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 15.9%, Card Game 15.4%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%

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 36.4%, Deckbuilding 33.1%, Story Rich 12.2%, Strategy 10.9%, RPG 7.4%

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: Lore-Rich 36.7%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Exploration 14.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Story Rich 11%

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: Narrative 29.2% ★, Tabletop 28.4%, Text-Based 14.9%, RPG 10.7%, Exploration 8.6%

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 29.2%, Management 15.7%, Life Sim 15.5%, Resource Management 15%, Simulation 8.7%

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 30.8%, RPG 28.5%, Story Rich 21.1%, Choices Matter 19.7%

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 22.9%, Tabletop 20%, Deckbuilding 17.9%, Management 14.3%, Crafting 10.6%

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 20.2%, Card Game 13.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Time Management 11.9%, Resource Management 11%

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 39.2%, Deckbuilding 35.2%, Story Rich 10.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Puzzle 6.6%

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.

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 30.4%, Text-Based 16.5%, RPG 15.4%, Story Rich 12.3%, Tabletop 8.6%

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 47.5%, Story Rich 26.4%, RPG 26.1%

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.

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 22.8%, Card Game 21.3%, Life Sim 19%, Choices Matter 12.4%, RPG 8.6%

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.

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 20.8%, Story Rich 20.2%, Choices Matter 19.6%

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.

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 17.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 14.6%, Choices Matter 14%, RPG 9.9%

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.

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 18.7%, Card Game 17%, Strategy RPG 16.5%, Time Management 16%, Resource Management 12.3%

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

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 35.5%, RPG 30.6%, Story Rich 22.8%, 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 37.8% ★, Choices Matter 21.1%, Story Rich 15.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, Exploration 12.1%

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.

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 23.9%, Tabletop 22.2%, Card Game 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, RPG 13%

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.

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 18.8%, Time Management 17.3%, Card Game 17.2%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%

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

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 38.5%, Exploration 15.2%, Choices Matter 15%, RPG 13.4%, Story Rich 9.6%

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

"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 41.1%, Card Game 16.9%, RPG 16.3%, Story Rich 10.4%, Strategy 9.4%

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

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 23.8%, Deckbuilding 19.1%, Narrative 17.4% ★, Choices Matter 10.5%, Text-Based 9.9%

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

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 18.6%, Tabletop 14.9%, Deckbuilding 14.4%, Life Sim 13.2%, Crafting 12.3%

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

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: Life Sim 28.9%, Management 23%, Time Management 13.7%, Simulation 10%, Resource Management 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.

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: Tabletop 20%, Card Game 19.9%, Management 11.8%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%

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 28.2% ★, Resource Management 23.7%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8.5%

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

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 43.9%, Story Rich 25%, RPG 19.8%, Strategy 11.4%

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.

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 41.4%, Story Rich 19.8%, Puzzle 16%, Strategy 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%

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 52.6%, Puzzle 47.4%

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.

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: Tabletop 14.2%, Card Game 13.1%, Time Management 13%, Narrative 11.3% ★, Lore-Rich 10.5%

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 43.9%, Crafting 23.4%, RPG 13.7%, Story Rich 10.9%, Simulation 8.1%

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 37.7%, RPG 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 9.1%

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 25.5%, Life Sim 23.4%, Management 16.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11.4%

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.

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 22.1%, Time Management 19.2%, Life Sim 16%, Crafting 11.1%, RPG 9.1%

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 19.1%, Time Management 17.6%, Lore-Rich 16.2%, Deckbuilding 15.8%, Choices Matter 8.1%

The 109th Hero is a story-driven RPG set in the world of Water Margin. As the fated 109th hero, forge alliances, collect Hero Cards, and master the spirit of Liangshan. Navigate the webs of Mount Liang, make your stand—and rewrite the destiny of the outlaw heroes.

Why similar: Card Game 29.4%, Lore-Rich 27.6%, RPG 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 8%

Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.

Why similar: Management 24.8%, Choices Matter 23.1%, Strategy RPG 19%, RPG 13.8%, Story Rich 10.3%

A quiet bookshop. A magical past. A murder and Tarot cards that can twist fate itself. Craft beautiful covers, read between the lines of your customers’ lives, and decide which secrets deserve to stay hidden… including your own.

Why similar: Choices Matter 44.9%, Simulation 33.2%, Story Rich 21.9%

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%, Resource Management 19%, Life Sim 15.2%, RPG 12.7%, Simulation 9.4%

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 18.9%, Resource Management 14.4%, Crafting 13.9%, Management 10.2%

A grim RPG with card-based combat where nothing stays dead. Lead a party of survivors through a world undone by shattered Laws. Restore them and reshape the rules of the game, but be ready to face the consequences.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 26.9%, Card Game 22.7%, Lore-Rich 21.9%, RPG 11.5%, Story Rich 8.3%

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 22.4%, Deckbuilding 17.8%, Strategy RPG 17.8%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Strategy 7.3%

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

Why similar: Lore-Rich 22.5%, Life Sim 17.7%, Time Management 15.5%, RPG 11%, Management 9.8%

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 19.6%, Deckbuilding 18.3%, Card Game 17.6%, Crafting 16.4%, Management 14.8%

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 31.2%, Management 20.2%, Resource Management 14.3%, Time Management 12.2%, Simulation 8.7%

Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplayer narrative puzzle game for the terminally curious. Don’t worry; you can always start over.

Why similar: Card Game 59.8%, Strategy 20.5%, Puzzle 14.3%, Story Rich 5.4%

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%, Card Game 19.8%, Strategy RPG 16.7%, Life Sim 15.5%, RPG 8.6%

A grim medieval deckbuilder where you use your dubious healing methods to protect bizarre villagers from the corrupting influence of ancient evils.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 32.4%, Card Game 29.7%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 9.1%

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 29.9%, Crafting 24.1%, Choices Matter 16.6%, RPG 10.7%, Simulation 9.6%

Resettle the shards of a shattered world in this peaceful roguelite deckbuilder, covering centuries of classical Japanese art. Nurture communities, befriend animal spirits, and shape a new civilization through choices that echo across generations.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 34.3%, Card Game 29.5%, Building 14.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 10.6%

RPG-infused Roguelike Deckbuilder. Forge your hero, level up, and craft a deck that evolves based on your unique build. Travel a land ravaged by famine, uncover the prophecy, and save the people of Ruthia!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 31.1%, Card Game 28.9%, Tabletop 24.5%, Strategy 7.7%, RPG 7.7%

A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Commune with the realm of the dead and struggle with your descent into madness. Build the power to raise an undead army and march against your enemies. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion and seduction.

Why similar: Narrative 33.9% ★, Lore-Rich 30.3%, Choices Matter 14.3%, RPG 11.6%, Story Rich 9.9%

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 23.2%, Deckbuilding 21.5%, Card Game 21.4%, Strategy RPG 14.6%, Choices Matter 7.3%

Wake to a brutal world of Thea, 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: Strategy RPG 20.4%, Deckbuilding 20%, Card Game 19.4%, Management 9.4%, RPG 8%

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 27.7%, Card Game 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Management 12.4%, Simulation 10.3%

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.

Why similar: Card Game 32.2%, Life Sim 27.6%, Crafting 16.6%, RPG 12.5%, Simulation 11%

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 30.5%, Deckbuilding 28.5%, Card Game 22.8%, RPG 10.3%, Strategy 7.9%

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 17.8%, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Resource Management 15.3%, Time Management 13.4%, Building 9.9%

Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Spirit Hunter, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. All employees can be romanced depending on your choices.

Why similar: Building 29.5%, RPG 23%, Simulation 19.6%, Story Rich 15.6%, Strategy 12.3%

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 20.7%, Tabletop 20.5%, Lore-Rich 19.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, RPG 8.9%