Games like Etymancy
If Etymancy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Low Magic They Said, HARMA and Archon Soul: Prologue — 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 Etymancy: 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.
Players who liked Etymancy also play
Steam players who put hours into Etymancy 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.
Low Magic They Said
WHY THIS
Top pick for Etymancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Etymancy.
A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where broken builds are a feature, not a bug. Think Slay the Spire meets the unforgiving difficulty of Dark Souls, with Diablo 2's philosophy of letting you discover ridiculously powerful builds yourself. They lied about the magic being low.
HARMA
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Etymancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Etymancy.
HARMA is a retro dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilding game featuring a story-driven campaign. Uncover the truth behind the fallen knights, the burning kingdom, and your missing father. Harness the power of mighty artifacts to defeat demons and save a world on the brink of destruction.
Archon Soul: Prologue
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Etymancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etymancy.
Archon Soul is a 2D roguelike dice-builder where you create powerful dice using swappable faces, runes, and bodies with unique effects. Draft spells, craft powerful synergies, defeat challenging enemies, and conquer the Archon's palace.
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Etymancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Etymancy.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Into The Grid
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Etymancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Etymancy.
Become a master hacker in this Cyberpunk Roguelike Deckbuilder. Explore the dangers of cyberspace and fight evil corporations. Build and upgrade a deck of powerful programs. Unlock perks and skills, and unleash digital hell on your enemies. Dive Into The Grid!
Become the Moon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Etymancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Etymancy.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Etymancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Etymancy.
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!
Super Fantasy Kingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Etymancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Etymancy.
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Etymancy.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Etymancy.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Etymancy.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Etymancy.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Etymancy.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Etymancy.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Etymancy.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Etymancy.
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!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Etymancy.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Etymancy.
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!
Super Fantasy Kingdom
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Etymancy.
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Frequently asked about Etymancy
- What games are most similar to Etymancy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Etymancy are Low Magic They Said, HARMA, Archon Soul: Prologue.
- Who developed Etymancy?
- Etymancy was developed by Hotate and published by Spawn Kill Studios.
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 Etymancy.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.