Games like Ink & Lore
If Ink & Lore is your kind of game, the closest matches are Omen of the Godless, Ink & Void and Keepers Of Vyrellia — 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 Ink & Lore: A roguelike of cards that vanish once used, across 99 floors. Lead two stationery guardians through a picture book someone stopped drawing—dried ink, a broken story, forgotten people. Level up; equip sword, shield, bookmark. Each finite move is life or death. At the end of the world waits that—
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Omen of the Godless
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Top pick for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ink & Lore.
A first-person roguelike deckbuilder where you build elemental decks, battle through branching node maps, unlock permanent cards, and strategically choose your path as each victory increases the difficulty of remaining challenges.
Ink & Void
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Second-strongest match for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ink & Lore.
A storybook tower defense where stationery knights fight the Void. Deploy pencil swordsmen, fountain pen mages, and eraser monks across four chapters. Evolve units via class changes and build your deck with cards earned each stage. Languages: Japanese / English / Chinese
Keepers Of Vyrellia
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Third-strongest match for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ink & Lore.
A retro Pixel Art deck builder roguelike with '80s vibes, where you can not only customize your deck and weapons, but you can also choose to use your cards in attack mode or defense mode!
Last Ember
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Ranked #4 for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ink & Lore.
We fused deckbuilding and roguelikes into the ultimate single-player experience. Build a unique deck, summon dinosaurs to crush your enemies, and discover powerful relics to protect the Last Ember.
Cursed Labyrinth Redux
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Ranked #5 for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ink & Lore.
Incomparable deck building new type hack & slash card battle game is reborn! ■New Type Hack & Slash Card Battle with Curse Magic ■Simple to play ■Create Your Own Strategy by Deck Building ■Freely Grow Skill System and Release Job Skill ■Dungeon with Unique Enemies
Soul Monsters: The Machine Kingdom and the Lich Queen
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Ranked #6 for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ink & Lore.
A story-driven roguelike deckbuilder set in the war between the Machine Kingdom and the Lich Queen. Build your deck, gather relics, and battle through 75 stages to uncover the truth binding four intertwined destinies.
深渊书简
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Ranked #7 for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ink & Lore.
深渊之书是一款克苏鲁风格的多人组队冒险类卡牌构筑Rouguelike游戏。每个角色除自身卡牌构筑外，还可以通过游戏特有的深渊“书简”和“追忆”形成技能连携、给予敌人额外伤害。玩家将组织一支自杀探险小队，接受女伯爵委托，前往神秘的深渊群岛去探寻疯狂黑公爵的秘密。
Swords and Sandals 3 Redux
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Ranked #8 for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ink & Lore.
A legend returns! The beloved classic Swords and Sandals 3 is back, re-forged in glory! Step back into the Gladiae Ultratus once more and prepare to take on the greatest gladiators in all Brandor. It's the hardest, most metal gladiator game ever made.
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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 with Ink & Lore.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ink & Lore.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ink & Lore.
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 with Ink & Lore.
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 Indie with Ink & Lore.
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 with Ink & Lore.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ink & Lore.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Ink & Lore
- What games are most similar to Ink & Lore?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ink & Lore are Omen of the Godless, Ink & Void, Keepers Of Vyrellia.
- Who developed Ink & Lore?
- Ink & Lore was developed by Shintaro Higashi.
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 Ink & Lore.
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