- #1 Reigns
97% matchVery Positive87% of 8,051 reviews2016
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.4%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Medieval 16.1%, Life Sim 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive card-based kingdom management game that shares the exact swipe-to-decide mechanic found in the seed game.
- #2 Reigns: Her Majesty
96% matchVery Positive83% of 1,294 reviews2017
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns.
Why similar: Card Game 21.9%, Life Sim 21.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Medieval 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A direct follow-up to the original Reigns that maintains the same addictive, choice-driven card gameplay in a royal setting.
- #3 Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
96% matchVery Positive95% of 967 reviews2022
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
Why similar: Card Game 14%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 12.5% ★, Turn-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%, Medieval 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel to the seed game, offering more of the same medieval life-simulation and branching narrative paths.
- #4 Choice of Life: Wild Islands
95% matchVery Positive93% of 343 reviews2024
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Conquer the jungle and prove that in any situation you - the master of your fate!
Why similar: Card Game 15.5%, Turn-Based 13.3%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 13% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Another entry from the same developers that applies the familiar choice-based card mechanics to a new, adventurous setting.
- #5 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
94% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 35.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Medieval 14.6%, RPG 10.3%, Strategy 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, narrative-heavy RPG where every single choice you make significantly alters the protagonist's life and the world around them.
- #6 Yes, Your Grace
94% matchVery Positive87% of 13,642 reviews2020
Dev: Brave At NightPub: No More Robots
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Turn-Based 17.1%, Medieval 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Life Sim 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval management game that forces you to balance the needs of your kingdom with the limited resources available to you.
- #7 Suzerain
93% matchVery Positive93% of 11,092 reviews2020
Dev: Torpor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 38.3%, Choices Matter 24.7%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, RPG 10.4%, Adventure 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A political management game that focuses heavily on the consequences of your decisions while navigating a complex, text-driven narrative.
- #8 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,518 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Card Game 22.5%, Life Sim 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A life-simulation game that uses a deck-building mechanic to represent your character's growth and the choices you make over time.
- #9 Long Live The Queen
91% matchVery Positive95% of 7,115 reviews2013
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Medieval 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes life simulation where you must manage your character's education and decisions to survive a dangerous political landscape.
- #10 King of Dragon Pass
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 550 reviews2015
Dev: A SharpPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 22.7%, Medieval 16.6%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Strategy 15.5%, RPG 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, text-heavy strategy game that requires you to make difficult tribal decisions that impact the future of your people.
- #11 Choice of Life: Samosbor
89% matchVery Positive88% of 191 reviews2025
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?
Why similar: Card Game 23.4%, Life Sim 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9%
Why You'll Like It: Another title from the same developer that utilizes the signature card-based decision system in a unique, atmospheric setting.
- #12 Death and Taxes
90% matchVery Positive86% of 8,138 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Choices Matter 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique narrative game where you play as a Grim Reaper making life-or-death decisions that affect the balance of the world.
- #13 80 Days
89% matchVery Positive90% of 2,020 reviews2015
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Choices Matter 25.4%, Strategy 13.1%, Multiple Endings 13%, Adventure 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven resource management game where your choices determine the success of your journey around the world.
- #14 Beholder
87% matchVery Positive92% of 30,197 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Choices Matter 32.4%, Multiple Endings 20.5%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Singleplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game that forces you to make moral choices while balancing your own survival against the needs of others.
- #15 Crown Gambit
86% matchVery Positive97% of 350 reviews2025
Dev: WILD WITSPub: Playdigious Originals
Windows · Mac
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 17.7%, Turn-Based 16.6%, Medieval 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A story-rich RPG that focuses on political intrigue and the impact of your choices on the fate of a kingdom.
- #16 Reigns: Game of Thrones
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,029 reviews2018
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Reigns: Game of Thrones is the heir to the award-winning HBO® TV series Game of Thrones® and the smash-hit swipe ‘em up series Reigns from Nerial and Devolver Digital.
Why similar: Card Game 34%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Medieval 12.5%, RPG 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A thematic expansion of the Reigns formula that fits perfectly into the medieval political intrigue of the source material.
- #17 The Witch's Cauldron
85% matchVery Positive92% of 619 reviews2024
Dev: Harvey games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 22.1%, Medieval 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that features branching narrative paths and multiple endings based on the choices you make during crafting and interaction.
- #18 Roadwarden
84% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, RPG 20.8%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Fantasy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based RPG where your choices and interactions define your character's role and the outcome of your journey through a dangerous land.
- #19 Mittelborg: City of Mages
86% matchMixed63% of 115 reviews2019
Dev: Armatur GamesPub: Asterion Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?
Why similar: Turn-Based 30.1%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy and management game that requires you to make difficult choices to keep your city alive against magical threats.
- #20 Citizen Sleeper
83% matchVery Positive93% of 9,761 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Multiple Endings 44.6%, RPG 31.3%, Indie 12.8%, Adventure 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused RPG that uses dice-based resource management to simulate the daily struggles of life in a precarious environment.
- #21 Pentiment
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,036 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Medieval 23.7%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Adventure 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A historical narrative game where your choices shape the lives of villagers over several decades in a beautifully crafted world.
- #22 KingSim
84% matchVery Positive85% of 209 reviews2020
Dev: Fuzzy Pixel Game Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Medieval 21.9%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Strategy 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward medieval management simulation that focuses on the daily decisions required to rule a kingdom effectively.
- #23 Card Shark
81% matchVery Positive90% of 3,039 reviews2022
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.
Why similar: Card Game 58.6%, RPG 11.2%, Simulation 10.5%, 2D 7.1%, Indie 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven card game set in historical France that focuses on deception and clever decision-making.
- #24 Little Dungeon Stories
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 113 reviews2019
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 48 min≥1hr: 28%
Little Dungeon Stories is a challenging roguelike card-based RPG. Enter the dungeon full of secrets, hostile monsters, deadly traps, and legendary loots. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 26.1% ★, Card Game 23%, Turn-Based 17.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Strategy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based roguelite that emphasizes quick decision-making and exploration in a fantasy dungeon setting.
- #25 The Pale Beyond
79% matchVery Positive89% of 2,115 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Choices Matter 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Adventure 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival management game that focuses on the heavy moral weight of leadership and the consequences of your choices in a frozen wasteland.
- #26 Cultist Simulator
80% 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 36.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Strategy 10.7%, RPG 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A complex, card-based narrative game where you must manage resources and make risky choices to uncover forbidden knowledge.
- #27 Reigns: Three Kingdoms
81% matchMixed53% of 351 reviews2024
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Swipe through military negotiations, marry to strengthen alliances and recruit soldiers to fight in turn-based card battles in this historical epic.
Why similar: Card Game 35.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Strategy 10.3%, RPG 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic take on the Reigns series that incorporates historical Chinese warfare and diplomacy into the card-based gameplay.
- #28 Knock on the Coffin Lid
78% 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 23.5%, Turn-Based 23.3%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 22.9% ★, Fantasy 7.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #29 Papers, Please
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,508 reviews2013
Dev: Lucas PopePub: 3909
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Multiple Endings 26.4%, Simulation 20.8%, Indie 18.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Singleplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic management game that forces you to make moral and logistical decisions under pressure, mirroring the tension of life-sim games.
- #30 Ways of Alchemy
77% 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 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Medieval 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #31 Silmaris: Dice Kingdom
79% matchMixed66% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: PyrogenPub: Mi-Clos Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unforgiving storytelling adventure with dice rolls and turn-based management. Make the right choices and roll the dice to rally the monarchs to your medieval kingdom by diplomacy, war or deception.
Why similar: Turn-Based 36.3%, Medieval 25.9%, Choices Matter 19%, Indie 11%, Fantasy 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that uses dice and resource management to simulate the challenges of ruling a medieval realm.
- #32 Dark Lord
76% matchVery Positive90% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: Undead FoxPub: LTG Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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: Card Game 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Medieval 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Simulation 6.9%
- #33 Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon
74% matchVery Positive92% of 734 reviews2025
Dev: Kygua TechPub: Gamersky Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon is a turn-based Roguelike card game where you assume the role of a Shu general. Explore dungeons, gather relics, and amass a collection of cards. In each round, you can assemble a unique combination of cards and treasures to defeat your enemies and rewrite history!
Why similar: Card Game 25%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 25% ★, Turn-Based 22.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 7.4%
- #34 我的人生
76% matchMixed66% of 510 reviews2025
Dev: ZZ GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
This is a wild and unpredictable life simulator, filled with laughter, banter, and endless possibilities. A strategy game that blends deck-building roguelike mechanics with Luck Be a Landlord-style gameplay. Shape your own life story from 400+ unique events and a deck of 380+ cards!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 24.6% ★, Card Game 24.4%, Life Sim 17.4%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Funny 7%
- #35 PowerSimulator
77% matchMixed42% of 207 reviews2023
Dev: SHIT MAKER
Windows
Do you want to be a upright official or corrupt officials?Choose your choice,Reaching the pinnacle of power.
Why similar: Card Game 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Life Sim 11%, Funny 8%
- #36 Regista: Reign Your Football Club
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: dicehit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Reign Your Football Club! Be the owner of your football club, make strategic choices, and climb through the amateur league to the first while making hard decisions to set everything in line for your club.
Why similar: Card Game 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Funny 7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #37 Nirvana Game Of Life
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Goldtusks
Windows · Mac · Linux
A darkly humorous life simulator where every decision matters. Swipe left or right to guide a life through hundreds of strange events while balancing Health, Money, Social, and Happiness. Live well, die horribly, and try again.
Why similar: Card Game 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Life Sim 20.2%, Choices Matter 9%, Funny 6.1%
- #38 Skogdal
72% matchVery Positive98% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Erlend Kirkeboe
Windows
A deckbuilding adventure card game set in a rustic Norwegian town during the 90's. Recruit followers, draft cards and build powerful combos. Explore a hand-crafted world across multiple runs and uncover an unsettling mystery…
Why similar: Card Game 29.2%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.2% ★, Turn-Based 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #39 The Succession of Changing Kings
71% matchVery Positive88% of 482 reviews2026
Dev: KwaKwaGames
Windows
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: Medieval 29.1%, Choices Matter 22.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Simulation 6%
- #40 Museum Mystery: Deckbuilding Card Game
73% matchVery Positive82% of 181 reviews2024
Dev: ST Stepanov Ivan AndreevichPub: Recently Played
Windows
Museum Mystery is a deck-building, story-driven roguelite adventure where museum exhibits come to life, wreaking chaos. Explore halls from different eras, battle works of art, collect your own deck of artifacts, and solve the mystery!
Why similar: Turn-Based 26.1%, Card Game 25.4%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 14% ★, Choices Matter 10.3%, Strategy 7.2%
- #41 Griftlands
71% matchVery Positive94% of 14,297 reviews2021
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
Why similar: Turn-Based 21.7%, Card Game 21.1%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 13% ★, Choices Matter 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #42 Blood Card
74% matchVery Positive81% of 722 reviews2019
Dev: Pixel Cattle Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
This card game combines elements of roguelike and deckbuilding. During the game, you shall strive ahead, gathering cards to build a unique deck and use it to defeat the enemies getting in your way. You will have to choose between escaping or try to defeat Death, who is relentlessly pursuing you.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 28.4% ★, Card Game 26.8%, Turn-Based 24.1%, Strategy 7.2%, RPG 3.4%
- #43 Poker Quest: Swords and Spades
72% matchVery Positive87% of 707 reviews2022
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Poker Quest is a fantasy roguelike where players use a standard 52-card deck to take on fierce enemies in epic battles. Featuring over 20 unique heroes, thousands of items, and deep gameplay that will test even the most experienced players.
Why similar: Card Game 21.1%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 19.4% ★, Turn-Based 18.3%, Medieval 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #44 Destiny or Fate
75% matchMixed56% of 484 reviews2019
Dev: BlasterPub: GameNet
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Destiny or Fate is a deck-building roguelite game. Choose a hero, build a deck and a party of mythical creatures, and set out on an endless adventure! Are you ready to make your own destiny, or will you succumb to an evil fate?
Why similar: Card Game 25.6%, Turn-Based 24.3%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 20.4% ★, Strategy 7.6%, RPG 5.4%
- #45 Journey to the Void
70% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: RuneHeads
Windows · Mac
Prepare to fend off attacks from all directions in this hybrid strategy roguelite deck builder. On your journey through varied grid-based biomes, battle unique foes and make tough moral choices to restore a corrupted land and decide the fate of your world.
Why similar: Card Game 27.3%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 24.3% ★, Turn-Based 20.4%, Strategy 8.4%, RPG 6.1%
- #46 Trainee Death Simulator
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,956 reviews2024
Dev: Bone Nail
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 31.1%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Medieval 15.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, RPG 6.9%
- #47 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,034 reviews2020
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Medieval 19.7%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 11%, Strategy 8.6%
- #48 Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,319 reviews2025
Dev: Brave At Night
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Rule your crumbling kingdom as you try to satisfy the petty needs of your people in this cinematic kingdom management RPG. Balance your resources, collect taxes, hire agents and make difficult decisions to see your kingdom prosper or fail.
Why similar: Life Sim 17.8%, Medieval 17.3%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #49 Plebby Quest: The Crusades
71% matchVery Positive86% of 2,871 reviews2020
Dev: PiedPipers TeamPub: NEOWIZ
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
Why similar: Medieval 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #50 Card Hog
69% matchVery Positive94% of 541 reviews2023
Dev: SnoutUp
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Card Hog is a pig-based dungeon crawler with roguelike and deck building elements. Take the role of an adventurous hog and interact with more than 100 cards of dangerous enemies, powerful weapons and exciting spells!
Why similar: Turn-Based 33.4%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 30.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Card Game 8.5%, Funny 5.1%
- #51 Deathtrap Dungeon Trilogy
73% matchMixed63% of 113 reviews2018
Dev: Nomad Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A digital adaption of the iconic Deathtrap Dungeon trilogy of books by Ian Livingstone. Play as a novice adventurer and rise up through the ranks in this epic tale of deadly traps, fearsome monsters and devious adversaries.
Why similar: Card Game 19.7%, Turn-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Medieval 9.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%
- #52 The Royal Writ
67% matchVery Positive83% of 463 reviews2025
Dev: Save Sloth StudiosPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy. Each fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom's legend. Command wisely... some sacrifices are necessary.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 26.7% ★, Card Game 26.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Medieval 12.3%, Strategy 9.1%
- #53 Deathless. The Hero Quest
67% matchVery Positive88% of 983 reviews2024
Dev: 1C Game StudiosPub: FOR-GAMES CR LTD
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Deathless, elements of a collectible card game, roguelike, and turn-based strategy combine seamlessly. Build a unique deck of cards, discover unusual relics, and defeat legendary bosses. No two journeys will ever be the same with endless Path. Crush the Evil and save the world!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 29.9% ★, Card Game 27.9%, Turn-Based 23.3%, Strategy 8%, RPG 4.7%
- #54 Castle Morihisa
70% matchMixed67% of 445 reviews2022
Dev: Smokingbear StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
"Castle Morihisa" is a roguelike featuring strategic deckbuilder. You need to build up your deck through constant battles, acquire powerful talents, and wield the power of the Fallen Heroes to unveil the truth behind the rebellion in Castle Morihisa.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.1% ★, Turn-Based 25.3%, Card Game 23.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.2%
- #55 Heroes of Magic & Cards
67% 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: Roguelike Deckbuilder 34.6% ★, Card Game 33.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Indie 3.6%
- #56 Cultivation Story: Infinite Sword Realm
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bid Pond Studio Ltd.Pub: Chi Entertainment Corp.
Windows
Cultivation Story: Infinite Sword Realm is an action-packed roguelike deckbuilder rooted in Cultivation and Chinese mythology, where every action costs you lifespan. Enter the realm of Swords, balance power and mortality as you climb the path to immortality.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 28.9% ★, Card Game 28%, Turn-Based 24%, Strategy 7.4%, RPG 3.8%
- #57 Zoeti
69% matchMixed65% of 503 reviews2023
Dev: Dusklight CO., LTD.Pub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Zoeti is a turn-based roguelite that features a deck of playing cards used to create card combos and activate skills in the heat of battle. Bolster your arsenal of skills through battles, discoverable upgrades, or aid from the locals which enhance your plays to overcome the evil plaguing your land.
Why similar: Card Game 23.7%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 23.4% ★, Turn-Based 23.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Strategy 7.3%
- #58 Medieval Legacy
66% matchVery Positive85% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Ninetoplay
Windows
Start as a humble commoner and guide your family through generations in this family sim meets city builder. Climb the ranks of society to become the most influential family in the land. With wit, strategy, and a bit of luck, build your legacy - just try not to trip over your ambition!
Why similar: Life Sim 23%, Medieval 22.3%, Choices Matter 16%, Strategy 10%, RPG 7.5%
- #59 Pirates? Pirates!
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: Amrita Studio
Windows
Pirates? Pirates! is a Reigns-inspired pirate survival RPG. You are a pirate captain in charge of your ship and crew on the most dangerous adventure of all seas. Fight your way ahead, sort out emergencies, and discover legendary treasures!
Why similar: Strategy 23.1%, Card Game 20.4%, RPG 17.7%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Casual 9.1%
- #60 Who Needs a Hero?
66% matchVery Positive91% of 1,470 reviews2021
Dev: Henrique Faitta ChitolinaPub: Baby Stone Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A stick and a dream: that's all you need in an RPG. Make choices that shape your destiny, build relationships, face epic monsters, and choose between being a feared villain or a legend.
Why similar: Medieval 28.3%, Choices Matter 27.6%, RPG 10.4%, Funny 10.3%, Fantasy 6.1%