Games Like Out Of Hands

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 34.4%, Deckbuilding 25.2%, Card Game 20.8%, Surreal 13.3%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in blending psychological horror, surreal atmosphere, and innovative card-battling mechanics.

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: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Card Game 23%, Turn-Based Combat 21.8%, RPG 11.2%, Atmospheric 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a similar sense of cosmic dread and surreal, stylized horror through a unique, retro-inspired aesthetic.

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 40.8%, Psychological Horror 30.4%, RPG 15.4%, Strategy 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply atmospheric, card-driven game that focuses on occult lore and psychological tension.

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: Deckbuilding 40.6%, Card Game 35.1%, RPG 15%, Indie 3.1%, Strategy 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a card-based adventure system that brings a dark, tabletop-inspired narrative to life.

"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 20.4%, Card Battler 17.5%, Card Game 16.6%, Turn-Based Combat 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a deeply story-rich experience with intense, card-based tactical combat in a bizarre, high-stakes setting.

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 Battler 31.6%, Deckbuilding 25%, Card Game 20%, RPG 6.7%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Directly explores psychological themes through a deckbuilding framework that mirrors the player's internal struggles.

This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 55.9%, Stylized 17.9%, Adventure 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, nonlinear puzzle game that leans heavily into psychological horror and unsettling exploration.

“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.

Why similar: Card Battler 24.9%, Strategy RPG 16.5%, Deckbuilding 16%, Card Game 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines dark folklore and narrative-driven exploration with a strategic, card-based combat system.

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 29.5%, Deckbuilding 21.9%, Card Game 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends survival-horror elements with deckbuilding mechanics in a bleak, atmospheric environment.

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 29%, Psychological Horror 27.9%, Atmospheric 16.7%, RPG 15.5%, Adventure 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply atmospheric and psychological narrative experience that mirrors the unsettling tone of the seed game.

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 43.7%, Stylized 18%, RPG 12%, Strategy 10.9%, Atmospheric 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, horror-themed dungeon crawler where the cards dictate your path through a nightmarish world.

A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 32.1%, Card Game 24.3%, Card Battler 21.6%, Turn-Based Combat 10.5%, RPG 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a grim, dark-fantasy world paired with complex deckbuilding and roguelike exploration.

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: Strategy RPG 30.6%, Psychological Horror 19%, Card Game 13.5%, Stylized 11.9%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique, stylized horror aesthetic to deliver a strategic simulation experience.

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 27.1%, Deckbuilding 20.4%, Card Game 17.5%, Turn-Based Combat 9.4%, Surreal 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines card-battling with roguelike elements in a stylized, dark fantasy setting.

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 34.6%, Deckbuilding 29.3%, Card Game 18.4%, Strategy 6%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian deckbuilder that focuses on building tension and horror through its 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 Battler 21%, Deckbuilding 18.4%, Card Game 14.9%, Thriller 9.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A horror-themed card game that focuses on the tactical management of supernatural threats.

Deck of Ashes is an adventure game with tactical card combat. One character at a time, lead the cast of antiheroes on a quest for redemption. Explore the cursed fantasy world and hunt down powerful cards. Forge a unique Battle Deck, and crush your foes! Can you rid the world of the Ash Curse?

Why similar: Card Battler 32.5%, Deckbuilding 22.4%, Card Game 11.3%, Turn-Based Combat 7.7%, RPG 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric card-battler set in a decaying world that emphasizes tactical deck management.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Card Game 40.4%, Hand-drawn 21.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Uses card-based mechanics to create a grounded yet surprisingly intense survival experience.

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 Battler 25.5%, Deckbuilding 21.5%, Card Game 17%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.2%, Turn-Based Combat 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that leans into dark, surreal themes and challenging combat.

Deck-building meets monster catching in this turn-based roguelike. Recruit enemy cards to your party as you dive into the depths of the abyss. Will you kill them or will you tame them?

Why similar: Card Battler 25.9%, Deckbuilding 20.4%, Card Game 16.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A creature-collecting deckbuilder that uses card mechanics to explore a strange, stylized world.

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: Deckbuilding 22.8%, Card Battler 20.1%, Card Game 18.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy, card-based adventure that focuses on choice and atmospheric storytelling.

In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?

Why similar: Deckbuilding 37.4%, Card Game 34.1%, RPG 14.4%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused game that uses a card-based conversation system to explore complex, surreal human connections.

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: Deckbuilding 24.9%, Card Game 21%, Hand-drawn 20.6%, RPG 9.9%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tabletop-inspired horror game that captures the feeling of a dark, occult-themed board game.

Welcome again, wandering soul. Will this be the time of your success? Watch your steps as you advance in this roguelike-deck builder and engage in auto-battler card encounters of increasing difficulty. Get stronger in each battle, rise from the ashes, and break free from endless reincarnation!

Why similar: Card Battler 20.6%, Deckbuilding 17.5%, Card Game 12.8%, Strategy RPG 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A tabletop-inspired card game that focuses on strategic depth and recurring, surreal scenarios.

Master the grid, defy death. Enter a grim Spirit Realm in this open-world deck builder. Craft lethal decks from 160+ cards, claim powerful Totems, and defeat foes in tactical grid combat. Fight as the desperate hunter Ro to bring her son back from beyond the veil.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 22.1%, Card Battler 19.6%, Surreal 17.8%, Card Game 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, surreal deckbuilder that incorporates souls-like elements into its card-based combat.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Surreal 46.4%, Psychedelic 34%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Adventure 3.9%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a bizarre, surreal aesthetic that feels both nostalgic and deeply unsettling.

Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.

Why similar: Card Battler 23.4%, Deckbuilding 14.8%, Card Game 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Strategy RPG 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly stylized card-battler that emphasizes positioning and tactical movement in confined spaces.

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 25.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 24%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, RPG 10.2%, Strategy 9.2%

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: Card Game 33.4%, Surreal 29%, Strategy 13.5%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy, card-based strategy game that maintains a consistent, unsettling horror tone.

Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.

Why similar: Surreal 51%, Multiple Endings 25.7%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Adventure 7.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: An intensely atmospheric and surreal game that explores psychological themes through a unique, color-based resource system.

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 22.2%, Deckbuilding 21%, Card Game 10.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, Surreal 7.8%

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: Deckbuilding 21%, Card Game 18.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Stylized 10%

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 27.2%, Deckbuilding 25.2%, Card Game 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

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 Battler 16.4%, Deckbuilding 14.8%, Strategy RPG 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Card Game 11.9%

"May all stories find their best endings." "Depersonalization" is an anthology-style game featuring standalone chapters and diverse story genres. We continuously collect and create a wide variety of stories, ultimately housing them in a library that transcends the flow of time.

Why similar: Card Battler 35.6%, Strategy RPG 34.1%, RPG 11.2%, Card Game 10.9%, Strategy 7%

DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.

Why similar: Card Battler 34.8%, Card Game 25.6%, Deckbuilding 23%, Strategy 13.2%, Indie 1.9%

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: Surreal 38.2%, Card Game 32.9%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 4.5%

Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…

Why similar: Surreal 53.4%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Adventure 6.3%, Indie 3.7%

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 25.6%, Deckbuilding 20.2%, Card Game 17.1%, Turn-Based Combat 12.1%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries

Why similar: Surreal 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

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%, Hand-drawn 20%, Stylized 15.4%, RPG 13.6%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Cross Blitz is a unique RPG deckbuilder featuring fast-paced tactical combat with loads of cards to collect and synergies to wield. Explore, level up, craft new cards and build the perfect decks as you carve your own path to victory!

Why similar: Card Battler 23.5%, Deckbuilding 20.6%, Card Game 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Turn-Based Combat 8%

CARDS OF CTHULHU is the Roguelike Card RPG full of madness. Experience the unique combination of strategic deck-building with fast-paced combat and face-off parody monsters from horror B movies.

Why similar: Card Battler 37%, Deckbuilding 29.7%, Card Game 23.5%, RPG 7.8%, Singleplayer 2%

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: Psychological Horror 27.6%, Card Game 25%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Adventure 7.5%

Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.

Why similar: Surreal 23.9%, Psychedelic 22.7%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Thriller 12.4%

Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Hand-drawn 22.5%, Multiple Endings 21.2%, RPG 11.1%, Atmospheric 10.7%

Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience. Trapped inside a warped digital nightmare by a mysterious entity, you must navigate a world where technology distorts reality.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 62.2%, Atmospheric 30.5%, Singleplayer 7.2%

HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61%, Strategy 23.8%, Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 6.2%, Indie 2%

"Fatermyth" is an RPG game that combines tabletop role-playing and adventure. The storylines of seven characters from different eras intertwine, depicting an epic of human heroes. The strategic battles with dice + skills add more challenges to the adventure.

Why similar: Card Battler 20%, Deckbuilding 18.4%, Card Game 13.3%, Turn-Based Combat 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%

Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 39.1%, RPG 33.8%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 3.1%

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: Deckbuilding 34.5%, Card Game 30.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Stylized 7.9%

Cards of the Dead is a survival card game. Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Card Battler 33.8%, Deckbuilding 23.6%, Card Game 21.3%, RPG 7.9%, Strategy 7.1%

"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: Card Game 44.9%, Surreal 24.1%, Strategy 18.7%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Deckbuilding 4.4%

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: Psychedelic 43.1%, Stylized 15.9%, Surreal 15.8%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.2%

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 23.3%, Deckbuilding 19.1%, Card Game 15.3%, Turn-Based Combat 10.1%, Hand-drawn 9.4%

Lin Yue'an embarks on a journey home, but unsettling events soon disrupt her ordinary life. Strange dreams, lost memories, and eerie occurrences lead her to uncover hidden truths. Can she trace everything back to its true origin and escape the net of fate that has already been woven around her?

Why similar: Surreal 27.7%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Stylized 15.8%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Atmospheric 11.4%

You were hired to extract a bioengineer. Now your team is cut off, your comms are dead, and you're surrounded by something wearing human skin. Hold the line, make the calls, and survive the night in this choice-driven visual novel with turn-based combat.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 21.3%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, RPG 14.7%, Hand-drawn 11.6%

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 23.1%, Psychological Horror 19%, Card Battler 18.4%, Thriller 16.2%, Deckbuilding 14.2%

Iris and The Giant is a fusion of the CCG, RPG and roguelike genres. You play as Iris, who must brave her fears in her imaginary world. Dive into a melancholic and gripping adventure, filled with cute monsters and buried memories. Ready to face your inner demons?

Why similar: Card Battler 25.6%, Deckbuilding 20.7%, Card Game 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Surreal 9.9%