- #1 Cardboard Town
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,329 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 14.7%, City Builder 14.3%, Solitaire 12.5% ★, Card Battler 10.2%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its card-based city building, limited space, resource balancing, and disaster management make it one of the closest mechanical relatives to Stacklands.
- #2 Simmiland
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,956 reviews2018
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Why similar: Card Game 56.2%, Simulation 21.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Indie 7.6%, Casual 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: This minimalist card-driven god game has you play terrain, people, resources, and events to nurture a growing civilization.
- #3 Paper Kingdom
96% matchMixed61% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: obece
Windows
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Why similar: Card Game 14.1%, Solitaire 13% ★, Card Battler 12.6%, City Builder 11.7%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly combines cards, village management, survival needs, construction, and roguelite-style runs in a compact format.
- #4 WitchHand
95% matchVery Positive91% of 637 reviews2024
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.
Why similar: Card Game 20.7%, Card Battler 17.3%, Management 15.5%, Tabletop 10.5%, Deckbuilding 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its solitaire-like card manipulation becomes a satisfying colony-management puzzle about expanding production chains and settlements.
- #5 Kaya's Prophecy
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 243 reviews2025
Dev: Jérémie & ThibautPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.
Why similar: Card Game 23.6%, City Builder 23.1%, Management 16.4%, Roguelite 11%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: This card-focused settlement game centers on building a village, assigning resources, satisfying gods, and surviving escalating challenges.
- #6 Vertical Kingdom
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: Farlight Games IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!
Why similar: Card Game 18.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Management 12.2%, Roguelite 10.2%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs card placement with constrained city-building decisions, asking you to construct a functioning kingdom from a limited board.
- #7 Card Survival: Tropical Island
93% matchVery Positive95% of 3,067 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 44.1%, Survival 28.5%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a much harsher, more detailed version of Stacklands' survival loop through card-based crafting, injuries, hunger, and shelter building.
- #8 Kingdom's Deck
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 544 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: Card Game 25.8%, City Builder 25.5%, Management 14.6%, Survival 13.9%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is a card-based kingdom builder where every draw and placement affects your settlement's economy, defenses, and survival.
- #9 Ratropolis
91% matchVery Positive88% of 5,542 reviews2020
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
Why similar: Card Battler 21%, Card Game 20.1%, Deckbuilding 13%, Roguelite 11.7%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It merges deckbuilding with real-time city survival, requiring you to establish an economy and defend a growing rat settlement.
- #10 Terracards
91% matchVery Positive85% of 762 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Purrfect
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and structures through cards, transforming them into valuable resources and wealth with each turn. But beware - deplete your funds, and it's game over.
Why similar: Management 20.5%, Deckbuilding 18.1%, Card Game 17.9%, Roguelite 16.9%, Building 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: This relaxing but strategic card-builder has you place terrain and manage development across a small, highly readable landscape.
- #11 Lucky Mayor
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: MadGoat Game Studio
Windows · Mac
This is a Rogue Deck-building game where you play as a mayor, recruit various citizens to earn coins, meet their needs, and submit enough coins by the deadline to complete challenges.
Why similar: Card Game 31.2%, Card Battler 23.9%, Roguelite 19%, Deckbuilding 10.3%, Strategy 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite card choices and city-building economy capture Stacklands' appeal of making a functional settlement from unpredictable options.
- #12 Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,182 reviews2025
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
Why similar: Card Game 50.2%, Survival 34.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Fantasy 3.2%, Indie 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its card interface turns wilderness survival, crafting, and long-term self-sufficiency into methodical resource-management decisions.
- #13 The Wandering Village
88% matchVery Positive92% of 8,498 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Management 30.4%, Survival 16.9%, Simulation 6.4%, Cute 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines village construction, food and resource logistics, and survival pressure in a charming but demanding compact colony sim.
- #14 Stacks:Space!
89% matchVery Positive84% of 111 reviews2023
Dev: Stacks:Engine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!
Why similar: Card Game 42.4%, Management 19%, Building 17.7%, Survival 10%, Cute 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the same literal stacking-and-combining interaction to a compact space-survival and crafting setting.
- #15 Against the Storm
86% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Management 19.3%, Survival 15.4%, Building 14%, Roguelite 14%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite colony builder emphasizes adapting settlement production to uncertain resources, dangerous conditions, and repeated runs.
- #16 Cultist Simulator
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 14,243 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.8 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 31.6%, Management 22.1%, Tabletop 18.9%, Roguelite 15.9%, Strategy 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Although far darker and more narrative-driven, it shares Stacklands' tactile card-table interface and emergent resource-combination gameplay.
- #17 Thronefall
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,759 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 55.8%, Building 18.6%, Strategy 16%, Colorful 4.7%, Fantasy 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its stripped-down kingdom building makes economy, expansion, defensive placement, and nightly survival immediately readable and satisfying.
- #18 Dorfromantik
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,653 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 54.6%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Casual 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers Stacklands' compact, soothing satisfaction of gradually assembling a productive settlement, though with far less survival pressure.
- #19 Reigns
86% matchVery Positive87% of 8,136 reviews2016
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 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 74.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 5.9%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its swipeable card decisions condense kingdom management into constant trade-offs between resources, people, and survival.
- #20 Kingdoms and Castles
85% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 37.7%, Management 21.5%, Survival 15.5%, Building 13.9%, Strategy 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers approachable medieval settlement construction with resource chains, expanding populations, and periodic threats to defend against.
- #21 Kingdom Two Crowns
83% matchVery Positive90% of 39,881 reviews2018
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: City Builder 39.6%, Survival 21%, Building 20.5%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling kingdom builder shares the satisfying loop of gathering resources, expanding a settlement, and preparing for nightly threats.
- #22 Loop Hero
82% matchVery Positive93% of 36,571 reviews2021
Dev: Four QuartersPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.
Why similar: Card Game 38.8%, Deckbuilding 26.6%, Roguelite 24.5%, 2D 4.7%, Fantasy 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its card placement and roguelite progression create the same pleasure of building a functioning world from interlocking resource systems.
- #23 As Far As The Eye
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,127 reviews2020
Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Management 17.2%, Tabletop 17.1%, Survival 15.6%, Building 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based settlement planning revolves around carefully managing limited resources while helping a community endure an unforgiving journey.
- #24 Northgard: Definitive Edition
81% matchVery Positive85% of 68,782 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: City Builder 47%, Management 18.3%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its clan-based settlement building emphasizes food, wood, territory, seasonal survival, and choosing the right jobs for limited villagers.
- #25 The Last Spell
79% matchVery Positive91% of 13,760 reviews2023
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Why similar: Roguelite 48.4%, Strategy 26.3%, 2D 12.6%, Singleplayer 6.8%, Fantasy 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This combines rebuilding a battered town's economy with defending it against nightly monster hordes, adding deeper tactical combat.
- #26 Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,448 reviews2026
Dev: Crux Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Card Game 17%, Card Battler 16.1%, Roguelite 12.5%, Deckbuilding 11%
- #27 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
81% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Survival 29.9%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: You build and sustain a small settlement through worker assignments, crafting chains, exploration, and recurring attacks.
- #28 Banished
80% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: City Builder 50.7%, Survival 19.8%, Strategy 9.4%, Management 6.8%, Simulation 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more simulation-heavy village survival game built around keeping a small population fed, housed, healthy, and productive.
- #29 Don't Starve
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,517 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Survival 86.9%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Simulation 3.2%, 2D 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: The card interface is absent, but its crafting, hunger, base-building, and discovery-driven survival loop strongly overlaps with Stacklands' pressure and progression.
- #30 The Pale Beyond
78% matchVery Positive89% of 2,252 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Survival 46.9%, Strategy 16.1%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Simulation 10.8%, 2D 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival-management decisions focus on rationing scarce supplies, maintaining morale, and guiding a small expedition through crisis.
- #31 Rana Card
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,406 reviews2025
Dev: VisionRanaPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rana Card is a roguelike deck-builder where you play as a farm manager chasing TimeTech's KPI targets. Draw cards in high-stakes moments, survive Time Explosions, and unlock powerful cards. Build your deck, chart your own path, and face branching events and cataclysmic years on the road to success.
Why similar: Card Game 33.4%, Deckbuilding 17.4%, Roguelite 16.3%, Solitaire 11.1% ★, Strategy 6.5%
- #32 Luck be a Landlord
77% matchVery Positive93% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: TrampolineTales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 28.2%, Roguelite 25.4%, Management 21.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 5.7%
- #33 Stackmon
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 420 reviews2026
Dev: Riftpoint EntertainmentPub: Alibi Games
Windows · Linux
Stack, train and collect 100+ powerful Stackmon in this creature-collector with a card-stacking twist! Build your camp, challenge rival Scouts in combat and face the mysterious corruption spreading throughout your land.
Why similar: Card Game 29.7%, Card Battler 28.1%, Building 10.7%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #34 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
75% matchVery Positive93% of 44,849 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Why similar: Management 51.1%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Simulation 12.4%, 2D 7.1%, Singleplayer 5.7%
- #35 Cropdeck
74% matchVery Positive92% of 444 reviews2026
Dev: PiotrekPub: Mad Head Bump
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plant, grow, and harvest in this farming roguelite deckbuilder. Craft a powerful deck of plants and combine quirky scarecrows with passive effects for wild synergies. Pay taxes. Strategic, satisfying, and delightfully wholesome.
Why similar: Card Game 31.4%, Roguelite 19.1%, Deckbuilding 18.9%, Management 12.6%, Strategy 8.5%
- #36 Sheltered
78% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Survival 46.3%, Management 23.6%, Building 12.4%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: You manage survivors, rooms, crafting, food, water, and dangerous expeditions in a tense small-scale survival base.
- #37 DICEOMANCER
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,624 reviews2024
Dev: 超厚皮猪猪 Ultra Piggy StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 Game 35.7%, Card Battler 29.7%, Deckbuilding 15.1%, Strategy 12%, Colorful 3.9%
- #38 Ballionaire
73% matchVery Positive84% of 2,700 reviews2024
Dev: newobjectPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
Why similar: Card Game 24.2%, Card Battler 23.2%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Roguelite 14.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #39 Wildfrost
74% matchVery Positive83% of 8,859 reviews2023
Dev: Deadpan GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Why similar: Card Battler 30.3%, Card Game 27.8%, Deckbuilding 15.3%, Roguelite 14.4%, Strategy 4.8%
- #40 Peglin
73% matchVery Positive84% of 17,718 reviews2024
Dev: Red Nexus Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 36.5%, Roguelite 30.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Cute 8.9%, 2D 5.4%
- #41 Dicey Dungeons
75% matchVery Positive89% of 11,889 reviews2019
Dev: Terry Cavanagh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Why similar: Card Battler 36.7%, Card Game 18.2%, Deckbuilding 17.5%, Roguelite 13.9%, Strategy 4.7%
- #42 Cat God Ranch
72% matchVery Positive93% of 2,203 reviews2024
Dev: CrazyPotato Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!
Why similar: Management 22.8%, Card Battler 22%, Card Game 19.2%, Deckbuilding 13.6%, Roguelite 11.4%
- #43 Decks of the Damned
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 84 reviews2025
Dev: Thorian GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Raise an undead army in Decks of the Damned! Command your vampire minions, scavenge gear from fallen foes and craft powerful items to strenghten your forces. Defend by day, expand your domain by night, and shroud the land in darkness!
Why similar: Card Game 17.5%, Card Battler 15.9%, Solitaire 13.2% ★, Management 12.5%, Survival 10.1%
- #44 RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
70% matchVery Positive82% of 4,672 reviews2026
Dev: Doraccoon Pub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying combos. Stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until all the coins drop.
Why similar: Card Game 29.5%, Deckbuilding 22.3%, Roguelite 17.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Cute 6.2%
- #45 Inscryption
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 148,820 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 16.5 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 Battler 32.5%, Card Game 31.4%, Deckbuilding 17.5%, Roguelite 12%, Strategy 5.2%
- #46 Cookard
70% matchVery Positive94% of 2,457 reviews2024
Dev: Panitia GameDev
Windows · Mac
Cookard is a cooking game where you run a restaurant by stacking cards to prepare and serve dishes to customers.
Why similar: Card Game 26.5%, Solitaire 22.1% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Management 14.4%, Tabletop 9.6%
- #47 Backpack Hero
70% matchVery Positive86% of 8,531 reviews2023
Dev: JaspelPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
Why similar: Card Battler 28.8%, Deckbuilding 20.4%, Roguelite 16.5%, Building 16.2%, Strategy 7.4%
- #48 Fantasy Village Simulator
71% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 22.5%, Roguelite 21.5%, Card Game 20%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.6%
- #49 Crop Rotation
69% matchVery Positive94% of 561 reviews2023
Dev: Sprouting Potato
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Crop Rotation is a farming-theme card drafting game. Cards are played automatically so you can focus on the deck building and building synergies.
Why similar: Card Game 48.7%, Deckbuilding 29.8%, Strategy 9.6%, 2D 4.7%, Simulation 3%
- #50 Tiny Kingdom
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 154 reviews2025
Dev: neltile
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Card Game 22.2%, Management 15.8%, Deckbuilding 14.3%, Building 12.5%
- #51 Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
68% matchVery Positive82% of 3,580 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Moss CollectorsPub: Yogscast Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.
Why similar: Card Game 29.9%, Card Battler 25.6%, Deckbuilding 17.3%, Roguelite 13.4%, Strategy 7.2%
- #52 These Doomed Isles
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 234 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Card Game 25.2%, Deckbuilding 15.5%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 7.4%
- #53 Grime&Gold
67% 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: Solitaire 23.8% ★, Card Battler 21.5%, Card Game 17%, Management 13.3%, Survival 10.8%
- #54 Castle Cardians
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 133 reviews2021
Dev: 风宇冲
Windows
Castle Cardians fused card games,roguelike and real time colony defense together. Build your powerful deck, defend the castle and beat invaders.
Why similar: Card Game 34.4%, Card Battler 26.1%, Deckbuilding 20.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Cute 4.3%
- #55 Decklings
66% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Dark Lizard GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Tame magical creatures called Decklings and lead them into challenging battles in this resource management, deckbuilding card game. Explore wild biomes, gather resources, and craft items to build your base and raise your Decklings as you shape your path to become the Deckling Champion.
Why similar: Card Battler 21.5%, Card Game 19.1%, Management 14.6%, Deckbuilding 13%, Survival 12.9%
- #56 Spiritstead
66% matchVery Positive84% of 174 reviews2026
Dev: Turbo Dog Games
Windows
Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Management 21.9%, Building 16.2%, Hand-drawn 7.5%, Cute 6.4%
- #57 Backpack Battles
65% matchVery Positive91% of 20,742 reviews2025
Dev: PlayWithFurciferPub: IndieArk
Windows · Linux
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.
Why similar: Card Battler 49%, Strategy 26.2%, Hand-drawn 8.6%, Cute 6%, 2D 4.5%
- #58 Slay the Spire
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 218,929 reviews2019
Dev: Mega Crit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.5 hrsMean: 67.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Why similar: Card Game 35.8%, Card Battler 33.7%, Deckbuilding 15.1%, Roguelite 8.3%, Strategy 4.5%
- #59 shapez
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Management 39.1%, Building 26.4%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 5.5%, 2D 5.3%
- #60 Dungeon Clawler
64% matchVery Positive89% of 4,025 reviews2026
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 31.7%, Roguelite 30.4%, Strategy 13.3%, Cute 10.7%, 2D 6.7%