Games like Mato
If Mato is your kind of game, the closest matches are Never's End, Raise the banners and Ironwake — 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 Mato: Mato is a narrative card adventure steeped in Chinese folk horror. Swipe to make choices, manage hunger and sanity, and fight grotesque creatures. Explore branching stories across cycles of death and rebirth, using what you learn to find a way off the mountain.
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Never's End
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Top pick for Mato fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mato.
Master a deeply systemic battlefield where every force interacts. Move heat to create wind, shift humidity to change the weather, and compress the earth, turning rock into lava. Possess townsfolk, explore an open world, and fight back the ever-creeping Never in this turn-based tactical RPG.
Raise the banners
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mato fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mato.
An unforgiving medieval fantasy RPG of map conquest, moral choices, party combat, and army-scale sieges. It's time to raise the banners!
Ironwake
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mato fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mato.
A gothic turn-based roguelite with a deep customization system via equipment, ability trees, and pet development. Become a keeper of the Ironwake gates. it. Raise a creature from an egg to adulthood. Descend ever-shifting dungeons for legendary loot. Grow your relationships with the town and ascend.
Company Captain: Westashes
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mato fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mato.
You are the captain of a free company — one among many roaming this mercenary world, growing, falling, earning and betraying just as you do. The world will not bend for you, nor wait: the other companies are already writing their stories. Yours will be decided in steel, gold and a name.
The Black Watch: Bloodline
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Ranked #5 for Mato fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mato.
Become a monster hunter in a dark folklore Tactical RPG. Lead two orphan siblings through turn-based battles, dangerous contracts, and moral choices as a cursed power threatens to consume them.
Food Devils
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Ranked #6 for Mato fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mato.
You're the last chef in a post-apocalyptic world. Attract adventurers with monstrous food, make them sign contracts with the Food Devils and organize expeditions to collect wicked ingredients! Customize your characters, build the perfect restaurant and plan every move in this Tactics-RPG Roguelite.
Deckrage
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Ranked #7 for Mato fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mato.
A grim single-player card-based tactical RPG where you assemble a party of four heroes, chart dangerous expeditions, and survive brutal battles by managing formation, stress, and resources.
Ashes of Resolve
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Ranked #8 for Mato fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mato.
A wedding meant to bring peace ends in blood and ignites a war that will consume everything in this 2.5D strategy RPG. You'll have to take command and steel your resolve to survive the conflict; hire your army, capture enemies, target their mounts, build bonds, and influence the weather.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Mato.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mato.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mato.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Casual with Mato.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mato.
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.
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 Mato.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mato.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Mato
- What games are most similar to Mato?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mato are Never's End, Raise the banners, Ironwake.
- Who developed Mato?
- Mato was developed by LALALA Games Corp..
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 Mato.
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