Games like Illustack
If Illustack is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tiled Gambit, Kyvos and The Hero and His Friends — 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 Illustack: Cyber psychedelic roguelike Tetris with exquisite micro-pixel art, multi-style polished BGM and level rotation. Stack to build your unique tower with rhythm.
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Tiled Gambit
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Top pick for Illustack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
Tiled Gambit is a minesweeper inspired roguelike where every grid is a new gamble!
Kyvos
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Illustack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
A dice roguelike. Build your own dice face by face, combine special effects, and fight enemy cards with unique abilities in fast-paced runs full of luck, strategy, and tension.
The Hero and His Friends
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Third-strongest match for Illustack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Illustack.
A fantasy roguelike adventure with unique card battles. Recruit companions and battle enemies using Companion Cards, where each round compares a random stat. Every companion has unique abilities that change the rules of combat. Build your team, adapt your strategy, and shape your own adventure.
Pegs of Hell
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Ranked #4 for Illustack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Illustack.
A physics roguelike where you build the pachinko board yourself. Place and upgrade pegs, arrange powerful Arcana, split balls, trigger elemental chains and create absurd scoring machines before Hell's rent catches up with you.
Coinsweeper
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Ranked #5 for Illustack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
Coinsweeper is a roguelite that combines classic Minesweeper with risk management, deck-building and gambling mechanics.
Billiard Rampage
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Ranked #6 for Illustack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Illustack.
Billiard Rampage is a Roguelike-like game in the form of snooker billiards, blending deck-building with physics simulation. You play as a billiard ball that refuses to be struck, rolling toward victory by building your deck, collecting stickers, and using chalk in ever-changing rules.
Scrambled Ships
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Ranked #7 for Illustack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
A Yacht Dice Roguelike set on a ship with a mysterious figure, trapped in an endless game night atop a sunset cruise. Think outside the box, buy items, and progress through the rounds, or fall to the ever-increasing score targets.
Mictla
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Ranked #8 for Illustack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
A challenging Puzzle Roguelike Deckbuilder inspired by Mesoamerican mythology where strategy is everything. Hard to master. Impossible to forget.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Illustack at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~54% under Illustack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Illustack.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~54% under Illustack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Illustack.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~42% under Illustack on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
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Priced ~54% under Illustack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Illustack.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~54% under Illustack on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~54% under Illustack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Illustack.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~91% under Illustack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Illustack.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~54% under Illustack on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Illustack.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Illustack.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Illustack.
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?
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 Casual with Illustack.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Illustack.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Illustack.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Illustack.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Illustack
- How much does Illustack cost?
- Illustack is listed on Steam at 10.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Illustack?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Illustack are Tiled Gambit, Kyvos, The Hero and His Friends.
- Who developed Illustack?
- Illustack was developed by Subaiism.
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 Illustack.
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