Games Like Forbidden Solitaire

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 Battler 28.6%, Card Game 24.6%, FMV 16.5% ★, Horror 14.8%, Dark 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players seeking a dark, meta-narrative card game filled with mystery and horror.

Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.

Why similar: FMV 34% ★, 1990's 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Horror 13.6%, Point & Click 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the 1990s retro-horror aesthetic and unsettling interactive-fiction style found in the seed game.

Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.5%, Horror 26.5%, Card Game 19.6%, Point & Click 19.1%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the lo-fi, dread-filled, 1-bit aesthetic of 90s-era psychological horror.

We need your help, Spymaster. Join a world of near-future spies and take on a supervillain in this supercharged take on classic Solitaire. Precision engineered for replayable espionage action.

Why similar: Solitaire 39.7% ★, FMV 36.9% ★, Card Game 18.6%, Colorful 3.1%, Casual 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully combines classic solitaire mechanics with a high-stakes, cinematic, and narrative-driven atmosphere.

Ancient Enemy is an RPG card battler set in a crumbling world where the forces of evil have already won. Blast distorted enemies with a satisfying range of spells and abilities. Journey into a scarred wilderness and draw power and hope from the landscape to defeat the deadliest foe of all!

Why similar: Solitaire 44.2% ★, Card Battler 23%, Card Game 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Casual 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same creators, this title shares the dark-fantasy card-battler DNA and narrative depth.

If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.

Why similar: FMV 35.5% ★, 1990's 20%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Horror 13%, Point & Click 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the 90s simulation-horror vibe and uses an unsettling, voyeuristic narrative delivery.

Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

Why similar: Horror 56.5%, Dark 43.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the high-stakes, claustrophobic, and unsettling tension of a dark, card-based gambling experience.

Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplayer narrative puzzle game for the terminally curious. Don’t worry; you can always start over.

Why similar: Solitaire 59.3% ★, Card Game 24.1%, Horror 13.2%, Atmospheric 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It directly blends solitaire mechanics with psychological horror in a way that feels both familiar and deeply unsettling.

Enter the Ring of Pain, a roguelike card crawler where encounters come to you. Each step around the ring a dire decision. Go for the loot or backstab a creeping horror? Meet strange friends bearing gifts and treasure. Choose your gear wisely to survive and discover the secrets of the Ring of Pain.

Why similar: Card Game 31.2%, Dungeon Crawler 23.5%, Dark Fantasy 19.1%, Horror 11%, Dark 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, turn-based card crawler that emphasizes dread, survival, and psychological horror.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Point & Click 33.3%, Atmospheric 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at replicating the 90s retro-tech, interactive-fiction horror experience through its meta-narrative structure.

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: Card Battler 20.8%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Card Game 16.3%, Dungeon Crawler 14.3%, 2.5D 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror deckbuilder that emphasizes resource management and a grim, post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

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: Horror 39.9%, Card Game 26.2%, Dark Humor 23.6%, Atmospheric 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, narrative-driven strategy game with a sinister, occult tone that complements the seed's dark-fantasy themes.

The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is here! Inside you will find all seven Zachtronics solitaire games, updated with new 4K graphics, plus one brand new Tarot-themed solitaire variant only available here.

Why similar: Solitaire 70.4% ★, Card Game 26.4%, Casual 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished, authentic, and highly addictive solitaire experience for fans of the core mechanic.

SAY ANYTHING in this bizarre dungeon adventure where words control everything. Fill in the blanks with text or voice to uncover lost abilities, embark on strange quests, and solve mindbending riddles. Can you conquer the crypt and uncover the mystery at the heart of CRYPTMASTER?

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 100%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, text-based dungeon crawler that feels like a forgotten, cursed relic from the 90s.

Research materials about the explorers of the mysterious underground pyramid. An analog horror game about found footage tapes.

Why similar: 1990's 23%, Horror 14.6%, Old School 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Point & Click 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric horror game that shares the dark, old-school vibe and sense of discovery.

You're locked in a room where your only chance of survival is to play blackjack against a sinister dealer. Every hand isn't just a gamble, it's a deal with fate. Fail to repay your debt on time, and you'll fall into darkness... or something far worse.

Why similar: Horror 35%, Dark 27.6%, Card Game 20.1%, Survival Horror 17.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines card-based gambling mechanics with psychological horror elements in a dark, atmospheric setting.

A new hero rises to challenge the Dealer in Hand of Fate 2! Master a living boardgame of infinitely replayable quests - unlock new cards, build your adventure, then defeat your foes in brutal real-time combat! Draw your cards, play your hand and discover your fate!

Why similar: Card Game 79%, Dungeon Crawler 18.2%, Atmospheric 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a mysterious dealer and card-based exploration that mirrors the 'forbidden' and occult feel of the seed.

In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...

Why similar: Dark 58.6%, Horror 31.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative game that, like the seed, plays with the concept of 'cursed' software and genre-bending storytelling.

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.

Why similar: Card Game 40.3%, Horror 30.3%, Dark Fantasy 23.6%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian investigation game that utilizes card mechanics to drive its dark, narrative-heavy mystery.

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 Battler 37.4%, Card Game 34.5%, Dungeon Crawler 20%, Colorful 5%, Atmospheric 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dark-fantasy deckbuilder that focuses on tactical card-based combat and roguelite progression.

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Survival Horror 66.6%, Dark 19.5%, Atmospheric 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the specific 90s retro-tech survival horror aesthetic and psychological depth.

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 30.1%, Survival Horror 24.9%, Horror 21.6%, Dark 14.5%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric exploration game with strong Lovecraftian horror themes and a sense of encroaching dread.

Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.

Why similar: 1990's 24.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Point & Click 15.5%, Horror 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that leans into the detective and horror aspects of 90s-style software.

A Lovecraftian deck-building roguelike. Collect eerie cards and twisted creatures. Strengthen your deck while battling sanity loss in waters haunted by unspeakable entities.

Why similar: Card Battler 50.3%, Card Game 34.6%, Horror 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian deckbuilder that emphasizes psychological horror and strategic card-based combat.

Raise Your Own Ghost Girl+Deckbuilding+Zuma-Style Match-3!Exorcism Agency is an innovative roguelike that finds joy in thrills.Ghosts are back,the human world is like hell,and you,as a top-tier exorcist,will venture into ghost-infested zones,using all kinds of mystical techniques to capture ghosts

Why similar: Card Game 36.7%, Card Battler 36.3%, Horror 18.7%, Atmospheric 4.8%, Casual 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deckbuilding game that focuses on supernatural and occult themes through a card-based lens.

A turn-based card strategy game. You are a Card-Seeker, wandering ruined lands and forgotten realms, collecting forbidden cards—shattered relics of fallen gods. Wield their power to battle twisted creatures and ancient guardians. Each card is a weapon. Each play, a gamble.

Why similar: Card Battler 44.6%, Card Game 32.4%, Dark Fantasy 18.9%, Casual 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, turn-based card battler that fits the occult and horror aesthetic of the seed game.

DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

Why similar: Survival Horror 43.1%, Horror 40%, Atmospheric 16.9%

Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian fishing game that shares the unsettling, atmospheric dread and mystery of the seed.

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Horror 61.7%, Atmospheric 20.3%, Dark 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, claustrophobic horror experience that nails the retro-tech, low-fidelity aesthetic of 90s horror.

A retro mini-roguelike inside a slot machine. Steady your blade - and spin!

Why similar: 1990's 33%, Dark Fantasy 31.8%, Card Battler 17.6%, Old School 9%, Atmospheric 4.6%

A 50's horror comic themed deck building card game with roguelike progression elements. Stop yourself from turning into a monster, or embrace your inner evil and use your new gifts. Choose from a roster of classic monsters and duke it out in The Monster Within!

Why similar: Card Game 75.1%, Horror 24.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deckbuilding roguelite that leans into dark, psychological themes and challenging card-based encounters.

A collection of mysterious solitaires. The solitaires included vary from fairly standard cardgames to funky reimplementations of other games in solitaire form.

Why similar: Solitaire 67.3% ★, Card Game 32.7%

KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 26.9%, Horror 26.6%, Point & Click 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 18.1%, Casual 4.4%

A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

Why similar: Card Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Horror 21.8%, Dark 14.1%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Beat the Devil at his own game. The Killing Stone is a deckbuilding card battler wrapped in a 17th century occult horror narrative. Clean the sins of a cursed family by bargaining against a series of demons - and outwitting the Devil himself.

Why similar: Card Battler 29.6%, Card Game 24.8%, Horror 14.9%, Dark 9.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%

A retro horror deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel in the 1990s. Choose your teens, explore and fight! If you die rewind the night!

Why similar: Card Battler 32.2%, Card Game 30.6%, Horror 18.7%, Survival Horror 18.4%

It was a dark and stormy night... for Solitaire! Unravel this creepy-crawly Solitaire adventure that will leave your spine tingling! Discover and rebuild eerie derelict castles, but beware of vampires roaming the land. 200 levels in all, plus 50 bonus mahjong levels to unlock!

Why similar: Solitaire 76.7% ★, Card Game 13.3%, Horror 4%, Casual 2.4%, Colorful 2.1%

Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

Why similar: Card Battler 40.2%, Card Game 38.4%, Horror 21.5%

Join Winnie on a new adventure, from within! Play as a virus in his body and mind. Capture cells to mutate and build a deck of actions to unleash in combo-driven combat. A genre-blending roguelite with a dark yet charming story. Embrace discomfort - Sometimes we can't help being seen as a monster...

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 28.7%, Dark Humor 27.9%, Dark Fantasy 17.7%, Dark 14.4%, Horror 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 Battler 51.3%, Card Game 37.4%, Atmospheric 11.3%

The unhinged roguelike for the tactically obsessed. Forget maps—your journey is a deck of Tarot cards you build on the fly. Manage a tight inventory, chain questionable combos, and watch your gear shatter. Got unlucky? The virtuous can resurrect; the sinful, however...

The dark tide of the lost rises, and with it comes a chasm through the skies. The cosmic voice that eats up light. Leaving all but frail, wretched beings bereft of spirit who wander the lands in search of the spark, the ember of life. Beware the grey, indomitable fog.

Why similar: Solitaire 49% ★, Card Battler 24.9%, Card Game 19.4%, Colorful 4.5%, Casual 2.2%

Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse! Biting humor and fun card-game action await you in Zombie Solitaire.

Why similar: Solitaire 63.2% ★, Card Game 18.8%, Horror 8.4%, Point & Click 7.3%, Casual 2.4%

Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht in this rogue-like dice builder.

Why similar: Card Battler 32.9%, Point & Click 19.2%, Dark Humor 17.2%, Demons 15.6%, Horror 13.2%

Deckline is an atmospheric war-horror card game. Out of ammo and encircled, you play one last game of Durak to distract from the inevitable. Experience the grit and dread of modern combat through the lens of a board game.

Why similar: Card Game 39.2%, Horror 22.7%, Card Battler 21.9%, Dark 12.9%, Casual 3.3%

Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.

Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Old School 30.9%, Dark 25.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?

Why similar: Card Game 27.3%, Survival Horror 26.6%, Dark Fantasy 26.1%, Dark Humor 19.9%

UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!

Why similar: Card Game 26.6%, Horror 23.6%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Dark 13.8%, Atmospheric 9.5%

Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Horror 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Point & Click 13.4%

Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Adventure through its decaying programs, solve puzzles, collect items and meet strange creatures.

Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Point & Click 29.3%, Dark 19.2%, Colorful 16.9%

"デッキ構築型３D探索サイコホラー"。 PM0:00からAM0:00までの12時間を支配し、無限ループを抜けて死者の魂を捕獲して下さい。 使えるのはたった1つのカメラだけ。

Why similar: Solitaire 58.9% ★, Card Game 28.7%, Dark 8.3%, Atmospheric 2.6%, Horror 1.4%

A horrific retro point and click adventure with combat

Why similar: Point & Click 26.7%, Horror 26.6%, Dungeon Crawler 22%, Dark 10.3%, Old School 7.9%

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 32.6%, Card Battler 25%, Point & Click 14.2%, Horror 13.3%, Dark 9.5%

Menace from the Deep is an enthralling Roguelike Deckbuilding card game that unfolds in a dark world, drawing inspiration from Howard Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Set against the backdrop of 1920s USA, the narrative revolves around a clandestine occult society.

Why similar: Card Battler 37.8%, Card Game 28.8%, Horror 15.1%, Dark 13.7%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.

Why similar: Card Battler 31.5%, Card Game 26.4%, Dungeon Crawler 20%, Dark Fantasy 19.8%, Casual 2.2%

This occult item will guide you through a bizarre in-between world and help you to confront past demons as well as piece together former memories that may lead to closure. Seek a better understanding of who you were, who you’ve loved and how much you’ve lost in this 3rd person horror adventure game.

Why similar: 1990's 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Horror 17.1%, Dark 12.3%, Atmospheric 7%

Roguelite deck-building meets souls-like. Break out of an infinite loop to close the hell gates, turn enemies into cards, and build your own omnipotent Deck of Souls! Rolls included.

Why similar: Card Game 35.8%, Card Battler 34.6%, Dark Fantasy 23.6%, Atmospheric 6%

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 47.6%, Horror 21.7%, Dungeon Crawler 12.3%, Dark 9.4%, Survival Horror 5.2%

Nadir is a roguelike deck-builder with a twist: the cost to play a card is an enemy reaction you can predict. Craft your own cards to slay powerful demons. Gather resources, expand your city, grow in power and conquer the underworld.

Why similar: Card Battler 25%, Card Game 23.5%, Dark Fantasy 17%, Demons 12.6%, Horror 11.9%

A psychological horror game where you take the role of Jonah, an 18 year old trying out a new board game, The Ouija Board, with his friend Emily. Little did they know, it was far from a simple board game.

Why similar: Horror 46.7%, Demons 30%, Atmospheric 16.9%, Casual 6.4%

Outwit the HOST in a death game where fire spreads with each flip of a card. Be the last to burn. Do you fear death?

Why similar: Horror 41.9%, Dark 30.2%, Point & Click 27.9%