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Games like Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

If Nanotale - Typing Chronicles is your kind of game, the closest matches are Epistory - Typing Chronicles, Crystal Eyes and D' Mär Lucidium: Grimmgart — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles: Something is wrong with the heart of magic. Play a young archivist venturing out into a dying world, cataloging its mysteries and its wonders to unearth the truth. Nanotale is the new adventure from the Typing Chronicles franchise and the spiritual successor to the acclaimed Epistory.

2021AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 68Windows · macOS · Linuxby Fishing Cactus
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Players who liked Nanotale - Typing Chronicles also play

Steam players who put hours into Nanotale - Typing Chronicles 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. Epistory - Typing Chronicles

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Top pick for Nanotale - Typing Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Crystal Eyes

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Nanotale - Typing Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Crystal Eyes is an Indie pixelart action adventure game with RPG touches.

    2025IndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. D' Mär Lucidium: Grimmgart

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Nanotale - Typing Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Your personality shapes your story in this first-person open-world RPG. Explore Grimmgart valley, scarred by the War for Divinity, and make choices through rich, layered dialogues. Shape your own playstyle and take your role in this new world.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Arcane Blood: The Shattered Star

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Nanotale - Typing Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    PLAY as Verana, a young witch and master a variety of spells!! DEFEAT bosses sealed away in forgotten dungeons! UPGRADE Verana's health and magic at Angel Maiden Statues! EXPLORE a great forest, dark caves, sandy waste, and even quaint towns!

    2023IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Edenfall: Legacy of the First Wardens

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Nanotale - Typing Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Unveil a mystical action-adventure where you shift between human, wolf, raccoon, and raven. Weave fluid combos across forms, purge corruption, and awaken the land’s lost beauty. Together with your spirit fox companion, embark on a soulbound journey of transformation, memory, and inner peace.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Arcane Revolt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Nanotale - Typing Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Arcane Revolt is an action role-playing game with pixel graphics. Lead a revolution as a powerful mage against tyrants in a fantasy medieval world. Customize your spells and make decisions that will benefit your cause in battle. Improve your spells, start the rebellion, and bring down the order!

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Forspoken

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Ranked #7 for Nanotale - Typing Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures.

    2023ActionAdventureRPG20.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. OPUS: Rocket of Whispers

    WHY THIS

    Shares lore collection and an atmospheric mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Ranked #8 for Nanotale - Typing Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Rocket of Whispers is an award-winning post-apocalyptic adventure that follows two survivors on a journey to launch a space burial for the lost souls of their desolate world. Help them search the snowy wasteland for supplies and the courage to say goodbye.

    2018IndieAdventure5.24 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nanotale - Typing Chronicles at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Nanotale - Typing Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Nanotale - Typing Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Nanotale - Typing Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Nanotale - Typing Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Nanotale - Typing Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Nanotale - Typing Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Nanotale - Typing Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Nanotale - Typing Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 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.

    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. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    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 Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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 ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Fishing Cactus

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

  1. Epistory - Typing Chronicles

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Another title from Fishing Cactus, the studio behind Nanotale - Typing Chronicles. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Algo Bot

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Another title from Fishing Cactus, the studio behind Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.

    2018Indie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Gloomy Eyes

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Another title from Fishing Cactus, the studio behind Nanotale - Typing Chronicles. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    A cozy horror, “self-coop”, adventure about two unlikely souls who forge a forbidden bond and journey together to find the sun. Explore eerie yet charming Tim Burton-esque levels, switch between two unique characters, and solve brain-teasing puzzles.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ary and the Secret of Seasons

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Another title from Fishing Cactus, the studio behind Nanotale - Typing Chronicles. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Take control of the seasons and use them to solve puzzles, defeat enemies, and discover the beautiful world of Valdi in this award-winning indie adventure.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Another title from Fishing Cactus, the studio behind Nanotale - Typing Chronicles. Shares Adventure with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Shift Quantum is a brain-busting platformer using a unique mechanic called SHIFTING, a way to twist your environment and invert space around you. Bend your mind to reach the exit of each level and unveil the secrets of a strange program. Extend the experience, create and share your own levels.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Monkeys Ahoy

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Fishing Cactus, the studio behind Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Join two young pirate chimps on their quest to make the Ultimate Friendship Smoothie through this bright and lively monkey world

    2017Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Urbance Clans Card Battle!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Fishing Cactus, the studio behind Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Street gangs rise up in Neo-City. Time has come to gather your own gang to take over the whole city, district after district. Takedowns will happen, show no mercy if you wanna survive.

    2018StrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Outshine

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Another title from Fishing Cactus, the studio behind Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

    Unleash your powers against your oppressors in this arcade, fast-paced typing game. Avoid traps, destroy enemies, defeat bosses to seek your revenge, and rush to the top of the leaderboards.

    2022ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Does Nanotale - Typing Chronicles run on Steam Deck?
Nanotale - Typing Chronicles is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Nanotale - Typing Chronicles cost?
Nanotale - Typing Chronicles is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Nanotale - Typing Chronicles?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nanotale - Typing Chronicles are Epistory - Typing Chronicles, Crystal Eyes, D' Mär Lucidium: Grimmgart.
Who developed Nanotale - Typing Chronicles?
Nanotale - Typing Chronicles was developed by Fishing Cactus and published by Fishing Cactus, PID Games, 2PGames.

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