- #1 Spellcaster University
97% matchVery Positive83% of 4,213 reviews2021
Dev: Sneaky Yak Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
Why similar: Management 22.9%, Dark Fantasy 19.9%, Magic 18.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.7%
- #2 Decks of the Damned
96% matchVery Positive80% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Thorian GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Raise an undead army in Decks of the Damned! Command your vampire minions, scavenge gear from fallen foes and craft powerful items to strenghten your forces. Defend by day, expand your domain by night, and shroud the land in darkness!
Why similar: Card Game 20.1%, Management 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Roguelite 10.8%, Vampire 10.8% ★
- #3 The Fool's Apprentice
96% matchMixed53% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: The Planar Danse
Windows
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 28.9%, Magic 20.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 7.2%
- #4 WitchHand
95% matchVery Positive91% of 609 reviews2024
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 28.9%, Management 23.5%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.8%
- #5 Card Cultivation
94% matchMixed65% of 491 reviews2026
Dev: DarkIndexPub: IndieArk
Windows
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 23.7%, Management 18.3%, Roguelite 13.1%, Survival 12%, Solitaire 11.1% ★
- #6 Grime&Gold
93% matchNo user reviews95% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Pemdora
Windows
Fancy some cards, alchemist? Grime & Gold is a small game about stacking and mixing cards to craft strange recipes. Open boosters, delve into dungeons to find rare resources, hire goblins to help you to craft the Holy Grail and save the city, and don't forget to serve your shady clients!
Why similar: Card Game 17.3%, Management 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.4%, Solitaire 11.3% ★, Automation 10.3%
- #7 Wizdom Academy
94% matchMixed61% of 199 reviews2025
Dev: Kipwak Studio
Windows
Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.
Why similar: Management 52.7%, Strategy 18.4%, Automation 13.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Singleplayer 2%
- #8 Mind Over Magic
92% matchVery Positive87% of 4,302 reviews2025
Dev: SparkypantsPub: Klei Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
Why similar: Management 31.9%, Survival 22.2%, Resource Management 16.5%, Simulation 11.6%, Fantasy 9.9%
- #9 Soul Academy
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 463 reviews2023
Dev: Master Games
Windows
"Soul Academy" is an academy simulator with automatic battle MOBA. You will manage a shabby soul academy, recruiting and training students. Your ultimate goal is to challenge various academies across the continent and reach the top.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 32.4%, Time Management 18.3%, Management 17%, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 10.9%
- #10 Arcana of Paradise —The Tower—
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: 株式会社タストαPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Choose from 20 children and perfect your deck as you battle against The Tower's bizarre inhabitants in real time! Time your guards, combo your attacks, charge up powerful magic, and collect legendary relics in your search for food, as you guide the children to the bottom!
Why similar: Card Game 41.2%, Roguelite 24.9%, Fantasy 11.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #11 Kingdom of Cards
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Rubber Duck GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
From cropland to forest, from academy to conqueror's guild, expand territory of your kingdom. As the kingdom grows, crises will quietly arise. No worries: prepare to use the resource cards to train a group of powerful guardians to eliminate enemies and protect your kingdom.
Why similar: Card Game 39.7%, Strategy 19%, Roguelite 14.8%, Management 13.7%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #12 Stacklands
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: Card Game 27.2%, Management 21.3%, Roguelite 12.9%, Survival 12.7%, Solitaire 8.7% ★
- #13 Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story
90% matchMixed59% of 357 reviews2018
Dev: AgatePub: PQube
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Build a school for RPG heroes in a mix of simulation and role-play adventure. As Principal of a school for the warriors and mages of the future, you must build your Academy to train the best in the land. Place and upgrade facilities, form teams of the best students and send them out on epic quests!
Why similar: Management 43.8%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 18.6%, Fantasy 16.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #14 Fantasy Town Regional Manager
89% matchVery Positive80% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Caps Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.
Why similar: Card Game 31.3%, Roguelite 19.2%, Management 17.6%, Fantasy 8.5%, Strategy 8.3%
- #15 Fantasy Village Simulator
88% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.
Why similar: Roguelite 26.1%, Card Game 22.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 15%, Fantasy 11.6%
- #16 Ways of Alchemy
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 680 reviews2025
Dev: RocketBrush Games
Windows
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 42.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Survival 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Fantasy 8.6%
- #17 Cultist Simulator
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,737 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Card Game 24.7%, Management 18.9%, Roguelite 13.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, Magic 12.2%
- #18 Arcane Tower Survivors
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: Red Horde Games
Windows
Survive waves of enemies in this horde survival roguelite. Unleash devastating spells, master unique skills, and craft unstoppable builds. Between battles, fortify your tower and unlock powerful upgrades in a strategic meta-game. Will your magic outlast the chaos?
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 38.9%, Roguelite 35%, Choices Matter 9.5%, 2D 6.7%, Fantasy 4%
- #19 Arcane Trigger
83% matchVery Positive87% of 353 reviews2025
Dev: MiniWhale
Windows · Mac
Arcane Trigger is a bullet-building roguelike where every shot is crafted before it's fired. Forge over 220 bullets, shape their effects with 150+ magical seals, and master infinite synergies in this endlessly replayable strategic shooter.
Why similar: Card Game 37%, Roguelite 22.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Magic 8.9%, Fantasy 5.7%
- #20 SpellRogue
82% matchVery Positive87% of 1,585 reviews2025
Dev: Guidelight GamesPub: Ghost Ship Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Why similar: Card Game 32.5%, Dark Fantasy 25.8%, Roguelite 19%, Magic 12.5%, Strategy 8.4%
- #21 Game Studio Simulator(我要做游戏)
85% matchVery Positive82% of 180 reviews2019
Dev: FunLab骆驼Pub: WhiteLakeStudio
Windows
Make a Game Company for your self!Get it work,Run for Rich!
Why similar: Card Game 21.4%, Strategy 20%, Management 17%, Simulation 13.7%, Roguelite 12.7%
- #22 Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
81% matchVery Positive94% of 13,259 reviews2023
Dev: Bone Nail
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.2%, Roguelite 26.3%, Simulation 24.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #23 Magecraft: Spellbuilding
82% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Violet Grimoire
Windows
Craft spell cards, collect new effects, and build the perfect deck as you fight through rounds of turn-based combat. Survive randomly-generated dungeon layouts by countering enemy attacks with your own spells, and make the most of the powers and scrolls you pick up along the way.
Why similar: Card Game 42.2%, Roguelite 23.5%, Magic 15.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Fantasy 7.7%
- #24 Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story 2
84% matchMixed58% of 106 reviews2023
Dev: AgatePub: PQube
Windows
Not all heroes are born, many are forged by the finest Hero School – yours. Take command of the faculty, nurture a unique and ever-growing roster of students, and earn your place among the most prestigious schools in the world of Valthiria.
Why similar: Management 33.9%, Resource Management 20.2%, Simulation 13%, Fantasy 11.1%, Strategy 11%
- #25 Endgame of Devil
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,028 reviews2023
Dev: MiniWhalePub: Anotherindie
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
As the Devil, command your minions to defeat the greedy adventurers! Build your team with over 240 minions and over 200 treasures, and discover various battle strategies. Enjoy the convenience of one-click auto battles!
Why similar: Roguelite 24.4%, Magic 22.5%, Strategy 13.7%, Fantasy 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #26 Rune Gate
79% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: Devwind
Windows
Rune Gate is a roguelite deckbuilder centered on card customization. Craft unique battle strategies with different runes. Face continuous challenges, where every choice can lead to victory or defeat. Dive into Rune Gate, unleash creativity, and explore endless card combinations.
Why similar: Card Game 45.4%, Roguelite 20.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Magic 11.1%, Relaxing 6.4%
- #27 Clicker Arena
80% matchMixed55% of 105 reviews2024
Dev: James SunPub: indie.io
Windows
Clicker Arena, the place where heroes are made and wheat is separated from the chaff. It's a new generation of the laid-back gameplay of clickers with randomness, replayability, and resource management usually found in roguelikes. Can you survive when every decision matters?
Why similar: Card Game 29.7%, Roguelite 27.3%, Strategy 14%, Fantasy 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #28 Kingdom's Deck
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: Card Game 30.5%, Management 18.7%, Survival 14.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Simulation 8.3%
- #29 Cat God Ranch
76% matchVery Positive94% of 2,138 reviews2024
Dev: CrazyPotato Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!
Why similar: Management 27.3%, Card Game 21.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Roguelite 13.6%, Simulation 9.8%
- #30 Card Crawl Adventure
78% matchVery Positive83% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Arnold Rauers
Windows · Mac
Card Crawl Adventure is a single player card game with light deck building and roguelite elements. Engage in a unique path based combat mechanic to battle against devious tavern bosses. Visit a variety of cozy taverns, collect cards and improve your deck with magic equipment items and charms.
Why similar: Card Game 25.2%, Roguelite 16.1%, Dark Fantasy 15.4%, Solitaire 14.9% ★, Magic 9.9%
- #31 Rocwood Academy
79% matchVery Positive81% of 91 reviews2019
Dev: DigiLab Interaction
Windows
Rocwood Academy is a text-base choice-matters adventure game set in the wizard world hidden inside US society early 1900s. In the role of a first-year student, player is going to make friends, study wizardry and uncover the mystery beneath the school-back garden.
Why similar: Card Game 44.4%, Simulation 23.9%, Strategy 23.7%, Casual 8%
- #32 Academia : School Simulator
77% matchVery Positive86% of 3,008 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Management 52.2%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 15.1%, Colorful 9.6%, 2D 5.9%
- #33 Whimel Academy
75% matchVery Positive86% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: Impossible Home
Windows
Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game. Manage your time and balance between studying magic, part-time jobs, and befriending (or romance) classmates in this wholesome and enchanting world!
Why similar: Management 35%, Time Management 22.5%, Magic 22%, Simulation 14.3%, 2D 3.8%
- #34 Vivid Knight
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,701 reviews2021
Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
"Vivid Knight" is a "party-building roguelike" game in which you collect friends who have been turned into jewels and fight by combining their abilities! Explore the ever-changing dungeon and harness the gems you have gathered to challenge the labyrinth!
Why similar: Roguelite 34.2%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Fantasy 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #35 Madcap Mosaic
76% matchVery Positive95% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: 1classydude
Windows
Carefully craft your Mosaic in this fantasy themed deckbuilding game. Battle by battle, tile by tile, you'll form synergies and build up your Mosaic's combo potential, hoping to beat the curve as you forge deeper into enemy territory.
Why similar: Card Game 38.4%, Roguelite 25.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Magic 10.8%, Fantasy 6.4%
- #36 Factory Planner
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 319 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Card Game 25.2%, Management 20.7%, Solitaire 16.2% ★, Automation 14.5%, Strategy 7.7%
- #37 Rana Card
72% matchVery Positive90% of 1,332 reviews2025
Dev: VisionRanaPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rana Card is a roguelike deck-builder where you play as a farm manager chasing TimeTech's KPI targets. Draw cards in high-stakes moments, survive Time Explosions, and unlock powerful cards. Build your deck, chart your own path, and face branching events and cataclysmic years on the road to success.
Why similar: Card Game 45.9%, Roguelite 24.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Solitaire 6.8% ★, Casual 4.8%
- #38 Knightica
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,114 reviews2025
Dev: Mad Mango GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Recruit powerful units, place them strategically and find the best synergies in this Roguelike Autobattler! Knightica lets you guide a warband through many challenges to free the Kingdoms. Discover optimal combinations, weave powerful enchants, face dangerous monsters and lead your army to victory!
Why similar: Management 40.1%, Strategy 28.7%, Fantasy 21.3%, 2D 6.6%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #39 CD 2: Trap Master
74% matchVery Positive80% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: ACE ENTERTAINMENT
Windows · Mac
Become THE Trap Master - play your deck of lethal traps to mow down waves of bizarre creatures and protect your altars! Craft a unique deck of traps and powers, discover treasure of surprise effects, and guard a different base each time until you are ready for the unforgiving boss.
Why similar: Card Game 29.7%, Dark Fantasy 23.4%, Roguelite 17.4%, Magic 16.3%, Strategy 8.9%
- #40 Artist Life Simulator
75% matchVery Positive83% of 189 reviews2022
Dev: Interactive FatePub: Interactive Fate
Windows
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 33.9%, Roguelite 15.2%, Resource Management 14.2%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 9.8%
- #41 It's time, Your Majesty
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: String studioPub: Anotherindie
Windows
This is a DBG Game! By choosing various cards to add to the deck, your majesty needs to make wise decisions to cope with the effects of different years and dynastic changes. This huge and beautiful country is on your shoulder. Long live your majesty!
Why similar: Card Game 25.4%, Management 19.2%, Roguelite 13.5%, Resource Management 12.8%, Solitaire 10.3% ★
- #42 Transport Legion
71% matchVery Positive88% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: 喜人一个
Windows · Linux
A unique roguelike card-based tower defense game. Strategically place cards, manage resource transport, balance production with combat, and craft distinctive decks to claim victory.
Why similar: Card Game 38.3%, Strategy 18.4%, Roguelite 18%, Management 14.5%, Resource Management 7%
- #43 RLLL: Tower of Choices
71% matchVery Positive80% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: Team5D
Windows
RLLL: Tower of Choices blends party-based RPG, deck-building, and roguelite elements. Roll dice to move, make choices that matter, and build your perfect party through class advancement and companion recruitment. Discover powerful synergies between artifacts and skills with each new run.
Why similar: Roguelite 31.8%, Magic 22.4%, Strategy 17.8%, Fantasy 16.3%, 2D 5.4%
- #44 Automatic Kingdom
70% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.
Why similar: Card Game 33.7%, Resource Management 18.5%, Automation 15.3%, Time Management 12%, Strategy 10.8%
- #45 Knock on the Coffin Lid
70% matchVery Positive84% of 2,838 reviews2024
Dev: RedBoon
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.
Why similar: Card Game 28.6%, Dark Fantasy 28.1%, Roguelite 16.1%, Fantasy 11.6%, Strategy 8.4%
- #46 Demon's Mirror
71% matchVery Positive88% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Be-Rad EntertainmentPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Step into the Demon’s Mirror and enter a fantastical, nightmarish world in this roguelike deckbuilder! Strategy meets the arcane in a unique fusion of deck-building and chain-3 mechanics. Can you face your demons and come out unscathed?
Why similar: Card Game 44.4%, Roguelite 21.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Magic 9.8%, Fantasy 5.4%
- #47 Heroes of Magic & Cards
69% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: First Day Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Build the perfect deck, draw the perfect hand, and strike down your enemies with pairs and straights. Heroes of Magic & Cards is a roguelike deckbuilder with a poker twist, sending you and your fifty-two into a mystical fantasy world of monsters and magecraft!
Why similar: Card Game 55.4%, Strategy 20.1%, Roguelite 12%, Fantasy 6.7%, Choices Matter 4.6%
- #48 Don Duality
72% matchMixed64% of 375 reviews2023
Dev: KönigsborgsPub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Don Duality is a Chaos Manager game with card mechanics. Send your gangsters to the heist and launder money in your restaurant. Hire staff and upgrade your establishment, but remember that life like a roulette wheel and not everything can be fully controlled in Don's journey.
Why similar: Card Game 29.4%, Management 22%, Roguelite 16.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 7.3%
- #49 Solitairica
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 564 reviews2016
Dev: Righteous Hammer Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Solitairica takes RPG combat and challenging roguelike progression to a fresh new place—the world of solitaire! Using a variety of magical items and powerful spells, battle your way through a horde of ever-changing enemies and defeat the horrible Emperor Stuck.
Why similar: Card Game 48.1%, Roguelite 14.5%, Solitaire 14% ★, Strategy 12%, Fantasy 4.8%
- #50 Loop Hero
67% matchVery Positive93% of 36,055 reviews2021
Dev: Four QuartersPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Card Game 25%, Dark Fantasy 20.1%, Roguelite 16.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Time Management 9.5%
- #51 Arcanium: Rise of Akhan
69% matchVery Positive82% of 813 reviews2022
Dev: Supercombo, Inc.Pub: Rogue Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Arcanium is an Open-world, Strategy Card Adventure that merges Roguelite and Deckbuilding genres like never before. Control your party of three heroes, craft your deck, unlock a vast amount of cards and items and save the world of Arzu from corruption!
Why similar: Card Game 35%, Roguelite 21%, Magic 16.8%, Strategy 10%, Fantasy 8.9%
- #52 Pluto
65% matchVery Positive95% of 331 reviews2026
Dev: Siege Wizard InteractivePub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
A roguelike deckbuilder where you cast elemental spells, outwit monstrous foes, and escape prison on your way to your niece’s birthday party.
Why similar: Card Game 37.4%, Dark Fantasy 25.4%, Strategy 15.1%, Magic 14.3%, Fantasy 3.7%
- #53 Tower Wizard
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,855 reviews2025
Dev: Barribob
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Why similar: Resource Management 25%, Magic 18.6%, Strategy 13.9%, Fantasy 12.8%, Management 9.3%
- #54 Mage and Monsters II
66% matchVery Positive83% of 335 reviews2025
Dev: Lasse Zacho Malver
Windows
Recruit a hero to lead your army, and use spells while they fight for you. Mage & Monsters 2 is an active auto battler, where you choose to either enhance the strength of your hero, reinforce the might of your army, or increase the power of your spells.
Why similar: Magic 28.6%, Management 22.9%, Strategy 18.8%, Roguelite 13.5%, Fantasy 8.4%
- #55 Oraxum Trials
70% matchMixed70% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: Prajna Concepts
Windows
Oraxum Trials is an incremental game where you conduct experiments with the Oraxum, a hexagonal board with magical properties. Harvest souls and use mystical crystals to create wild concoctions. Take on the mantle of soul alchemist and forge your fate, choosing between light and dark forces.
Why similar: Management 34.8%, Resource Management 26.1%, Magic 12.8%, Fantasy 7.4%, Colorful 6.3%
- #56 The Deadly Path
69% matchMixed48% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Owlskip EnterprisesPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
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 19.3%, Dark Fantasy 16.1%, Management 15.4%, Survival 10.5%, Roguelite 10.3%
- #57 Blade Prince Academy
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: Angel CorpPub: Firesquid
Windows
Blade Prince Academy is a new take on tactical RPGs, where you lead your squad of Blade Princes to defend the city of Abjectalia in real-time with pause combat. Use your team's power to devastate any threat, but be vigilant, there is always a price to pay when you make a pact with darkness.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 33.4%, Vampire 33.2% ★, Strategy 23.9%, 2D 5.8%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #58 Sigil of the Magi
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: YongjustyongPub: The Iterative Collective
Windows
Sigil of the Magi blends roguelike deckbuilding with turn-based combat for a deep tactical experience. Navigate a world full of dangers and mystique as you craft your deck, obtain relics, and prepare your party of champions for any challenges ahead!
Why similar: Card Game 47.1%, Magic 21.3%, Fantasy 12.5%, Strategy 12.3%, 2D 4.7%
- #59 Pocket Academy
68% matchVery Positive83% of 203 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Make your dream school in this management simulation game! School got you down?
Why similar: Management 50.7%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 17%, 2D 4.4%, Casual 3.3%
- #60 Paper Kingdom
66% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: obece
Windows
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Why similar: Card Game 30.3%, Management 23.1%, Survival 14.9%, Solitaire 13% ★, Strategy 6.7%