IMHO.

Games like Salt Chapel

If Salt Chapel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Reigns, Hell Deck and SOLITAIRE.EXE: Klondike with a Slot Habit — 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 Salt Chapel: Salt Chapel is a dark roguelite deckbuilder where your deck is your crew. Recruit strange sailors, inherit their cards and burdens, sail a haunted sea, and fight horrors in battles driven by unique Black Metal songs.

StrategyIndieAdventureWindowsby escape2echo
Salt Chapel — Steam game cover

Players who liked Salt Chapel also play

Steam players who put hours into Salt Chapel 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.

  1. Rogue Reigns

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Salt Chapel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Salt Chapel.

    Rogue Reigns is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about trust and sacrifice. Lead selfish antiheroes through a world where death is no more, and something still hunts them. Build synergies that bind them or rivalries that break them. Nobody dies, some are sacrificed, but everybody is condemned.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Hell Deck

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Salt Chapel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Salt Chapel.

    Collect units and build powerful synergies on a restricted grid in Hell Deck, a dark roguelike deckbuilder defense game. Construct your own bizarre, twisted ecosystem through a brutal cycle of predation and sacrifice, and defend hell from the holy swarm

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  3. SOLITAIRE.EXE: Klondike with a Slot Habit

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Salt Chapel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Salt Chapel.

    The solitaire roguelike that wants your soul. Clock in, clear each deal to make payroll, then install cursed floppy-disk plugins to chain outrageous combos. Survive the performance reviews. Get PROMOTED, or get TERMINATED. Klondike, with a slot habit.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  4. Ledgermain

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Salt Chapel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Salt Chapel.

    A roguelite deckbuilder about one thing: watching the numbers go up. Stack cards, chain jokers, and stamp your deck into an engine that snowballs from thousands into the billions.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  5. till death ROLLS us apart

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Salt Chapel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Salt Chapel.

    "till death ROLLS us apart" is a roguelike dice battler where you collect new dice, stack powerful modifiers, and unleash huge combos in stylish, fast-paced duels.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. INFERIUS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Salt Chapel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Salt Chapel.

    Descend through nine dominions of Hell in a first-person horror roguelike deckbuilder. Wield Major Arcana tarot cards, upgrade your deck between deaths, use your lantern to survive the dark, and defeat each ruler before your sanity breaks.

    2027StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Soulsworn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Salt Chapel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Salt Chapel.

    A Yu-Gi-Oh!-inspired roguelike where you fuse any two monsters and create your own custom cards. No mana, no restrictions: combo off, break boards, and OTK your way out of hell.

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  8. Sorry, My King

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Salt Chapel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Salt Chapel.

    A 1-bit pixel roguelite where every step costs time and every coin feeds the system. Explore procedural maps, fight card battles, and gather 5000 gold in 7 days to pay your debt to the king. Or discover why the debt exists at all.

    2027StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Salt Chapel.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Salt Chapel.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Salt Chapel.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Salt Chapel.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salt Chapel.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salt Chapel.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Salt Chapel.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salt Chapel.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Salt Chapel

What games are most similar to Salt Chapel?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Salt Chapel are Rogue Reigns, Hell Deck, SOLITAIRE.EXE: Klondike with a Slot Habit.
Who developed Salt Chapel?
Salt Chapel was developed by escape2echo.

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 Salt Chapel.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.