Games Like Sultan's Game

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 17.8%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Card Game 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Sultan's Game's card-based resource juggling, occult dread, opaque systems, and constant sense that one bad decision can doom your run.

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 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Story Rich 11.9%, RPG 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Sultan's Game, it's a brutal story-rich RPG about surviving a cruel social order through painful, branching choices with life-defining consequences.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Card Game 46.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Strategy 11%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: If you like Sultan's Game for its harsh card-based survival systems and unforgiving resource planning, this is an excellent mechanical match.

These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Story Rich 9.5%, RPG 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches for the feeling of serving under a ruler while balancing scarce resources, petitions, family, and deadly political trade-offs week by week.

Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Why similar: Dark Humor 34.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Story Rich 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark ritual management, sacrificial politics, and governing-under-doom structure echo Sultan's Game's blend of tyranny, strategy, and horror-laced decision making.

Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?

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: It trades direct tyranny for occult solitude, but its card-driven time management, lore-rich storytelling, and slow-burn dread feel very adjacent.

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Card Game 28.9%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Dark Humor 8.6%, RPG 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its simple card-choice format hides a similarly strong loop of balancing competing forces while trying to survive the dangers of rule and succession.

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Drama 21.4%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Story Rich 10.8%, RPG 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same pressure-cooker feeling of surviving under unstable political power where every choice reshapes alliances, morality, and your eventual fate.

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Choices Matter 23.6%, Story Rich 15.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Sultan's Game, it turns repetitive ritual choices into a dark moral spiral where following orders, resisting, or gaming the system all have consequences.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Emotional 20%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Drama 17.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same grim survival tone and impossible resource-driven choices, with every victory shadowed by sacrifice and guilt.

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 16.1%, RPG 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another excellent court-survival game where planning ahead, reading threats, and managing limited actions determines whether you live or die.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.8%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Story Rich 14.8%, RPG 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Few games match Sultan's Game's feeling of oppressive scarcity and dreadful choices as well as this time-pressured survival nightmare.

For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

Why similar: Time Management 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 9.2%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its role as a ruler's subordinate balancing factions, resources, and dangerous political demands makes it thematically very close to Sultan's Game.

A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Why similar: Card Game 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-based branching structure and focus on scraping through a hostile world make it a lighter but still relevant match.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Strategy 44.8%, Choices Matter 26.8%, Simulation 16.7%, Singleplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is less personal but nails the same core appeal of surviving through ruthless management decisions that test both strategy and conscience.

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: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Card Game 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Story Rich 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its calendar structure, card-based checks, branching storylines, and ability to turn mundane planning into tragic outcomes make it a strong tonal cousin.

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 60.7%, Story Rich 22%, Strategy 14.2%, Adventure 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It matches the seed game's dark card-driven storytelling and menace, even if its focus is more on deckbuilding puzzles than courtly survival.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Choices Matter 19%, Emotional 16.9%, Story Rich 12%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This one leans hard into leadership under desperation, asking you to manage people and supplies while enduring a bleak, escalating survival narrative.

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 56.2%, Story Rich 18.8%, RPG 17.9%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its cyclical time management, constrained resources, and story-rich choices create a similarly tense rhythm of trying to endure one more turn.

Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2

Why similar: Card Game 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, RPG 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers more of the same card-based survival-through-choices formula, making it a decent follow-up if you mainly want branching hardship and repeated runs.

Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Choices Matter 27.1%, Story Rich 16%, RPG 15.4%, Singleplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its punishing medieval survival-RPG structure, stat management, and frequent life-or-death decisions make it a natural fit for fans of Sultan's Game's brutality.

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Why similar: RPG 30.4%, Strategy 25%, Simulation 21.9%, Adventure 13.3%, Singleplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines harsh survival management, relationship stress, and morally ugly decisions in a way that fits Sultan's Game's ruthless atmosphere.

Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 55.3%, Psychological Horror 24.9%, RPG 16.4%, Adventure 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Though not card-based, it shares the same fascination with cruelty, survival, psychological pressure, and branching horror born from bad odds.

Fight to investigate another day in this gothic horror adventure card game. Equip items and relics. Acquire cards and use them wisely to survive what lurks in the darkest corners of town. Take a short and mind-bending dive into the unknown with a cosy horror atmosphere.

Why similar: Card Game 34.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Strategy 7.1%, Singleplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This combines occult themes, card play, and choose-your-own-adventure structure in a way that overlaps nicely with Sultan's Game's narrative-system mix.

"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 31.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Story Rich 14%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its story-heavy card combat and cruel, literary worldbuilding scratch a similar itch for players who want strategic systems wrapped in a grim narrative.

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Why similar: Lore-Rich 25.6%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Story Rich 12.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 11%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel pushes even deeper into bureaucratic survival and political ambition, with the same sense of climbing upward inside a rotten system.

You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.4%, Drama 14.9%, RPG 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Story Rich 14.2%

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Dark Humor 31.4%, Choices Matter 21.1%, Story Rich 12.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Living under an oppressive regime, exploiting others to survive, and deciding how far you'll compromise gives it a very similar moral texture.

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: Tabletop 14.7%, Card Game 13.9%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

Out of Hands is a bizarre card-based adventure game that blends video-collage graphics with gripping psychological horror. Will you seek the truth lurking in this wicked, warped world—and can you bear its weight? Misty memories threaten to tear you apart, contorting you into a being... Out of Hands.

Why similar: Card Game 25.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 24%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, RPG 10.2%, Strategy 9.2%

Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!

Why similar: Time Management 23.4%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Drama 14.7%, RPG 11.4%, Simulation 9.3%

You will play as a Trainee Death, harvesting Souls to pay off your debt. Random choice events offer you various options: Lie in bed and slack off since the debt is endless anyway, Or follow your senior to earn some extra Souls, collecting outfits to switch up your style.

Why similar: Card Game 27.2%, Drama 16.3%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 14.8%, Simulation 8.9%

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dark Humor 14.5%

Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Tabletop 19.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%, RPG 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This classic blends event-driven storytelling, mythic politics, and resource management into a ruler sim where every decision shapes your people's survival.

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: Choices Matter 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, RPG 14.9%, Story Rich 14%, Simulation 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like King of Dragon Pass, it excels at difficult clan leadership choices, narrative consequence, and surviving a hostile world through judgment rather than combat skill.

Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.2%, Drama 19.5%, RPG 18.4%, Story Rich 17.3%, Simulation 6%

The Yawhg is a one-to-four player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town’s locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 63.5%, Story Rich 16.8%, RPG 14.4%, Choices Matter 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-by-turn march toward catastrophe and emphasis on making the best of limited time strongly resembles Sultan's Game's looming-deadline tension.

Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.

Why similar: Card Game 29.5%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Story Rich 8.2%

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: Dark Humor 18.3%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Card Game 14.1%, Story Rich 10.7%

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: Dark Fantasy 25.7%, Simulation 19.8%, RPG 19.6%, Story Rich 16.4%, Strategy 11.2%

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Why similar: Drama 29%, Lore-Rich 28.1%, Story Rich 19.5%, Adventure 10.4%, RPG 9.4%

A young single man returns to his hometown and takes over the family's matchmaking business. Matchmaking Inc. is a modern-themed RPG designed for men that combines gameplay elements of simulation management and text adventure.

Why similar: Time Management 27.1%, Card Game 24.9%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%, RPG 9.2%

Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...

Why similar: Dark Humor 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Story Rich 10%, Simulation 8.9%

This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 51.6%, Story Rich 24.2%, Singleplayer 12.4%, Adventure 8.4%, RPG 3.4%

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: Time Management 23%, Lore-Rich 20.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 11.7%

Unleash your power in Dark Lord, a roguelike RPG filled with strategy, adventure, and sardonic wit. Rule your growing realm with an iron fist in Story Mode, dive deep into the legends created by other players, or forge your own in Community Stories Mode!

Why similar: Dark Humor 20.6%, Card Game 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Simulation 8.7%

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Emotional 25.4%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Simulation 18.1%, Strategy 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.

Why similar: RPG 25.3%, Drama 19.2%, Story Rich 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Strategy 11.1%

《觅长生》是一款想要还原真实修仙世界的开放世界角色扮演游戏。 在这里，你可以体验到从零开始一步步积攒修为突破境界的逆天修仙之旅，也可以体验到那些充满修仙味的故事和剧情。当然也少不了寻求奇遇、探索秘境，更可以和游戏中的角色互动，与人为善或是杀人夺宝全都由你自己抉择。

Why similar: Drama 37.2%, RPG 25.6%, Strategy 12.7%, Story Rich 10.5%, Simulation 8.5%

Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

Why similar: Simulation 37.9%, RPG 34.1%, Story Rich 13.1%, Singleplayer 8.5%, Psychological Horror 6.4%

Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.3%, Card Game 29.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.

Why similar: Card Game 17.3%, Time Management 16.4%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Tabletop 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.7%, Choices Matter 29.1%, Simulation 12.8%, Story Rich 12%, RPG 9.4%

You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Tabletop 16.7%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%

An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

Why similar: Drama 52.7%, Psychological Horror 30%, Singleplayer 9.2%, RPG 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 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%, RPG 11.5%, Strategy 8.5%

What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

Why similar: RPG 32.6%, Story Rich 30.7%, Simulation 28.1%, Singleplayer 8.6%

Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Card Game 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Dark Fantasy 16.5%, Choices Matter 13.1%

Conquer the jungle and prove that in any situation you - the master of your fate!

Why similar: Card Game 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 7.7%

"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: Card Game 29.1%, RPG 26.5%, Story Rich 24%, Strategy 17.8%, Adventure 2.6%