Games like SAMPO
If SAMPO is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dala and the Cursed Forest, Bibidi Bibidi! and Volatica: The Devil's Trap — 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 SAMPO: Sampo is a Kalevala-inspired roguelite deckbuilder rooted in Finnish mythology, where you forge powerful rune combos, battle mythical creatures, and quest through a world of ancient magic to claim the legendary Sampo.
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Steam players who put hours into SAMPO 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.
Dala and the Cursed Forest
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Top pick for SAMPO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAMPO.
Fuse cards. Evolve your build. Break the cycle. Dala and the Cursed Forest is a roguelike deckbuilder rooted in Southeast Asian forest mythology. Every card combination reshapes how you fight. Lift the curse before the forest consumes you.
Bibidi Bibidi!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SAMPO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAMPO.
Bibidi Bibidi! is a wizardcore roguelike deckbuilder where you combine cards in your spellbook to cast unique and powerful spells. Crawl through twisting tunnels and fight maddening monsters to find the perfect build for your wizard. Every turn is a puzzle!
Volatica: The Devil's Trap
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SAMPO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAMPO.
Volatica: The Devil's Trap is a Roguelike Deckbuilder with grim hand-drawn illustrations, dark humor and a branching story. Take on the role of a witch who got trapped by her desires after making a deal with the devil.
Become the Moon
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Ranked #4 for SAMPO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAMPO.
Become the Moon is a challenging, deckbuilding auto battler. Choose from 10 unique characters, each with their own distinct playstyles. Assemble a team of powerful minions & cast cosmic spells where every run takes you one step closer to the moon.
Solnox - Grimoire of Seasons
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Ranked #5 for SAMPO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAMPO.
Wield the power of the seasons to push back corruption and take back nature from tainted enemy hordes. Manipulate the ever-changing battlefield with your deck of rune stones. Plan your turns and use powerful synergies to your advantage. Choose your path wisely and unlock new classes as you prevail.
Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure
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Ranked #6 for SAMPO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAMPO.
What if you combine the best of story-driven RPGs with the strategic decision-making of cardgames? Dawncaster was created to answer that question, containing over 1100 handcrafted cards and over 100 unique challenges designed by veterans of the cardgame genre.
Monster Train
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Ranked #7 for SAMPO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with SAMPO.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Black Book
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Ranked #8 for SAMPO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAMPO.
“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SAMPO.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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 SAMPO.
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 with SAMPO.
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 SAMPO.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SAMPO.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SAMPO.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SAMPO.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SAMPO.
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.
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Frequently asked about SAMPO
- What games are most similar to SAMPO?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SAMPO are Dala and the Cursed Forest, Bibidi Bibidi!, Volatica: The Devil's Trap.
- Who developed SAMPO?
- SAMPO was developed by Revontuli Games.
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 SAMPO.
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