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Games like Monban: Spirit Gate

If Monban: Spirit Gate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Questmonger, Arcane Rooms and Argonauts Agency: Gorgon Medusa — 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 Monban: Spirit Gate: Run a midnight shrine gate in a pixel-art deduction game. Inspect yokai, catch forged tickets, collect tolls and purify curses across 30 shifts. Then walk the festival as the shrine cat. Discover three endings, chase Endless scores and return for a Daily Shift.

2026StrategyIndieSimulationCasualWindowsby Jack Wilds
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Players who liked Monban: Spirit Gate also play

Steam players who put hours into Monban: Spirit Gate 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. Questmonger

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Monban: Spirit Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    Every RPG has someone handing out quests. In Questmonger, that someone is you. Run a crumbling adventurer’s guild, match heroes to dangerous jobs, lend them gear, and live with the outcome. Heroes die. Rent comes due. The royal inspector remembers every failure.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Arcane Rooms

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Monban: Spirit Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    Arcane Rooms is a magical puzzle adventure. Solve handcrafted rooms filled with runes, traps, water, lava, and mirror worlds, push blocks, activate switches, and use magic wisely, because every spell costs power and every level twists the rules.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure4.04 USDSteam ↗
  3. Argonauts Agency: Gorgon Medusa

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Monban: Spirit Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    Argonauts Agency: Gorgon Medusa: A journey to gather resources, fight petrification, and save your friends and all of Greece!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. CHEMISTRIS 2: Wukong's Crucible

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Monban: Spirit Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    A tetrislike game where Wukong is trapped in the supreme celestial furnace. Can you master the alchemy of matter itself—drop elements, balance equations, and fuse molecules to break out? A handcrafted chemistry puzzler featuring 100+ levels, where every clear triggers a real chemical reaction.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  5. COLOR BOMB!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Monban: Spirit Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    COLOR BOMB!: Just a simple color-matching game.

    2023IndieSimulationCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Trump Jigsaw

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Monban: Spirit Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    Trump jigsaw is jigsaw puzzle game with Trump themed images

    2025IndieSimulationCasual0.49 USDSteam ↗
  7. Text Twist 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Monban: Spirit Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    • Over 1000 Different levels to play. • Complete dictionaries and thousands of levels for English, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish, Dutch, and, French languages. • Easy to play. You can use your touch screen or a mouse to play the game.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Argonauts Agency: Golden Fleece

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Monban: Spirit Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    Argonauts Agency: go on an adventure and solve the case of the missing Golden Fleece!

    2019StrategySimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 and Casual with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    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.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monban: Spirit Gate.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    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 ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    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 ↗

More from Jack Wilds

Other recommendable Steam games by Jack Wilds, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Ironblood

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Jack Wilds, the studio behind Monban: Spirit Gate. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    Run a dark fantasy fighting promotion. Sign gladiators, book matches across five weight divisions, negotiate contracts, and stage Blood Nights. Champions die, legacies rise and fall, and rival promotions hunt the same talent. A living dark fantasy MMA management sim.

    2026SportsStrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Nezumi no Dice

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Jack Wilds, the studio behind Monban: Spirit Gate. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    Build crooked dice, run a rat-run casino, and survive twelve nights of rent, Heat and boss cats in this compact single-player roguelite. Swap 40 dice faces, recruit staff, collect relics and rig every roll until the odds are shamelessly in your favour.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Jumpshot

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Jack Wilds, the studio behind Monban: Spirit Gate. Shares Indie with Monban: Spirit Gate.

    A pixel-art RPG where every battle is a basketball showdown. Explore a strange Japanese town, meet oddball rivals, time your shots and blocks, and build your HYPE. The moon has declared itself MVP. Grab your dad's old basketball and challenge it.

    2026ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Monban: Spirit Gate

What games are most similar to Monban: Spirit Gate?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monban: Spirit Gate are Questmonger, Arcane Rooms, Argonauts Agency: Gorgon Medusa.
Who developed Monban: Spirit Gate?
Monban: Spirit Gate was developed by Jack Wilds.

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 Monban: Spirit Gate.

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