Deceptor
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Third-strongest match for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
Ludus Deceptor is a dark roguelike card game about risk, deception, and cursed bets. Battle at the card table, build powerful combinations, use bonuses, curses, interactive cards, and various items to escape prison, survive the royal court, and claim the throne.
DEAD SPIN
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Ranked #4 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
Gamble your way through a deadly casino in this dark roguelite deckbuilder. Survive the campaign or challenge other players in PvP mode. Discover broken synergies and keep spinning for your freedom!
Kill The Nova
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Ranked #5 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
Classic puzzle meets roguelike deck-building! Collect a variety of unique pieces, build powerful synergies, and unleash overwhelmingly inflated scores through explosive “multipliers.” Smash impossible numbers straight into your enemies and beat up the final boss—the developer himself!
SORTALIS
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Ranked #6 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
A pixel-art dice roguelike. Roll six honest dice, then spend eight Antes engraving their faces, swapping their materials and stacking Charms into a machine that cannot lose - while the House keeps changing the rules. Push your luck. Break the math.
MataOno
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Ranked #7 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
You've never rolled big ones quite like this. MataOno is a chaotic dice roguelike deckbuilder about assembling dice and building combos that massively cascade out of control. Pair item effects to stack your multipliers and turn single-digit rolls into numbers that can't even fit on your screen.
Revolith
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Ranked #8 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
A roguelike reel-builder where synergies spiral out of control. Build and upgrade your machine, then spin, nudge, and hold your way into absurd combo chains. Every reel matters, every decision compounds - can you beat the house before it breaks you?
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Free alternatives
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with rook.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with rook.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with rook.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
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Frequently asked about rook
- What games are most similar to rook?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside rook are Seferia Matrix, RentPoly, Ludus Deceptor.
- Who developed rook?
- rook was developed by gregory hodson and published by updog.
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 rook.
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