Games like Kogaion
If Kogaion is your kind of game, the closest matches are POKOR, Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit and Escape to Ariah — 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 Kogaion: Command the Kogai—mysterious creatures born from the Watchers' rebellion—in a dark fantasy rogue-lite monster collector. Master tactical 6v6 turn-based combat, exploit strict elemental paths, and customize your Warden skill tree to conquer a dangerous, ever-changing supernatural world.
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Steam players who put hours into Kogaion 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.
POKOR
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kogaion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kogaion.
POKOR is a story-driven roguelike tactical turn-based card RPG. Players take on the role of Heart, commanding a deck of playing card soldiers to engage in turn-based battles against enemies as they venture deeper into a vast, pale, and ever-changing palace to uncover the truth and the true self.
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kogaion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kogaion.
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit is the grand finale to the tactical RPG trilogy. Command a massive cast of returning heroes in the series’ most strategic entry yet. Master evolved turn-based combat, guide your army through tactical challenges, and witness the conclusion to every character's story.
Escape to Ariah
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kogaion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Kogaion.
Strategically use runes on a mystical grid in this tactical roguelike deckbuilder. Choose a character with unique abilities and runes for a variety of build ideas. Can you survive your quest to escape to Ariah?
Among Demons
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Kogaion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kogaion.
Build a team of demons, survive endless dungeon runs, and explore a shared online world. Recruit defeated enemies, create powerful builds, extract before losing everything, and defeat challenging world bosses to earn lasting buffs.
Cell Command
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Kogaion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kogaion.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
Dark Deity
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Kogaion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kogaion.
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Crown and Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Kogaion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Kogaion.
An open-world adventure RPG. Choose your favorite character, train your elite legion step by step, and crush all enemies on the battlefield. Strengthen yourself, establish a powerful family, create a great dynasty, and become the dominator of this fantasy world.
Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Kogaion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Kogaion.
Swordhaven is a party‑based low‑magic fantasy cRPG with a deep character creation system, rich storytelling, and seamless turn‑based/RTwP combat. Explore Nova Drakonia, uncover ancient secrets, meet hundreds of NPCs with unique quests, and shape the fate of the world through your choices.
Free alternatives
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Kogaion.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kogaion.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kogaion.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Kogaion.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kogaion.
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!
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kogaion.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kogaion.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kogaion.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Cell Command
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kogaion.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
Dark Deity
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kogaion.
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Kogaion.
Swordhaven is a party‑based low‑magic fantasy cRPG with a deep character creation system, rich storytelling, and seamless turn‑based/RTwP combat. Explore Nova Drakonia, uncover ancient secrets, meet hundreds of NPCs with unique quests, and shape the fate of the world through your choices.
Frequently asked about Kogaion
- What games are most similar to Kogaion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kogaion are POKOR, Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit, Escape to Ariah.
- Who developed Kogaion?
- Kogaion was developed by Carpathian-Raven Studio.
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 Kogaion.
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