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Games like Tomes and Tactics

If Tomes and Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Toward The Ice, SRD: Slightly Random Dungeons and Wizardry: The Five Ordeals — 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.

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About Tomes and Tactics: A deep, single-player turn-based RPG. Build one character across 60 levels and 13 distinct classes, explore a hand-crafted world lit by a custom vision engine, and face death the old way — leave a corpse, rise as a ghost, and walk back to reclaim it.

IndieRPGWindows · Linuxby Gnomish Games
Tomes and Tactics — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Tomes and Tactics 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. Toward The Ice

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Tomes and Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Toward The Ice is a classic first-person party-based dungeon crawler RPG with grid-based movement and turn-based combat. Venture into the frozen north and help a fair princess rescue her idiot brother from Troll kidnappers.

    2026RPG13.49 USDSteam ↗
  2. SRD: Slightly Random Dungeons

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Tomes and Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    A tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) simulator. Gather a company of quarrelsome mercenaries and set forth through the adventures of the Guilds and Gutters Campaign setting, or use the intuitive adventure building tools to craft your own campaign to challenge your friends or unleash upon the world.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Wizardry: The Five Ordeals

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Tomes and Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Welcome to the world of dungeon crawling! The classic dungeon crawler released back in 2006, returns to Steam with improved UI and more.

    2023IndieRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Tomes and Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.

    2023RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Tomes and Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown is a classic western RPG inspired by the games from the 90s. Basically, it’s the kind of game I personally find missing nowadays. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous and without the need of endless grind to progress.

    2019RPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Tomes and Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Cyclopean: The Great Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Tomes and Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Might & Magic X - Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Tomes and Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    After a decade, a Might & Magic® RPG is back with both the unique core formula and a new set of improved and fine-tuned features. The best RPG of its class!In the wake of the spectacular events in Might & Magic® Heroes® VI, you will play in a party of four adventurers entangled in intrigue and political machinations unfolding in...

    2014RPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  5. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

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

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  6. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Aircar

    WHY THIS

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

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tomes and Tactics.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Tomes and Tactics

What games are most similar to Tomes and Tactics?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tomes and Tactics are Toward The Ice, SRD: Slightly Random Dungeons, Wizardry: The Five Ordeals.
Who developed Tomes and Tactics?
Tomes and Tactics was developed by Gnomish Games.

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 Tomes and Tactics.

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