- #1 A Solitaire Mystery
97% matchVery Positive91% of 275 reviews2025
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 51.8% ★, Card Game 27.6%, Puzzle 12.6%, Strategy 4.3%, Minimalist 2.8%
- #2 The Horror at Highrook
96% matchVery Positive90% of 463 reviews2025
Dev: Nullpointer Games
Windows
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 45.2%, Horror 22.6%, Investigation 11.4%, Hand-drawn 7.1%, Story Rich 4.9%
- #3 Roots Devour
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 544 reviews2026
Dev: Rewinding GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 37.4%, Horror 17.9%, Strategy 17.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Atmospheric 8%
- #4 Inscryption
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,872 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 Game 40.7%, Horror 16.2%, Surreal 14.8%, Puzzle 12.6%, Strategy 10.8%
- #5 Balantica
94% matchVery Positive94% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: Team HanzanPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Safely guide the twins to the altar. The path to the altar branches into multiple routes, each filled with trials and unexpected events awaiting the twins. As their companion, you will choose their path, build a deck of cards to give hope and overcome increasingly challenging trials.
Why similar: Solitaire 47.6% ★, Card Game 31.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Hand-drawn 2.9%, Atmospheric 2.4%
- #6 Forbidden Solitaire
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,343 reviews2026
Dev: Grey Alien GamesPub: Night Signal Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.
Why similar: Solitaire 59.3% ★, Card Game 24.1%, Horror 13.2%, Atmospheric 3.4%
- #7 The Foretold: Westmark Legacy
94% matchMixed58% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Nodbrim Interactive
Windows
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 52.3%, Horror 14.2%, Puzzle 14.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Atmospheric 6.2%
- #8 Deckline
91% matchVery Positive83% of 319 reviews2025
Dev: Room Games
Windows
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 48.7%, Horror 18.8%, Strategy 16.1%, Puzzle 15.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #9 Cultist Simulator
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,856 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.5 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 68.5%, Strategy 24.1%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #10 Out Of Hands
90% matchVery Positive94% of 1,493 reviews2025
Dev: Game River
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 Game 33.3%, Surreal 29.1%, Strategy 13.6%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Atmospheric 7.3%
- #11 Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
91% matchMixed63% of 329 reviews2023
Dev: Black Eye Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 Game 47.3%, Strategy 16.1%, Horror 15.9%, Hand-drawn 9.2%, Atmospheric 5.7%
- #12 The Fabulous Fear Machine
89% matchVery Positive90% of 561 reviews2023
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: AMC Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.5%, Card Game 27.3%, Strategy 22.3%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #13 BOOK OF HOURS
89% matchVery Positive89% of 4,246 reviews2023
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Why similar: Card Game 59.9%, Strategy 20.7%, Puzzle 14%, Story Rich 5.4%
- #14 NO-SKIN
86% matchVery Positive95% of 1,316 reviews2025
Dev: NoEye-Soft
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries
Why similar: Surreal 47.7%, Horror 33.1%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Stylized 7.8%
- #15 Photogenic Minds : Identity
88% matchVery Positive89% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: 727 Not Hound
Windows
"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 50.2% ★, Card Game 26.8%, Strategy 11.9%, Surreal 8.2%, Atmospheric 1.8%
- #16 Ring of Pain
86% matchVery Positive92% of 5,048 reviews2020
Dev: Simon BoxerPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 57.8%, Strategy 15.5%, Horror 13.6%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Stylized 5.3%
- #17 Mind Lure
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: Little Tiger Game
Windows
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 Game 42%, Strategy 25.1%, Surreal 17.6%, Horror 12.2%, Stylized 3%
- #18 Neurodeck : Psychological Deckbuilder
87% matchMixed60% of 264 reviews2021
Dev: TavroxGamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Neurodeck is a psychological deckbuilding card game to challenge your fears. Build your deck & capacities by answering personality tests, visiting rooms or meditating. Face your phobia and defeat them through the power of life-inspired cards.
Why similar: Card Game 65.1%, Strategy 23.1%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #19 Faith in Despair
84% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Philipp Lehner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Forge your own cards with triggers, actions and modifiers. Shape your deck and gamble against Death itself. Make one mistake and you will descend into despair.
Why similar: Card Game 69.2%, Strategy 26.2%, Atmospheric 4.6%
- #20 Stray Path
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,025 reviews2025
Dev: zidong gamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stray Path is an innovative adventure and strategy game that blends FreeCell mechanics with roguelike gameplay. Choose from colourful characters and explore a randomly generated world. Drag cards, optimize your choices, select equipment, and uncover the mysteries of this mysterious stray world!
Why similar: Card Game 63.1%, Strategy 30%, Atmospheric 5.3%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #21 Cribbish
82% matchVery Positive86% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Fence Post Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Shuffle chaos. Brew victory. A roguelike deckbuilder where relics, potions, and risky hands rule the table. An arcane twist on Cribbage where potions and relics supercharge your cards and the deck always has an attitude. Choose your build wisely, the cards show no mercy!
Why similar: Solitaire 46.9% ★, Card Game 30.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Stylized 2.6%
- #22 October Night Games
85% matchMostly Positive70% of 90 reviews2020
Dev: Octobear Knight GamesPub: WhisperGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you try to keep the world the way it is or fight for the changes? October Night Games is a digital board game where everyone is a cultist working for one of two different sides. Scour the town for cursed ingredients and make deals with inscrutable entities as something eldrich this way comes.
Why similar: Card Game 35.4%, Horror 16.6%, Strategy 16%, Puzzle 13.9%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
- #23 Dead Town Tales
81% matchVery Positive83% of 479 reviews2023
Dev: 拾遗工作室Pub: Pixmain
Windows
Dead Town Tales is a game that focuses on strategy card building and core Roguelike gameplay. You can learn about this romantic and mysterious world by fighting and exploring, meeting people, ghosts and monsters in Dead Town and experiencing the unknown and making choices together with them.
Why similar: Card Game 55.7%, Strategy 23.8%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Investigation 4.2%, Story Rich 3.4%
- #24 Dice Eater: A Supernatural Mystery Card Game
79% matchMixed61% of 371 reviews2025
Dev: Team Tetrapod
Windows
Dice Eater is a mystery card game based around supernatural powers where players must use their power to uncover the other player's tricks. Use your opponent's tricks against them to turn the tables and win.
Why similar: Card Game 41%, Surreal 21.3%, Strategy 17%, Puzzle 14.9%, Story Rich 5.1%
- #25 Heretic Operative
82% matchVery Positive82% of 89 reviews2019
Dev: C Prompt Games
Windows
A unique digital boardgame with strategy and narrative elements, inspired by games like Pandemic, Arkham Horror, and Talisman. As a Heretic Operative, a secret mage sworn to oppose the Cult, you must harness the arcane without becoming lost in its power.
Why similar: Card Game 54.9%, Strategy 22.1%, Horror 15%, Story Rich 5.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #26 Fortune Seller
77% matchVery Positive91% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Kiwick
Windows
A gothic roguelike shopkeeping game where you sell antiques, read the tarot, and manage your inventory to survive crushing rent increases. Match strange customers with the relics they crave, unlock powerful cards, and gamble your way out of debt, one deal at a time.
Why similar: Card Game 51.9%, Strategy 28.1%, Horror 15.3%, Stylized 3.6%, Indie 0.8%
- #27 Playable Mockup
80% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: 727 Not Hound
Windows
Explore an infinite loop corridor and get to 0 PM to 0 AM by building a "Time manipulation deck". You will be challenged with a life threatening test. Wander the “Dead Soul Corridor” created from a ghost photo. Find a way to get to the soul of the dead.
Why similar: Card Game 67.7%, Strategy 28.4%, Atmospheric 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%, Indie 0.3%
- #28 Exorcism Agency
77% matchVery Positive93% of 283 reviews2025
Dev: YINGGUO GAMEPub: NPC Entertainment
Windows
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 57.6%, Horror 19.5%, Strategy 16.4%, Atmospheric 5.5%, Singleplayer 1%
- #29 Demon's Mirror
78% matchVery Positive87% 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 53.8%, Strategy 17.2%, Puzzle 13.2%, Surreal 11.1%, Atmospheric 3.5%
- #30 Menace from the Deep
76% matchVery Positive85% of 2,373 reviews2024
Dev: Flat Lab
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 Game 54%, Horror 18.8%, Strategy 18.6%, Atmospheric 6.2%, Indie 1.8%
- #31 The Solitaire Conspiracy
78% matchVery Positive89% of 768 reviews2020
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 52.6% ★, Card Game 26.9%, Puzzle 6.5%, Hand-drawn 5.2%, Investigation 5%
- #32 WORLD OF HORROR
75% matchVery Positive90% of 9,764 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Card Game 47.5%, Horror 42.7%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #33 Jewel Match Twilight Solitaire
79% matchVery Positive90% of 153 reviews2018
Dev: Suricate SoftwarePub: Grey Alien Games
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 77.2% ★, Card Game 14.6%, Puzzle 3%, Horror 2.9%, Atmospheric 1.3%
- #34 Zombie Solitaire
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 171 reviews2014
Dev: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 65.3% ★, Card Game 21.3%, Puzzle 6.9%, Horror 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #35 Deck of Souls
75% matchVery Positive82% of 219 reviews2024
Dev: Bigboot StudiosPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
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 63.9%, Strategy 21.9%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Story Rich 5.5%, Singleplayer 1%
- #36 One Turn Kill
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,275 reviews2026
Dev: DenDenPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
One Turn Kill is a PvE card game where card drawing and deck control are the keys to victory. Engage in battles limited to a single turn for an exhilarating, suspenseful experience.Join the protagonist in a pixel art wasteland to face off with the strongest of enemies and see what story awaits.
Why similar: Card Game 41.4%, Solitaire 40.1% ★, Strategy 18.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #37 CLeM
74% matchVery Positive92% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Mango ProtocolPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Why similar: Puzzle 29.7%, Horror 23.7%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Investigation 13.5%, Atmospheric 11.5%
- #38 The Monster Within
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 95 reviews2022
Dev: GMO Free Games
Windows · Mac
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 54.9%, Strategy 21.9%, Horror 12.1%, Hand-drawn 6.4%, Stylized 3.2%
- #39 Care
74% matchVery Positive96% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: The Pocket Dimension
Windows
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Puzzle 33.4%, Investigation 15.3%, Atmospheric 14.8%
- #40 Dimwood
73% matchVery Positive100% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Inkspun LLC
Windows
A roguelike deck builder where you venture into the Dimwood, armed with unique modal cards. Rendered in dense 1-Bit pixel art, carefully build your deck and modify your cards to balance offense and utility. Battle your way past increasingly fearsome enemies and defeat the Beast at its heart.
Why similar: Card Game 50.8%, Puzzle 19.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Minimalist 12.2%, Stylized 3.5%
- #41 Ash of Gods: The Way
73% matchVery Positive81% of 492 reviews2023
Dev: AurumDust
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.
Why similar: Card Game 54.1%, Puzzle 22.1%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Story Rich 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #42 Limb From Limb
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 274 reviews2024
Dev: Spineless StudiosPub: UCSC Games
Windows
The Raymond Mitchell Association personally invites you to join our new limb regrowth program. Engage in a game of chance against another patient, risking the loss of your fingers. We have provided items to aid in your success waiting to be uncovered as you traverse the game board.
Why similar: Card Game 50.8%, Strategy 31.1%, Horror 11.5%, Atmospheric 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #43 THE SPIRIT LIFT
70% matchVery Positive94% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: prettysmart games
Windows
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 Game 54.4%, Horror 22.1%, Strategy 19.8%, Story Rich 3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #44 Pluto
69% matchVery Positive94% of 434 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 53.7%, Strategy 27.5%, Atmospheric 6.5%, Puzzle 5.9%, Hand-drawn 4.8%
- #45 Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure
71% matchVery Positive84% of 219 reviews2025
Dev: Crimson Herring StudiosPub: Zugalu Entertainment
Windows
A Victorian Steampunk Roguelite Deckbuilder. Choose from four characters with unique cards and abilities. Customize your deck and character as you investigate a mysterious plague. Battle corrupted beasts and bosses in turn-based combat to unlock powerful relics and enchanted tarot cards.
Why similar: Card Game 65.8%, Strategy 21.7%, Horror 6.4%, Story Rich 5.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #46 Sultan's Game
68% matchVery Positive94% of 33,952 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 64.8%, Strategy 24.9%, Story Rich 8%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #47 Inkshade
70% matchVery Positive88% of 612 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Vezelle
Windows
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
Why similar: Strategy 41.7%, Horror 36%, Atmospheric 22.4%
- #48 ARSONATE
69% matchVery Positive88% of 134 reviews2026
Dev: NashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Linux
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: Surreal 30%, Horror 26.4%, Strategy 22.1%, Puzzle 20.5%, Singleplayer 1%
- #49 The Simulacrum
72% matchVery Positive83% of 126 reviews2023
Dev: Trynet Games
Windows
The Simulacrum is a deckbuilder with procedurally generated cards. Obtain cards through a roguelite mode, acquire a large collection and challenge the hidden guardians of The Simulacrum.
Why similar: Card Game 73.1%, Strategy 25.4%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #50 BLOODLETTER
69% matchVery Positive80% of 122 reviews2026
Dev: ALDAMAMI GAMES
Windows
A grim medieval deckbuilder where you use your dubious healing methods to protect bizarre villagers from the corrupting influence of ancient evils.
Why similar: Card Game 54.2%, Strategy 21.2%, Hand-drawn 15%, Stylized 7.4%, Indie 1.7%
- #51 CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,511 reviews2025
Dev: Bastinus RexPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 39.7%, Surreal 26.4%, Horror 18.6%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #52 Exorcist: Reviewer of Minds
70% matchVery Positive97% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: 727 Not HoundPub: 727 Not Hound
Windows
Everyone must resist the relentless unfairness with the cards they've been dealt. Use the randomly distributed holy verses to identify the names of the 10 demons. Save 5 people and exorcise the sixth threat lurking in the shadows. This is a compact game of continuous gambles and judgments.
Why similar: Surreal 41.7%, Horror 38.3%, Stylized 16.5%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #53 The False God's Fold
68% matchVery Positive82% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Night Owl Games
Windows
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 Game 63.7%, Strategy 35.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #54 SKALD: Against the Black Priory
67% matchVery Positive94% of 3,517 reviews2024
Dev: High North Studios ASPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
Why similar: Horror 31.6%, Strategy 29.1%, Minimalist 16%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #55 Morimens
67% matchVery Positive82% of 4,181 reviews2024
Dev: B.I.A.V. Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Morimens is a roguelite card-building game inspired by the Cthulhu mythos, where you craft a versatile and intricate deck tailored to your playstyle. The choice is yours to embark on a climb up treacherous towers or engage in tactical battles. Explore misty maps and uncover the truth of the world.
Why similar: Card Game 52.4%, Strategy 18.8%, Horror 15.6%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #56 Blood Card
71% 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: Card Game 73.4%, Strategy 23.7%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #57 Unforgotten
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: ScoreboardGames
Windows · Mac
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 48%, Horror 28.4%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Story Rich 8%, Indie 2.3%
- #58 Knock on the Coffin Lid
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,871 reviews2024
Dev: RedBoon
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 23.3 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 65.4%, Strategy 24.4%, Story Rich 7%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #59 Insight
68% matchVery Positive87% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GravelRoadPub: PaperPixel Games
Windows
Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.
Why similar: Surreal 43.3%, Horror 38.7%, Story Rich 11.4%, Stylized 6.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #60 SCP: CARDTAINMENT BREACH
66% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: BrewByte
Windows
SCP: CARDTAINMENT BREACH is a single-player turn based deck building card game based on the universe of the SCP foundation. You play as D-9341 who has been trapped in a room by 079 but has promised that on finishing of the game will unlock the gates and allow you to escape
Why similar: Card Game 61.6%, Strategy 36.9%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%