Onmyoji similar games & best alternatives

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Onmyoji

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS • 2018

Should you play it?

Onmyoji is a turn-based fantasy strategy game with PVP or PVE battles, where you can strengthen your beloved shikigami to build your dream tactical team and defeat various demons to become the ultimate onmyoji. Cross-platform play available for both Steam and English mobile versions.

What works

  • Beautiful art and character design
  • Engaging story and lore
  • Generous free-to-play rewards
  • Strong community and guild systems
  • Auto-play and farming features

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve and complexity
  • Grinding and repetitive gameplay
  • Occasional technical issues and bugs
  • Gacha rng can be frustrating
  • Pvp can be pay-to-win and unbalanced

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Summoners War: Chronicles

  • RuneScape ®

  • LAST CLOUDIA

  • Gems of War - Puzzle RPG

  • Bit Heroes Quest

  • Maiden And Lord

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Onmyoji but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Across the Obelisk

  • Inkbound

  • Chrono Ark

  • Frosthaven

  • Age of Wonders 4

  • Sunderfolk

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Onmyoji: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Story, Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026