Games like TALES: INK GUARDIAN
If TALES: INK GUARDIAN is your kind of game, the closest matches are FORJ, Tamespire and Realmlords — 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 TALES: INK GUARDIAN: A 2D roguelike where ink and plants define your fate. Combine skills, relics, and plant abilities to craft a unique build every run. Purify the Void Ink threatening to consume the world — because no two runs, and no two strategies, are ever the same.
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FORJ
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Top pick for TALES: INK GUARDIAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
Fight through cursed arenas, extract with the loot, and reforge it into power. A co-op action roguelite where hand-built golems mine, craft and run your shop while you battle, and every weapon can be enhanced, imbued, socketed and rerolled at your forge.
Tamespire
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Second-strongest match for TALES: INK GUARDIAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
A cozy-dark creature-collection roguelite deckbuilder. Tame Spirelings, fuse their moves into a living deck, and climb a Spire that rebuilds itself every run. Evolve your team, master five clashing elements, and push your luck through endless Ascensions.
Realmlords
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Third-strongest match for TALES: INK GUARDIAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
REALMLORDS is a fast‑paced Bullet‑hell / Spell-hell roguelite with 12 distinct classes, each offering unique weapons, abilities, and build paths. Explore 9 dangerous Randomly Generated Elemental Realms filled with unique monsters, hazards, and loot as you fight to survive each run.
Area Survivors
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Ranked #4 for TALES: INK GUARDIAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
Area Survivors is a top-down survival action game where you fight off relentless hordes of enemies and struggle to stay alive. Defeat enemies to grow stronger, upgrade your weapons and skills, and take on increasingly powerful foes and massive waves of enemies.
Shotgun Rogue
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Ranked #5 for TALES: INK GUARDIAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
Shotgun Rogue is a fast-paced roguelite where you defend your home from waves of enemies. Upgrade weapons, build turrets and traps, and unlock passive abilities each round. Create powerful combos, fortify your base, and survive as long as you can.
HomunCat: and the Blind Mansion
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Ranked #6 for TALES: INK GUARDIAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
This game is an exploration-oriented 3D collection and escape game. Avoid sound-sensitive blind monsters, wander through dark rooms throughout the mansion, and escape the mansion by collecting hidden mana pieces from each room. Cooperation is such an important game at the same time as adventure.
PinPow
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Ranked #7 for TALES: INK GUARDIAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
PinPow is a turn-based roguelike pinball RPG where you play as a hero sucked into an otherworldly pinball machine - battling your way through chaotic dungeons, and enemies to defeat the evil Pinball Wizard. Strategize your shots, upgrade your hero, and bounce your way to victory!
CRYMELIGHT
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Ranked #8 for TALES: INK GUARDIAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
CRYMELIGHT is a roguelike action game set in the world of the afterlife, where girls confront their sins as they fight to gain their freedom.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
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.
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 and Adventure with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
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.
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 TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
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 TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
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.
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside TALES: INK GUARDIAN are FORJ, Tamespire, Realmlords.
- Who developed TALES: INK GUARDIAN?
- TALES: INK GUARDIAN was developed by OSSE.
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