Games like Lexicon
If Lexicon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bach For More Words, LEXICON: Lingua Obscura and Penko Vox: Japanese — 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 Lexicon: A dark fantasy take on the old text based RPG style. Use discovered words to navigate your own mortal through a hand drawn water coloured world. Build your own commands and phrases and save them onto buttons in a beginner friendly system that allows for deep complexity.
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Bach For More Words
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Top pick for Lexicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lexicon.
Bach For More Words is a challenging word game where you unscramble a word and select its definition from three related definitions. Then, you'll pair up the remaining definitions with their matching words. You'll find yourself learning new words without even trying with Bach For More Words!
LEXICON: Lingua Obscura
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Second-strongest match for Lexicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lexicon.
A word based puzzle game where you twist strange rules, uncover hidden patterns, and solve clever linguistic challenges that always feel one step away from revealing something bigger.
Penko Vox: Japanese
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Third-strongest match for Lexicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lexicon.
A local-first, offline-capable AI Japanese language immersion engine. Step into interactive social roleplays with a private tutor and master natural usage across all JLPT levels. No cloud tracking, no subscriptions, just your own private language sandbox powered entirely by your hardware.
Sandbox Jianghu: Walk My Own Path
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Ranked #4 for Lexicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lexicon.
A living MUD-inspired Jianghu simulator featuring ATB combat, dual Sect/Faction social systems, dynamic weather, and reincarnation mechanics. Play via GUI or classic text commands.
Chronicle of Cultivation
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Ranked #5 for Lexicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lexicon.
An ink-wash styled desktop writing companion. Every keystroke a breath, every word a step toward the Dao.
MatchMaker95 - A Programming Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Lexicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Lexicon.
The programming simulator. MatchMaker95 is a cozy(ish) coding tycoon where you write real C++, grow a chaotic dating app startup, unlock game-changing upgrades, and turn lines of code into profit — all inside a lo-fi Win98 desktop.
Rune Log
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Ranked #7 for Lexicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexicon.
Decode a runic cipher, then decide what it truly means. A quiet, occult detective word game: solve each scripture letter by letter, then type your own conclusion to answer a villager's question about a death, a fraud, a haunting, or an old secret.
Everburning Dark 长夜余烬
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Ranked #8 for Lexicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexicon.
Everburning Dark blends 2048-style roguelike merge combat, unlimited AI-driven storytelling, and companion AI bonding. Build with relics and skills, talk freely to reshape each run, and uncover the folk-horror truth of a dying dynasty.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lexicon.
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 Lexicon.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Lexicon.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexicon.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lexicon.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexicon.
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!
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexicon.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lexicon.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Lexicon
- What games are most similar to Lexicon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lexicon are Bach For More Words, LEXICON: Lingua Obscura, Penko Vox: Japanese.
- Who developed Lexicon?
- Lexicon was developed by Jayden Sweeting.
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 Lexicon.
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