Games like rook
If rook is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kill The Nova, Seferia Matrix and SlotsNStocks — 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.
Players who liked rook also play
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.
Kill The Nova
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Top pick 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!
Seferia Matrix
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Second-strongest match for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
Roll dice, match combos, cast devastating spells. A roguelite deckbuilder where Yahtzee meets arcane magic — collect 200+ relics, engrave powerful sigils, and master three schools of sorcery.
SlotsNStocks
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Third-strongest match for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
Rig the market in this deckbuilding slot machine roguelike. Draft hundreds of bearish and bullish symbols into your trading machine, collect powerful relics, and manipulate the odds to hit grueling weekly margin calls and avoid going bust.
Scoundrel
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Ranked #4 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
A solo card roguelite where a single shuffled deck is the entire dungeon. Draw four, face three, survive the deck. Fast runs, brutal choices, just one more.
Ledgermain
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Ranked #5 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
A roguelite deckbuilder about one thing: watching the numbers go up. Stack cards, chain jokers, and stamp your deck into an engine that snowballs from thousands into the billions.
Calypso
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Ranked #6 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with rook.
Calypso is the roguelike dice-builder! Roll dice to score big and earn powerful game-changing upgrades. Buy cards to enhance your score, and chips to upgrade your dice. Rinse and repeat to create the ultimate dice scoring Rube Goldberg machine!
StrategySteam ↗RentPoly
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Ranked #7 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!
Seize Siege TD
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Ranked #8 for rook fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with rook.
Build a deck to protect your king in this tower defense! Select your king, your cards and create your combos.
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.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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 Kill The Nova, Seferia Matrix, SlotsNStocks.
- 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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