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Games like Inkulinati

If Inkulinati is your kind of game, the closest matches are VYCE, King Arthur: Knight's Tale and Card Hog — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, cozy and funny. 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 Inkulinati: Inkulinati is a turn-based strategy game straight from medieval manuscripts, where a rabbit’s bum can be deadlier than a dog's sword. Become a master of the Living Ink, build your own bestiary, defeat medieval superstars and collect perks to unleash hidden powers.

2024StrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 78Windows · macOSby Yaza Games
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Absurd humor with creatures like dancing skeletons and frog warriorsDeck building with unit synergies feels rewardingHistorical creatures are drawn from real medieval manuscriptsChallengingCozyFunny

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Steam players who put hours into Inkulinati 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. VYCE

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Inkulinati fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Inkulinati.

    VYCE is a tactical RPG where you collect and trade critters based on real-world vices that move like chess pieces. Value Your Choices Effectively in this unorthodox amalgamation of strategy and depravity.

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  2. King Arthur: Knight's Tale

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Inkulinati.

    Second-strongest match for Inkulinati fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Inkulinati.

    A unique hybrid between turn-based tactical games and traditional, character-centric RPGs. Knight's Tale is a modern retelling of a classic Arthurian mythology story filtered through the dark fantasy tropes, a twist on the traditional tales of chivalry.

    2022StrategyRPG44.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Card Hog

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Inkulinati.

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

    Card Hog is a pig-based dungeon crawler with roguelike and deck building elements. Take the role of an adventurous hog and interact with more than 100 cards of dangerous enemies, powerful weapons and exciting spells!

    2023StrategyIndieRPG1.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Doors of Insanity

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Inkulinati.

    Ranked #4 for Inkulinati fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Inkulinati.

    Cards and Chaos await you in Doors of Insanity, a Deck Building RPG roguelike with a focus on character creation and incredible loot!

    2022StrategyAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  5. Shogun Showdown

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Inkulinati.

    Ranked #5 for Inkulinati fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Inkulinati.

    Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!

    2024StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Black Book

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building with Inkulinati.

    Ranked #6 for Inkulinati fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Inkulinati.

    “Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Inkulinati.

    Ranked #7 for Inkulinati fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Inkulinati.

    Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon is a turn-based Roguelike card game where you assume the role of a Shu general. Explore dungeons, gather relics, and amass a collection of cards. In each round, you can assemble a unique combination of cards and treasures to defeat your enemies and rewrite history!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure2.42 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Wildfrost

    WHY THIS

    Shares tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Inkulinati.

    Ranked #8 for Inkulinati fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Inkulinati.

    Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

    2023StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Inkulinati

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Inkulinati cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Worms

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Inkulinati.

    Reviewers of Inkulinati cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Inkulinati.

    Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.

    2011Strategy7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Inkulinati cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Inkulinati.

    Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.

    2019Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Viking Chess: Hnefatafl

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Inkulinati cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Inkulinati.

    Play the ancient game of "Hnefatafl" in style on your PC, in Singleplayer mode against the AI or Multiplayer over the internet. "Hnefatafl" is a strategic, chess-like boardgame with assumed origins all the way back to the Viking era.

    2020StrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Inkulinati at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Inkulinati on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inkulinati.

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

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Inkulinati on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inkulinati.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Inkulinati on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inkulinati.

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

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Inkulinati on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Inkulinati.

    The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Inkulinati on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inkulinati.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Inkulinati on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inkulinati.

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

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Inkulinati on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inkulinati.

    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 ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~68% under Inkulinati on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inkulinati.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

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

    The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Samsara Room

    WHY THIS

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

    You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Inkulinati.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Inkulinati

Is Inkulinati verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Inkulinati is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Inkulinati cost?
Inkulinati is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Inkulinati have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Inkulinati supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Inkulinati?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Inkulinati are VYCE, King Arthur: Knight's Tale, Card Hog.
Who developed Inkulinati?
Inkulinati was developed by Yaza Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment.

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 Inkulinati.

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