Games like Balingo
If Balingo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Politaire/Heroes, Hand-me-downs and Etymancy — 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 Balingo: Balingo is a bingo roguelike where every ball counts. Buy bingo cards, mark numbers, and combine tickets, stamps, markers, and marbles to create unique combos and reach ever-higher scores before you run out of balls.
Players who liked Balingo also play
Steam players who put hours into Balingo 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.
Politaire/Heroes
WHY THIS
Top pick for Balingo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balingo.
From Politaire, Apple’s award-winning classic. A new Solitaire roguelite where heroes, poker hands, and chaos collide.
Hand-me-downs
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Balingo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balingo.
A roguelike deckbuilder where your opponents use your own cards against you. Cheat your opponents out of the most powerful cards. Collect trinkets to supercharge your score. Discover sinful synergies by corrupting your cards.
Etymancy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Balingo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balingo.
Etymancy is a dark fantasy roguelike dungeon crawler where every spell is a word. Craft your pile of magic letter tiles, collect strange grimoires to grow stronger, smite enemies, and descend deeper into the Lexicon.
Net Raiders
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Balingo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balingo.
Net Raiders is a strategic roguelike deck-building game where you play by performing Card Merge.To survive the dangers of a crumbling virtual world, merge the cards in your hand and find the best moves to defeat the enemies you face!
Card Slay
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Balingo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balingo.
The poker roguelike where the House fights back. Chase the flush, sweat the last discard, then slam it down and watch the damage hit: red suits strike, black suits shield. The monsters read your hand, call your ranks and cheat, so stack your ritual deck, out-cheat them, and slay your fate.
Devil Tower Note
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Balingo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balingo.
Instant-response Combat Card Game, Side-scrolling Card Magic Tower, a roguelike "Magic Tower" single-player game that blends "platform jumping" and "card battles"! Plan your route and encounter enemies through platform jumping, then defeat them with strategic card duels!
ScavRail
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Balingo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balingo.
The definitive fox stealth extraction game. You’re a fox exploring an open-world on post-human Earth, scavenging for food and artifacts. Avoid patrolling enemies, carefully manage your loot, and safely escape with everything you’ve collected!
Camedieo
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Balingo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Balingo.
A score chase roguelike deckbuilder played with dice. Every hand splits in two: the dice you Cast and the ones you Outcast. The points from each are multiplied together to produce your score. Collect cameos, upgrade your deck using cups and try to break the scoreboard!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Balingo.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Balingo.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Balingo.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Balingo.
‘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 Balingo.
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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Frequently asked about Balingo
- What games are most similar to Balingo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Balingo are Politaire/Heroes, Hand-me-downs, Etymancy.
- Who developed Balingo?
- Balingo was developed by Lobby1903.
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 Balingo.
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