Games like Coilbound
If Coilbound is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guaxiang Lu: Trigram Chronicles, Card Warrior and Lamplight — 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 Coilbound: Coilbound is a dark fantasy roguelike where every enemy is a card of hidden traits. Descend a coiling dungeon, read each foe's abilities, and choose your path one card at a time — strike or slip past. But some traits refuse to end: it doesn't die when it dies.
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Guaxiang Lu: Trigram Chronicles
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Top pick for Coilbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coilbound.
Guaxiang Lu: Trigram Chronicles is a Five Elements & Eight Trigrams roguelike deckbuilder. Rise from Qi Refining to ascension: channel coins into Yin and Yang, play cards in the elemental cycle to trigger combos, and collect eight trigram discs to challenge the Heavenly Dao. Your journey begins now！
Card Warrior
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Second-strongest match for Coilbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coilbound.
Card Warrior is a wuxia roguelike card game combining martial arts and card mechanics. Play cards to strike, parry, counterattack, and strike relentlessly when you spot enemies’ flaws. Walk the path of a worrior. What kind of hero will you be?
Lamplight
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Third-strongest match for Coilbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Coilbound.
Lamplight is a deckbuilding turn based roguelike RPG set in Victorian era England. Van Helsing is dead, Dracula has cloaked the old world in darkness, there is only one hope that remains. Take control of one of four characters from classical gothic literature and fight to kill him once and for all.
Capesong
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Ranked #4 for Coilbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Coilbound.
A predictive strategy game for buildcrafters and matchup theorists. Create original superheroes and send them into simultaneous turn-based combat where the right read can be the difference between life and death.
StrategySteam ↗天雨粟
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Ranked #5 for Coilbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coilbound.
Break glyphs into radicals, compose them into Chinese characters, and cast every word as a card. An ink-wash roguelike deckbuilder: five script styles, a three-act campaign, hanging characters that live between turns, and verse-linked combos against demons born from corrupted ink.
13 BONES
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Ranked #6 for Coilbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coilbound.
A fast-paced card battler. Like BLACKJACK, but with added MONSTERS and VIOLENCE. Build your DECK and push your LUCK to earn your freedom !
Bibidi Bibidi!
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Ranked #7 for Coilbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coilbound.
Bibidi Bibidi! is a whimsical deckbuilder where your wizard shouts whatever spell you conjure up. Every card has 3 components that you combine in your spellbook for unique effects. Mix and match incantations like sim-sala-bim and abra-kadabra to zap your way through a dungeon filled with monsters.
Guild's Requiem
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Ranked #8 for Coilbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coilbound.
A dark fantasy deckbuilding roguelike. Run a guild at the edge of a dying world, send your party into the abyss, and win tactical card battles where every fallen light brings the end closer. Build decks across 10 heroes, chain devastating combos, and pay the price for every run.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Coilbound.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Coilbound.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Coilbound.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Coilbound.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Coilbound.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Coilbound.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Coilbound.
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Frequently asked about Coilbound
- What games are most similar to Coilbound?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Coilbound are Guaxiang Lu: Trigram Chronicles, Card Warrior, Lamplight.
- Who developed Coilbound?
- Coilbound was developed by Goblin 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 Coilbound.
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