Games Like BOOK OF HOURS

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Tabletop 15.8%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Card Game 15.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developer, this game shares the same cryptic, occult-themed card-based mechanics and deep lore.

"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.

Why similar: Card Game 36.3%, Deckbuilding 33.9%, Story Rich 11.8%, Strategy 10.8%, RPG 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title features a complex, card-based combat system set within a mysterious, lore-heavy library environment.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Exploration 31%, Choices Matter 26.8%, Simulation 26.4%, Story Rich 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a shop of occult plants, requiring the same careful cataloging and atmospheric investigation found in the library.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Tabletop 30.1%, Narrative 28.4% ★, Text-Based 14.9%, RPG 10.3%, Exploration 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes dice-based resource management and a deep, character-driven narrative that mirrors the contemplative pacing of your library work.

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Crafting 28.4%, Life Sim 15.7%, Management 15.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on manual crafting, experimentation, and discovery captures the tactile satisfaction of the alchemy systems in your library.

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Exploration 30.5%, RPG 27.9%, Story Rich 21%, Choices Matter 20.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similarly rich, gothic atmosphere and dense narrative world-building that rewards patient exploration.

You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.

Why similar: Card Game 22.8%, Tabletop 19.6%, Deckbuilding 18.5%, Management 14.5%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy-management game uses card-based mechanics to build a world and manage resources in a way that feels mechanically adjacent to your library tasks.

You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 20.8%, Card Game 13.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Time Management 11.7%, Resource Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines shop management with deckbuilding, providing a satisfying loop of resource gathering and strategic planning.

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...

Why similar: Card Game 41.8%, Deckbuilding 38.5%, Story Rich 11%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends card-based strategy with a dark, unfolding mystery that rewards players for interacting with the environment in unconventional ways.

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 23.4%, Card Game 21.3%, Life Sim 18.9%, Choices Matter 12.3%, RPG 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game features a heavy emphasis on choices and life-simulation elements that impact the narrative outcome of your character's journey.

Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 17.5%, Resource Management 15.1%, Management 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, RPG 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game that forces you to manage resources and make narrative choices that define the history of your people.

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.6%, Text-Based 15.9%, RPG 14.7%, Story Rich 12%, Tabletop 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This interactive fiction RPG focuses on the weight of your decisions and the slow accumulation of knowledge to change your fate.

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Exploration 47.6%, Story Rich 26.7%, RPG 25.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like your library, this game emphasizes slow-burn exploration and the discovery of terrifying, secret histories in a hostile world.

The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 19.3%, Card Game 17%, Strategy RPG 16.2%, Time Management 15.9%, Resource Management 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more roguelite-focused, the strategic deck-building and world-restoration elements provide a similar sense of gradual progress.

Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

Why similar: Narrative 39.4% ★, Exploration 21.2%, Story Rich 20%, Choices Matter 19.5%

Why You'll Like It: This historical narrative RPG excels at world-building through documents and lore, mirroring the scholarly focus of the librarian role.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Choices Matter 36.5%, RPG 29.9%, Story Rich 22.5%, Exploration 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an unparalleled depth of narrative and world-building that rewards players who engage with every piece of text and lore.

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Narrative 43.3% ★, Choices Matter 25%, Story Rich 17.9%, Exploration 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: This investigation game requires the same keen eye for detail and logical deduction needed to piece together the secrets of your grimoires.

Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?

Why similar: Tabletop 18.7%, Time Management 17.4%, Lore-Rich 17.3%, Card Game 17.3%, Choices Matter 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-RPG that emphasizes narrative depth and card-based decision-making in a historical setting.

In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?

Why similar: Card Game 23.9%, Deckbuilding 19.9%, Narrative 17.2% ★, Choices Matter 10.6%, Text-Based 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative card game uses conversation as a mechanic, focusing on the emotional weight of your interactions.

A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 24.8%, Tabletop 21.9%, Card Game 18.2%, Choices Matter 14.3%, RPG 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A Victorian-era CRPG that uses a tarot-based system for skill checks, fitting the esoteric and mystical tone of your library.

"May all stories find their best endings." "Depersonalization" is an anthology-style game featuring standalone chapters and diverse story genres. We continuously collect and create a wide variety of stories, ultimately housing them in a library that transcends the flow of time.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 43.7%, Card Game 18.4%, RPG 16.8%, Story Rich 11%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian RPG that focuses on investigation and narrative branches, perfect for fans of occult mysteries.

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Why similar: Tabletop 38.7%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Exploration 15%, RPG 13.1%, Story Rich 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the spirit of exploration and resource management in a procedurally generated world filled with strange secrets.

Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game. Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.

Why similar: Time Management 20%, Life Sim 19.1%, Management 15.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Choices Matter 10%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy management game that shares the theme of running a literary space while engaging with the local community.

Live the life of a starving artist in 19th century alternative history. Survive poverty, alchoholism, madness, depression, and 67 different feelings. Paint masterpieces by combining inspirations, sell them for riches (or scraps) and create a painting that will change the world.

Why similar: Card Game 18.5%, Deckbuilding 14.9%, Tabletop 14.8%, Life Sim 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation game offers a unique perspective on life-management and RPG progression through card-based mechanics.

Trapped in the past, your survival hinges on your ability to adapt and innovate. From foraging for food to mastering the art of technology, every decision you make shapes your destiny. Will you return to your own time, or make the past your new future in this mind-bending survival game?

Why similar: Card Game 20.8%, Tabletop 20.6%, Management 12.5%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: This management and building game incorporates card-based mechanics to help you survive and thrive in a challenging environment.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Narrative 27.7% ★, Resource Management 24.5%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy narrative game where your choices determine the survival of your crew in a harsh, unforgiving environment.

Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 22.9%, Life Sim 20.8%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Narration 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-RPG offers a gritty, simulation-heavy experience that rewards players for managing their resources in a complex urban setting.

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Choices Matter 44.9%, Story Rich 24.6%, RPG 19%, Strategy 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This tactical RPG focuses on emergent storytelling and character growth that feels personal and deeply connected to the world's history.

Dive into a massive 2-million-word immersive life sim. Use card-based strategies to survive office politics, rise from a rookie intern to a business tycoon, and find true love. Career, Romance, Wealth—why choose when you can have it all?

Why similar: Life Sim 19%, Time Management 17.6%, Deckbuilding 16.4%, Lore-Rich 16.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Simulation 55.6%, Story Rich 26%, Strategy 18.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game turns bureaucratic management into a tense, narrative-heavy experience that requires careful attention to detail.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Story Rich 100%

Why You'll Like It: It is the ultimate game of deduction and lore-gathering, requiring you to piece together a story from fragmented clues.

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.

Why similar: Card Game 44.3%, Crafting 23.5%, RPG 13.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, Simulation 8.2%

Card Cultivation is a card management game that visualizes the process of cultivating immortality through cards. In the game, you will play as a cultivation practitioner: cultivate techniques, explore treasures, and craft weapons, Throughout re-cultivation, you will recover memory.

Why similar: Card Game 22.2%, Tabletop 22%, Narrative 16% ★, Management 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%

Get settled into Gear Springs! Gather materials, craft items, go fishing, and battle it out with punch cards in the ruined facility. Don't get distracted though, you've still got to stop the last Craftsman and save the town!

Why similar: Card Game 22.2%, Time Management 19.2%, Life Sim 16%, Crafting 11%, RPG 8.7%

Become a medieval alchemist in this card game. Brew deadly potions, discover ancient recipes, hire adventurers, and outwit the Inquisition. Transform your humble shack into an alchemical empire. No wands are required — just knowledge and wit.

Why similar: Card Game 37.6%, RPG 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 9.1%

An incremental RPG where you reincarnate through lifetimes, mastering professions, unlocking skills, and exploring mystical realms.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 22.8%, Life Sim 17.8%, Time Management 15.5%, RPG 10.6%, Management 9.9%

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: Time Management 19.5%, Strategy RPG 18.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Management 10.4%

Reclaim glory in Magic Inn, a charming tavern life simulator. Take on the role of an exiled wizard-turned-innkeeper, overseeing everything from menus, rooms, guests, and staff in a fully magical customizable inn. Engage in card battles to spark conversations and foster relationships with guests.

Why similar: Life Sim 19.7%, Deckbuilding 18.9%, Card Game 17.5%, Crafting 16%, Management 14.9%

Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!

Why similar: Card Game 20.8%, Tabletop 20.4%, Lore-Rich 19.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, RPG 8.5%

Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool? Select from hundreds of wizard classes to face hundreds of different event challenges, resist the invasion of the abyss, and save the entire empire from crisis.

Why similar: Card Game 31.1%, Management 20.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Time Management 12.1%, Simulation 8.6%

"Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.

Why similar: Card Game 15.1%, Time Management 14.8%, Life Sim 11.9%, Management 11.3%, Crafting 9.6%

Dark Sky is a narrative RPG deckbuilder that features tactical combat and a branching card upgrade system. Assemble your party, customize your deck, and harness powerful synergies to master strategic battles as you unravel the mystery behind a planetary catastrophe.

Why similar: Card Game 22.5%, Deckbuilding 18.5%, Strategy RPG 17.6%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Strategy 7.3%

Wake to a brutal world bent on destroying your colony. Rebuild, Explore the Wastelands, and Gather scarce resources. Will you strike a deal with the ruthless Baba Yaga - or hack a rogue Cyber-Rat to turn it into an ally? A dark strategy-survival RPG with card-based tactical combat.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 21.1%, Strategy RPG 20.6%, Card Game 19.1%, Management 9.4%, RPG 7.8%

Retirement Simulator is a game that simulates the retirement life. Customize your retirement and realize your ultimate goals: become a world traveller, an influencer, a KungFu Master or more. Through discovering stories and events, you will also deepen your bonds with your familiy and the community.

Why similar: Time Management 20.2%, Card Game 20%, Strategy RPG 16.6%, Life Sim 15.7%, RPG 8.3%

Welcome again, wandering soul. Will this be the time of your success? Watch your steps as you advance in this roguelike-deck builder and engage in auto-battler card encounters of increasing difficulty. Get stronger in each battle, rise from the ashes, and break free from endless reincarnation!

Why similar: Tabletop 22.9%, Deckbuilding 22.2%, Card Game 21.3%, Strategy RPG 14.4%, Choices Matter 7.3%

Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

Why similar: Tabletop 30%, Deckbuilding 29.4%, Card Game 22.8%, RPG 9.9%, Strategy 7.8%

The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.

Why similar: Card Game 30.2%, Crafting 24%, Choices Matter 16.9%, RPG 10.3%, Simulation 9.7%

Collect, combine, and automate card production. Discover new areas, resources, and enemies all while growing your mechanized army. Plan ahead before taking on the challenges of the ruptured earth.

Why similar: Tabletop 22.7%, Card Game 22.5%, Deckbuilding 18.5%, Management 15.6%, Crafting 13.5%

"Fatermyth" is an RPG game that combines tabletop role-playing and adventure. The storylines of seven characters from different eras intertwine, depicting an epic of human heroes. The strategic battles with dice + skills add more challenges to the adventure.

Why similar: Tabletop 22%, Deckbuilding 20.4%, Lore-Rich 20.1%, Card Game 19.5%, RPG 7.4%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Resource Management 28.8%, Management 25.4%, Building 20%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 12.6%

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

Why similar: Management 26.1%, Resource Management 19.6%, Life Sim 15.4%, RPG 12.1%, Simulation 9.1%

The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 27.4%, Card Game 16%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%

Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.

Why similar: Card Game 25.6%, Tabletop 23%, Narration 16.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Exploration 7.1%

Esports History is an RPG sim where you start as a regular guy, and work your way up to the very top of esports. Defeat bosses in tournaments, make a name for yourself within the esports community, and become a real pro!

Why similar: Time Management 18.2%, Strategy RPG 15.4%, Resource Management 14%, Management 13.6%, Life Sim 12.4%

An epic deckbuilding RPG inspired by old-school classics like Ultima and D&D, using modern gaming concepts like roguelite elements and turnbased strategic combat. Lead and nurture parties of heroes. Forge bonds and discover new skills among them. Guide them to unravel the curses laid upon the lands.

Why similar: Card Game 39.5%, Deckbuilding 34.4%, RPG 14.3%, Strategy 11.8%

A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!

Why similar: Management 18.1%, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Resource Management 15.7%, Time Management 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Master the eldritch art of Kamifuda—channeling long dead powers within arcane cards—in this visual novel and deck builder game.

Why similar: Card Game 28.1%, Deckbuilding 24.8%, Lore-Rich 18.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 7.5%

Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Demon-Slayer, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. Your choices will determine which employees become enamored with you.

Why similar: Building 26.4%, RPG 24.3%, Simulation 22.3%, Story Rich 14.7%, Strategy 12.4%

The Mahjong Roguelike. Aotenjo: Infinite Hands is an deckbuilder where you will use Mahjong styles all over the world to beat innate threats, play different Patterns and combos, reach the "bottom" of Aotenjo, and discover ancient secrets....

Why similar: Deckbuilding 31.3%, Card Game 26.8%, Resource Management 21.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Management 7.9%