Games like The Wizard of Gloss
If The Wizard of Gloss is your kind of game, the closest matches are Almos – A Dream Painter's Tale, Li'l Red II and Magical Blush — 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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Steam players who put hours into The Wizard of Gloss 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.
Almos – A Dream Painter's Tale
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Top pick for The Wizard of Gloss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Explore a hand-crafted Metroidvania where dreams and nightmares collide. Master fast-paced combat, craft powerful spells, and harness Color to restore a dying world while uncovering the truth behind the Dream Painters.
Li'l Red II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Wizard of Gloss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Don the red hood and venture into this fabled adventure as Lyra. Metroidvania meets Top-Down Adventure in this challenging, side-scrolling tale.
Magical Blush
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Wizard of Gloss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Magical Blush is a top-down action-adventure where fast-paced elemental combat meets Metroidvania-style exploration. Chain spell combos, exploit elemental weaknesses, rescue survivors, and battle the powerful Elemental Lords as you explore the wondrous world of Wyn.
Spider Dynasty
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Ranked #4 for The Wizard of Gloss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Spider Dynasty is a 2D Metroidvania with a distinctive ink-wash hand-drawn art style. It features original omnidirectional curved traversal and silk-swinging mechanics, plus Souls-like boss battles on irregular platforms, delivering a groundbreaking platform exploration and combat experience.
Ninja Noboken Episode 2
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Ranked #5 for The Wizard of Gloss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
A brutal 2.5D ninja action game built by a solo developer. Fast combat, precision platforming, and intense boss fights inspired by classic hardcore ninja games.
Sutra Pilgrim
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Ranked #6 for The Wizard of Gloss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Set out on a journey through Sutra Pilgrim！ Hone your skills, gather powerful Artifacts, meet steadfast allies, and challenge fearsome Yaoguai Kings. Traverse a vast mythic world inspired by Journey to the West, seek the Sutra Pilgrim, and uncover the hidden truth behind this westbound journey.
Bolt & Whalington
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Ranked #7 for The Wizard of Gloss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Bolt & Whalington is a Metroidvania game where you play as Bolt, a Siamese cat exploring the floating ruins of Whalington. Reshape abilities and rewrite world rules with the "Setting Machine," switch mecha forms to craft weapons, battle enemies, and uncover the secret of Whalington.
Stellar Poetry
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Ranked #8 for The Wizard of Gloss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Wizard of Gloss.
Stellar Poetry is a 2D action adventure game similar to the galaxy Castlevania. The sorceress, who awakens after sensing the call of a mysterious voice, goes on a series of adventures in order to find memories lost due to the curse.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Wizard of Gloss.
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 Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Wizard of Gloss.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wizard of Gloss.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wizard of Gloss.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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More from Dracula's Cave
Other recommendable Steam games by Dracula's Cave, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Lion Quest
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Another title from Dracula's Cave, the studio behind The Wizard of Gloss. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Take Jethro the Lion on a magical journey, traversing space and time to prevent the imminent collapse of the universe. Oh and your friend Ronald the Bear is missing, maybe you can find him whilst you’re out exploring?
LQVE: Lion Quest Versus Expanded
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Another title from Dracula's Cave, the studio behind The Wizard of Gloss. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Jethro and friends return for a hypnotic voyage across the Lion Quest universe. Push the boundaries of time and space in this action-packed platformer and experimental party game for 1–4 players.
M1: A Death in the Desert
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Another title from Dracula's Cave, the studio behind The Wizard of Gloss. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
When M wakes up in an abandoned hotel he has no memory of how he got there. In the bedside draw he finds a list with three names and a gun with three bullets, but what he does with this information is up to you. How far will you go to discover the truth?
Lion Quest Infinity
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Another title from Dracula's Cave, the studio behind The Wizard of Gloss. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
Jethro the Lion and friends steal a magic grandfather clock and embark on an unforgettable adventure. Are they here to save the universe, or is it simply a marketing ploy constructed as part of an elaborate book tour?
Sloth Tales
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Another title from Dracula's Cave, the studio behind The Wizard of Gloss. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
"It's called Sloth Tales and it's about Jimmy's search for his biological father. Quite frankly it's brilliant." – Wordsworth the Panda.
CAPITALISM The action board game for one player
WHY THIS
Another title from Dracula's Cave, the studio behind The Wizard of Gloss. Shares Action and Indie with The Wizard of Gloss.
'CAPITALISM The action board game for one player' is a real-time board game/ card game hybrid with minigames.
Frequently asked about The Wizard of Gloss
- What games are most similar to The Wizard of Gloss?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Wizard of Gloss are Almos – A Dream Painter's Tale, Li'l Red II, Magical Blush.
- Who developed The Wizard of Gloss?
- The Wizard of Gloss was developed by Dracula's Cave.
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 Wizard of Gloss.
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