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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Strategy, Simulation, Martial Arts.

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The beasts have ravaged your ancestral sect, leaving you as the sole survivor. With your cultivation regressed to Qi Condensation stage, you must start anew. Rebuild strength, recruit disciples, and uncover the dark truth behind the disaster.

Reviews: Mixed — 56% — of 351 reviews
Released: 2026-04-23
Developer: Stack to Ascension
Publisher: Luckycalf
Genres: Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchMixed61% of 2,689 reviews2025
    Dev: Element Game 微元游戏Pub: 噪点游戏 SERICA GAMES
    Windows
    Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    In this cultivation 4X strategy game, your sect has been in peril, and so they open a portal—sending you, a young disciple and their last hope, inside. Stand tall as the new sect leader and guide disciples to rebuild what was lost. Sharpen your focus, master alchemy, and ascend to immortality.

    Why similar: Xianxia 45.3%, Mythology 11.9%, Strategy RPG 10.4%, Resource Management 7.8%, Sandbox 6.9%

  2. #2 Amazing Cultivation Simulator
    96% matchVery Positive86% of 23,604 reviews2020
    Dev: GSQ Games
    Windows
    Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

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  3. #3 Card Cultivation
    96% matchMostly Positive72% of 785 reviews2026
    Dev: DarkIndexPub: IndieArk
    Windows

    Card Cultivation is a card management game that visualizes the process of cultivating immortality through cards. In the game, you will play as a cultivation practitioner: cultivate techniques, explore treasures, and craft weapons, Throughout re-cultivation, you will recover memory.

    Why similar: Xianxia 42.3%, Card Game 11.6%, Tabletop 9.4%, Resource Management 8%, Card Battler 7.9%

  4. #4 Eastern Era
    95% matchMixed65% of 3,155 reviews2026
    Dev: FunYoo Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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    Why similar: Wuxia 44.5%, Martial Arts 19.2%, Management 8.3%, Sandbox 7.9%, Survival 7.5%

  5. #5 The Lost Village
    94% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,124 reviews2024
    Dev: FunYoo Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 39.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?

    Why similar: Martial Arts 43.2%, Resource Management 21.7%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Simulation 8.5%

  6. #6 Ascend From Nine Mountains
    94% matchVery Positive94% of 292 reviews2025
    Dev: Nine Ascension Studios
    Windows · Linux

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  7. #7 Stacklands
    93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,157 reviews2022
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

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    91% matchMixed65% of 70,131 reviews2026
    Dev: ConchShip Games
    Windows
    Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 61.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    "The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

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  9. #9 天外武林 (Traveler of Wuxia)
    92% matchVery Positive85% of 3,208 reviews2023
    Dev: 香港商河洛互動娛樂股份有限公司
    Windows
    Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Traveler of Wuxia is a deck-building rogue-lite game that mixes with Wuxia story and card combination. You will play as a young hero exploring to a unknown martial arts world. Use card combos to unleash powerful techniques and team up with companions to overcome the challenges of the martial world.

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  10. #10 Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game
    91% matchMostly Positive74% of 6,834 reviews2024
    Dev: Darksun Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    90% matchMixed65% of 1,005 reviews2023
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    Windows

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  12. #12 我来自江湖 From Jianghu
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 2,533 reviews2020
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows
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    Windows
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    Windows
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  47. #47 Grime&Gold
    69% matchNo user reviews96% of 68 reviews2026
    Dev: Pemdora
    Windows

    Fancy some cards, alchemist? Grime & Gold is a small game about stacking and mixing cards to craft strange recipes. Open boosters, delve into dungeons to find rare resources, hire goblins to help you to craft the Holy Grail and save the city, and don't forget to serve your shady clients!

    Why similar: Card Game 22.5%, Card Battler 20.4%, Management 15.4%, Survival 15.2%, Resource Management 14.7%

  48. #48 Cardboard Town
    71% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,304 reviews2023
    Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.

    Why similar: Card Game 22.1%, Resource Management 15.4%, Tabletop 14.2%, Management 11.5%, Building 11.2%

  49. #49 Aotenjo: Infinite Hands
    69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,079 reviews2025
    Dev: XO CatPub: XD
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    The Mahjong Roguelike. Aotenjo: Infinite Hands is an deckbuilder where you will use Mahjong styles all over the world to beat innate threats, play different Patterns and combos, reach the "bottom" of Aotenjo, and discover ancient secrets....

    Why similar: Card Game 36.3%, Resource Management 29%, Strategy 14.9%, Management 11.2%, 2D 3.9%

  50. #50 Idle Xanxia
    69% matchVery Positive81% of 81 reviews2026
    Dev: Cezae
    Windows

    Build your cultivator through stats, Dao paths, and rebirth in a deep idle RPG where every choice shapes your progression.

    Why similar: Xianxia 52.8%, Martial Arts 28.4%, Simulation 14.3%, Casual 2.3%, 2D 2.1%

  51. #51 蜀仙传·挂至飞升
    67% matchVery Positive85% of 524 reviews2026
    Dev: 有杕之杜
    Windows

    Form a team, battle, AFK farming, loot grinding, divine weapon forging, artifact refining, pet catching, pet fusion, pet training... all the way to ascension!

    Why similar: Xianxia 80%, Strategy 17.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

  52. #52 Cultivation Idle
    68% matchMostly Positive74% of 65 reviews2026
    Dev: 老鱼工作室
    Windows

    A casual cultivation-themed incremental idle RPG. Start as a Qi Refining cultivator, auto-train, idle, break through realms, explore maps and dungeons, defeat monsters, collect gear, skills, materials, pills, spirit stones and pets, farm, fish, chop wood, mine, cook, forge, and plan long-term growth

    Why similar: Resource Management 57.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Casual 11.1%, 2D 4.1%

  53. #53 Kingdom of Cards
    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 100 reviews2025
    Dev: Rubber Duck GamesPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows

    From cropland to forest, from academy to conqueror's guild, expand territory of your kingdom. As the kingdom grows, crises will quietly arise. No worries: prepare to use the resource cards to train a group of powerful guardians to eliminate enemies and protect your kingdom.

    Why similar: Card Game 29.9%, Strategy RPG 24.3%, Strategy 15.1%, Tabletop 9.8%, Management 8.4%

  54. #54 Worship Demon
    66% matchVery Positive82% of 126 reviews2026
    Dev: 森罗游戏Senlo GamePub: 森罗游戏Senlo Game
    Windows

    "Worship Demon" is a fast 2D survivor with anime xianxia art and dazzling effects. Play a demonic cultivator, explore secret realms, ruins, and seek spells. Survive, beat boss, master Dao, and grow stronger. Each run unlocks new Arts, bonds, talents—forge your own immortal path.

    Why similar: Xianxia 68.3%, Mythology 15.2%, Survival 9.9%, Exploration 2.2%, 2D 2%

  55. #55 Shards of Order
    64% matchVery Positive90% of 543 reviews2026
    Dev: FardustPub: Awaken Realms
    Windows

    A grim RPG with card-based combat where nothing stays dead. Lead a party of survivors through a world undone by shattered Laws. Restore them and reshape the rules of the game, but be ready to face the consequences.

    Why similar: Card Game 44.3%, Card Battler 40.7%, Strategy 6.9%, Exploration 5.5%, Singleplayer 2.6%

  56. #56 Surviving the Aftermath
    68% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

    Why similar: Survival 31.3%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 18.5%, Management 12%, Building 9.7%

  57. #57 Escape Gaia
    67% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2024
    Dev: Current Games
    Windows

    you will play as Gaia, the shattered will of a planet, and command your spaceship to explore new worlds, collect and refine various resources, build a home on the damaged spacecraft, summon a wide range of monsters, and ultimately, devour other shattered wills to repair yourself.

    Why similar: Card Game 32.7%, Card Battler 23.6%, Strategy 12.8%, Building 8.6%, Survival 5.3%

  58. #58 Idle Cultivation
    66% matchMostly Positive78% of 144 reviews2025
    Dev: Linmios
    Windows

    Idle towards Immortality! Ascend the cultivation stages to become immortal. Battle experts, monsters and mythological beasts. Draw talismans, craft powerful equipment and powerful pills to assist you in combat.

    Why similar: Xianxia 65.2%, Mythology 16.3%, Casual 9%, Colorful 8.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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