Games like Ink & Lore
If Ink & Lore is your kind of game, the closest matches are Craftaway: Tactics, Glitch Hunter: L-Virus Outbreak and Omen of the Godless — 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 99-floor roguelike of cards that vanish the moment they're played. Lead two guardians of living stationery into a picture book someone stopped drawing. Your cards are finite—choosing when to spend them is life or death. And at the end of the world waits the one who—
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Craftaway: Tactics
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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.
Fight, Strategize, and Power up in this tactical roguelite with progression, equipment, card crafting, and campaigns! DEMO COMING SOON!
Glitch Hunter: L-Virus Outbreak
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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.
Glitch Hunter: L-Virus Outbreak is a roguelike deckbuilder set inside a corrupted simulation. The mysterious L-Virus has infected the game world, breaking its data and turning everything into distorted low-poly fragments. Monsters, environments, and even the rules of reality have been rewritten.
Omen of the Godless
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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 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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Ranked #4 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
Myriad Gambit
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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.
Myriad Gambit is a mythic Chinese auto battler. Pick a hero, recruit across 8 shifting tribes, and master a 7-slot formation against 7 AI rivals. Upgrade units into golden True Forms, cast spells, and adapt builds to conquer multi-phase Hell boss trials.
Cursed Labyrinth Redux
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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.
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
Song's Fantasy
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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.
This Chinese martial arts sandbox game blends character growth, adventure, survival, and building. It offers varied regions, towns, factions, engaging NPC interactions, and branching narratives. The combat system is novel, focusing on troop arrangement and skill cards, with replayable talent points.
Montabi
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Ranked #8 for Ink & Lore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ink & Lore.
Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi in this Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!
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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.
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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 Craftaway: Tactics, Glitch Hunter: L-Virus Outbreak, Omen of the Godless.
- 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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