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Games like Cult of the Yellow King
Metaphor Games, Newmind Interactive · 2026 · Windows
Steam: 75 % positive of 241 reviews, as of Oct 28
A cosmic horror idle game where you build the Yellow King’s cult, spread his living mold, and click yourself hollow. Memory by memory. Scream by silent scream, as the sky blooms with eyes watching your beautiful undoing.
24 games that play like Cult of the Yellow King and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Cult Nation, Worshippers of Cthulhu and Cult of the Lamb.
Player tags
By gameplay
Plays like Cult of the Yellow King
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Cult Nation
87 % positive of 218
Shared: Clicker · Idler · Strategy
Worshippers of Cthulhu
79 % positive of 1,313
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Lovecraftian
Cult of the Lamb
94 % positive of 113,292
Shared: Strategy · 2D · Singleplayer
Idle Chapel
79 % positive of 224
Shared: Clicker · Idler · Strategy
Cultist Simulator
81 % positive of 10,609
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Resource Management
Depersonalization
91 % positive of 6,074
Shared: Strategy · Lovecraftian · Casual
Worship
78 % positive of 205
Shared: Lovecraftian · Hand-drawn · Cult
Darkwood
93 % positive of 22,514
Shared: Lovecraftian · Indie · Singleplayer
All Hail the Orb
92 % positive of 1,383
(the) Gnorp Apologue
93 % positive of 9,677
Shared: Clicker · Idler · Strategy
Idling to Rule the Gods
84 % positive of 2,153
Shared: Clicker · Idler · Strategy
Dawnfolk
94 % positive of 671
Shared: Strategy · Resource Management · Relaxing
More matches
- Nubby's Number Factory97 % positive of 18,379Shared: Strategy · Arcade · Casual
- The King is Watching88 % positive of 9,261Shared: Strategy · Resource Management
- Underworld Idle70 % positive of 1,380Shared: Clicker · Idler · Strategy
- Horripilant91 % positive of 3,097
- Kingdom: Classic90 % positive of 22,800Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Resource Management
- Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft93 % positive of 12,429Shared: Lovecraftian · Casual · Indie
- Graveyard Keeper86 % positive of 40,243Shared: Simulation · Management · Indie
- Isolomus94 % positive of 418Shared: Minimalist · Casual · Indie
- The Eastern Sacrifice54 % positive of 355Shared: Clicker · Idler · Strategy
- Xenosensory93 % positive of 162Shared: Clicker · Idler · Strategy
- Honey, I Joined a Cult72 % positive of 1,392Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Resource Management
- WORLD OF HORROR89 % positive of 9,029Shared: Lovecraftian · 2D · Singleplayer
By look
Looks like Cult of the Yellow King
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Risk of Rain Returns
89 % positive of 24,859
Loop Hero
91 % positive of 33,907
Dome Keeper
91 % positive of 19,273
Hero Siege
67 % positive of 36,973
Heroes of Hammerwatch
87 % positive of 7,525
CleanFall
93 % positive of 503
Seraph's Last Stand
93 % positive of 4,016
The Horror at Highrook
90 % positive of 472
Tower Wizard
95 % positive of 8,989
Skull Horde
81 % positive of 1,117
Risk of Rain (2013)
93 % positive of 20,787
Caves of Qud
93 % positive of 12,012
More matches
- 9 Kings91 % positive of 21,771
- Digseum97 % positive of 8,112
- Wall World89 % positive of 11,498
- TowerFall Ascension94 % positive of 2,958
- Necroking81 % positive of 874
- Necrosmith85 % positive of 4,901
- The Slormancer80 % positive of 6,935
- Stuck In Time83 % positive of 1,029
- Necrosmith 276 % positive of 1,325
- Siralim Ultimate92 % positive of 2,180
- Death Howl91 % positive of 1,348
- Heroes of Hammerwatch II81 % positive of 5,866
At a glance
What games like Cult of the Yellow King have in common
- The tags they share most often with Cult of the Yellow King: Strategy (16 of 24), Clicker (7) and Idler (7).
- They came out between 2015 and 2026, none of them after Cult of the Yellow King (2026).
- Best rated by Steam players: Nubby's Number Factory (97 % positive of 18,379).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.