
Wordlike is a word roguelike—make words, tune your bag of letters, and collect power-ups to beat increasingly difficult levels. If you've played Balatro, it's like Balatro with words 🔠
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Roguelike Deckbuilder, Strategy, Roguelike, Deckbuilding.

Wordlike is a word roguelike—make words, tune your bag of letters, and collect power-ups to beat increasingly difficult levels. If you've played Balatro, it's like Balatro with words 🔠

Tomb of the Bloodletter
Tomb of the Bloodletter is a strategic word roguelike where your keyboard becomes your arsenal. Use your wit to unleash deadly words through tactical combinations of your letters to defeat the denizens of this dingy tomb and claim the Bloodletter for yourself...

Quattro Synchro
Quattro Synchro is a roguelike puzzle game where a familiar Connect Four-style board meets endless strategy. Build combos, collect powerful upgrades, and master ever-changing racks where gravity, physics, and the rules themselves can shift.
Tomb of the Bloodletter is a strategic word roguelike where your keyboard becomes your arsenal. Use your wit to unleash deadly words through tactical combinations of your letters to defeat the denizens of this dingy tomb and claim the Bloodletter for yourself...
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 40.7% ★, Word Game 30.8%, Deckbuilding 12.1%, Roguelike 8.1%, Strategy 6.7%
Quattro Synchro is a roguelike puzzle game where a familiar Connect Four-style board meets endless strategy. Build combos, collect powerful upgrades, and master ever-changing racks where gravity, physics, and the rules themselves can shift.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 53.9% ★, Deckbuilding 19.7%, Roguelike 14.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Score points by playing words that complement your finely-curated art gallery. Come up with the right words to win over even the most challenging critics. Can you make it to the final exhibition?
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 40.6% ★, Word Game 24.7%, Deckbuilding 16.2%, Roguelike 11.1%, Strategy 6.6%
Combine 100's of unique emoji based tokens in this roguelike merge-builder! Find ever more creative combinations of Tokens and Powers to fuse unique strategies and beat this ever more challenging twist on rogue-likes, puzzlers and arcadey games!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 46.3% ★, Deckbuilding 17.7%, Roguelike 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, Strategy 7.8%
Func Key is a spelling roguelike deck builder where your keyboard is the deck! Customize your keyboard to be the ultimate spelling machine, or leave words behind with rule breaking mods. Spell, build, and relax, all to the soothing thock of the keyboard.
Why similar: Word Game 34.8%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 24.5% ★, Deckbuilding 17.2%, Roguelike 12.2%, Strategy 9.5%
A grid-based roguelike deckbuilder where every move sets up your next reaction. Build your deck, collect Elemental Cores and chain powerful elemental combos to defeat your enemies.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 49.6% ★, Deckbuilding 18.7%, Roguelike 14.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%, Strategy 6.1%
This is a new type of strategic roguelike where you fight by combining "dice x cards x tiles." You can create your own strategy by linking the "special effects" of the rolling dice with the "cards" that are activated according to the roll.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 46.4% ★, Deckbuilding 16.4%, Roguelike 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Strategy 7.9%
A dice-building roguelike where you shape a 25-dice board to unleash powerful chained attacks.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 54.1% ★, Deckbuilding 21.6%, Roguelike 12.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%
The quickest way to capture the king? Steal the king's army and strike him with it. Set the board with cards, and shout 'checkmate' with the pieces you've taken!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 46.7% ★, Deckbuilding 19.1%, Roguelike 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.2%, Strategy 7.6%
Losing is not an option: Gamble your way up in this slot machine roguelite! Upgrade and manipulate the machines in your favor. Enhance your reels, win big and break the bank while defying ever-increasing odds.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 47.3% ★, Deckbuilding 18.5%, Roguelike 12.9%, Strategy 8%, Turn-Based Strategy 6%
Watchword is the anagram roguelike. Strategically spell real and made-up words while using magical rule-bending books to score massively satisfying combos. Build your deck of letter tiles and find synergies in this endlessly re-playable twist on classic word games.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 37.7% ★, Word Game 20.4%, Deckbuilding 16.3%, Roguelike 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.2%
is a roguelike deck-building game. With a variety of heroes and classes, hundreds of cards and treasures, and a rich array of genres to explore, there's plenty to discover. Additionally, card enchantment and fusion mechanics help you build a stronger deck.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 49% ★, Deckbuilding 20%, Strategy 10.2%, Roguelike 8.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.3%
A roguelike deckbuilder in a vault that is running out of light. Descend four depths as one of four heroes, building a deck from cards, stones and draughts as you go. Your torch is a resource — let it gutter and experience greater pain. The lords of the vault stand between you and victory.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 50.1% ★, Deckbuilding 20.3%, Roguelike 12.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.7%
Wyrm Words is a deck building word puzzle rougelike. Use your words to fight fantasy creatures with unique abilities. Search for treasures that change the game. Cast spells to protect yourself and devastate your opponents.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 36.7% ★, Word Game 30.1%, Deckbuilding 12.2%, Roguelike 9.3%, Strategy 6%
Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 50.5% ★, Deckbuilding 21.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%, Strategy 7%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.5%
Pickpocket rival birds to build a deck. A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder about a tiny bird's grim migration north through a wretched medieval kingdom. Steal abilities, chart your migratory route, survive.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 49.2% ★, Deckbuilding 21.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Roguelike 7.2%
A chip-based deckbuilder full of clever tricks to secure your victory. Tinker with your chips, slot in modification tubes, and reshape the scoring to craft your ideal strategy. Can you outwit the Rabanaz machine?
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 52.4% ★, Deckbuilding 21.1%, Roguelike 13%, Strategy 11.1%, 2D 1.7%
In Stacko, remember your childhood while earning awesome prizes that change the way you play. Your goal is simple: stack the blocks as high as you can! Earn cards to modify the machine and plushies with powerful bonuses, all while playing this unique twist on the classic arcade experience.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 55.8% ★, Deckbuilding 21.6%, Roguelike 15%, Strategy 6.2%, 2D 0.9%
"Dress the Duel," is a roguelike deckbuilding game where your cards are your wardrobe and your outfit is your arsenal!Build a versatile wardrobe, disrobe strategically, layer outfits for powerful effects, and Dress the Duel!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 56.1% ★, Deckbuilding 18%, Roguelike 14%, Strategy 9.1%, 2D 1.9%
Botanical Warden is a tactical roguelike deckbuilder in which plants are used to fight strategic challenging turn-based combat. Evolve your plants with artificial selection and hybridization to create endless possibilities in your quest to defeat other tribes and conquer a barren island.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 51.8% ★, Roguelike 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.6%, Strategy 8.7%, Deckbuilding 8.5%
The word-building roguelike. 'Mark My Words' is an addictive deckbuilder where you assemble high-scoring words, discover fancy Stickers, and utilize Glyphs to unleash intriguing combinations. Master the Art of Wordplay in several different Game modes!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 37.7% ★, Word Game 28.2%, Roguelike 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.2%, Deckbuilding 7.4%
Neon Frontline is a single-player roguelike deckbuilder built around tactical combat across three battlefields. Choose a squad, deploy units, issue commands, collect cards and relics, modify your deck, and navigate branching routes through the ruins of a fallen civilization.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 47.6% ★, Deckbuilding 17.1%, Roguelike 10.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.4%
A strategic rogue-lite puzzle game where you collect and place Tetris-style pieces to defeat fantasy villains, unlock characters and upgrades, and build powerful runs. Focused on replayability, quick sessions, and meaningful strategic choices.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 56.9% ★, Deckbuilding 21.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Roguelike 7.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%
A strategy roguelike disguised as a word game. Pick the tiles, and the game automatically finds and scores valid words in your hand. All possible combinations, at once. Shop between rounds, upgrade your tiles, stack cards. No vocabulary needed.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 34.8% ★, Word Game 27.6%, Deckbuilding 14.6%, Roguelike 8.2%, Strategy 6.9%
RogueFlip is a perfect marriage of a logic puzzle with a roguelike deckbuilder! Deduce the right cards to flip to score points, dodging damaging bombs along the way, then power up your run with crazy run-bending trinkets and manipulate your cards with stickers and upgrades.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 57.8% ★, Deckbuilding 12.8%, Strategy 12.2%, Logic 7.7%, Roguelike 7%
Conquer your enemies in this roguelike deckbuilder. Win by upgrading your deck, purchasing powerful items and combining your cards in battle to find overpowered synergies.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 54% ★, Deckbuilding 20.1%, Roguelike 14.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Singleplayer 1%
High Striker, the classic funfair strongman game, reimagined as a roguelike deckbuilder. Strategically place hex tiles, trigger Strikers, and build powerful synergies to achieve the highest score possible.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 45.7% ★, Deckbuilding 27.7%, Roguelike 16.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Race to Ruler is a deck-building roguelike where your cards are your army as you embark on a journey to defeat the ruler of an empire. Draft and train new units, summon epic beings, defeat your rivals, and claim the crown.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 47.1% ★, Deckbuilding 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%, Roguelike 5.8%
From the creators of GoldenEye & TimeSplitters comes Beyond Words the genre-defining fusion of roguelike strategy and word-crafting. Build powerful combos, unlock upgrades, and master a challenge where victory is spelled one letter at a time.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 38.5% ★, Word Game 26.6%, Deckbuilding 16.5%, Roguelike 10.7%, Strategy 5.7%
Forge. Expand. Then roll them all at once. A fast-paced dice deckbuilding roguelike. Arrange ability-based dice on the board and roll them all simultaneously in turn-based battles. Combat and events alike are decided by the roll. Use luck to your advantage and play around expected value.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 50.3% ★, Deckbuilding 21.4%, Roguelike 11%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%, Strategy 6%
A Roguelike card game based on Chinese character rules! Cards are designed according to the meaning of the characters. You can composite stronger character cards, and composite words to enhance their skills. Emergence of unconstrained builds, experience endless fun!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 40.3% ★, Word Game 25.6%, Deckbuilding 16.4%, Roguelike 11.1%, Strategy 5%
A light and fast-paced roguelike deck-builder! Play as a drinker drifting between dreams and reality. With every glass you down, you slip deeper into delightful fantasies. Build your fantasies, keep your alcohol level in the optimal range each round, and chase ever-higher Fantasy Scores!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 54.6% ★, Deckbuilding 23.2%, Roguelike 11.6%, Strategy 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Now fully rebuilt and remastered, Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition is a turn-based dungeon crawler with a twist: instead of controlling the hero you build the dungeon around them.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 76.6% ★, Deckbuilding 11.9%, Roguelike 9.1%, Strategy 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Overdrawn is a roguelike deckbuilder that twists blackjack into a tactical battle. Cards in your hand have hidden values and are revealed when played. Win the hand and deal some damage! This isn’t just luck, your cards have unique abilities which manipulate the game in your favor.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 54.1% ★, Deckbuilding 12%, Roguelike 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Strategy 9.4%
Discover hidden patterns. Build spectacular chains packed with combos. Collect powerful Amulets. Watch scores skyrocket in this brilliantly satisfying roguelike deck-builder where you balance logic and luck your way!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 52.5% ★, Deckbuilding 14.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Roguelike 10.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.2%
Snake Carnival is a high-octane arcade roguelike that reimagines classic snake gameplay. Devour marbles, unleash flashy skills, and craft unique builds with hundreds of relics and items. Unlock distinct snakes & characters, and chase your high score in this nonstop carnival of thrills!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 44.3% ★, Deckbuilding 22.3%, Roguelike 15.9%, Strategy 15.5%, 2D 1%
Roll Five is a thrilling dice-based roguelike. Explore a medieval fantasy map packed with deadly dangers, compose overpowered dice figures, and use your absurd luck to deal shocking damage to monsters until you free Fortuna.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 47.3% ★, Deckbuilding 19.1%, Roguelike 13.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 7%, Strategy 6.6%
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: Roguelike Deckbuilder 53.5% ★, Deckbuilding 23.2%, Roguelike 11.5%, Strategy 9.7%, 2D 1.5%
The roulette roguelike. Roguelette is a tactical, satisfying deckbuilder where you load a cursed wheel with strange balls, bend the odds with powerful effects, and trigger outrageous chain-reaction combos.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 44.1% ★, Deckbuilding 19.1%, Roguelike 14.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.8%
Win by emptying your hand. Abjure is a roguelike deckbuilder where the 2 of Spades reigns supreme — draft cards, stack relics, and outplay every opponent in a strategic twist on the Big 2 card game.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 48.5% ★, Deckbuilding 20.1%, Roguelike 12.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%
Holyland is a roguelike deck-building adventure game that delivers a dark adventure with the thrilling satisfaction of synergies.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 52.3% ★, Deckbuilding 22%, Roguelike 14.2%, Strategy 6.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.4%
SUITE: Automated Card Engine is a poker roguelike game. Run countless workshops, wield broken cards and bizarre Jokers, create dozens of unique poker hands, and earn chips on your way to becoming unbelievably rich.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 49.2% ★, Deckbuilding 20.1%, Roguelike 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Strategy 6%
ATTENTION! HUSK PROTOCOL INITIATED! Prepare to engage in a challenging deck-driven mecha game. Synergise between powerful Husks, utilise a dynamic deck and avoid detection from the city’s mainframe as you infiltrate the machine-driven brutopolis of Aeterna.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 48.3% ★, Deckbuilding 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Roguelike 8.2%, Strategy 7.7%
RogueMath is a roguelike deckbuilder where you construct a deck of mathematical formulas to overcome any objective thrown at you.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 58.4% ★, Deckbuilding 13.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Roguelike 12.2%, Singleplayer 2%
In SeedGod, your mission is to strategically plant in a field full of bugs. Choose the best positions, and you can discover unique plants, capture bugs, find tools, and access areas that will challenge your survival tactics.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 49.6% ★, Deckbuilding 19%, Roguelike 12.9%, Strategy 8%, Turn-Based Strategy 4.4%
ON&OFF is a turn-based strategy game where you manipulate pieces on a grid to trigger explosive chain reactions. Toggle pieces ON to attack, defend, and heal. Read the enemy's telegraphed intents, unleash powerful skills, and master the board to survive!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 58.9% ★, Deckbuilding 11.8%, Roguelike 8.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.4%
ArtifactHunt: Yao is a roguelike strategy deck-building game focused on multiplicative numerical growth. Form specific combinations with Souls, defeat enemies, collect more souls, seek out powerful artifacts, craft your very own unique build. Embark on an adventure filled with endless possibilities!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 49% ★, Deckbuilding 21.6%, Roguelike 15.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.8%
We've fused Card Gaming with the Battle of Total War to create the ultimate multiplayer strategy game. Combine a unique deck from different factions, rally your legions, and charge to defeat all your opponents!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 54.2% ★, Deckbuilding 19%, Roguelike 13.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 4.7%
"Survival Spin" is a deckbuilder game that combines post-apocalypse with Roguelike elements. Encounter zombies, learn survival skills—every choice you make will determine the fate of the survivors. Survive in this unknown world!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 53.1% ★, Deckbuilding 21.5%, Roguelike 12.3%, Strategy 11.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Lost in an enchanted forest, face the Major Arcana in a roguelike deckbuilder journey. Relax, make card combos, navigate shifting paths, and enjoy the groovy jazz. Experiment with different builds and strategies to defeat all 22 Major Arcana and escape.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 55.7% ★, Deckbuilding 20.7%, Roguelike 12.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Through Hell and Back is a timeline based roguelike deckbuilding game. Place your spells on the Timeline to outsmart your enemies. Choose your power ups carefully, trade spells and upgrade the Timeline to unleash devastating combos.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 46.1% ★, Deckbuilding 19.2%, Roguelike 13%, Strategy 8.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.4%
Starchitect puts the builder back into deckbuilders. Draft cards, upgrade your workers, and discover wild synergies to push your rating to the limit. Break the game or somehow fit your dream house onto a 6-block-wide construction site.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 45.1% ★, Deckbuilding 17.7%, Strategy 14%, Roguelike 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.1%
Start with pawns, end with clowns. Build a roster of evolving pieces, stack game-breaking stickers, and chain together absurd high scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 44.6% ★, Deckbuilding 18.6%, Roguelike 12.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%
God of Stock is deck-building roguelike. You play as a trader, use god-blessed cards to trade stocks, manipulate prices, and make money in a chaotic market. Build a unique deck, collect powerful artifacts and treasures, and eventually become the God of Stock.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 42.7% ★, Deckbuilding 21%, Roguelike 14.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.5%
A combination game between turn-based deck-building and poker rogue-like. Strengthen your stats by combining character cards with poker hands.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 37.1% ★, Deckbuilding 20.7%, Roguelike 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.6%
A new roguelike deckbuilder enters the battle. Master the 5 styles, fight rival schools, prepare your counterattacks, stack bonuses and become the Unbroken Iron Pillar.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 52.9% ★, Deckbuilding 21.6%, Roguelike 13.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Dungeon of Theseus is a Rogue-lite deckbuilding auto-battler. Enjoy the fun of deckbuilding without the hassle of playing cards. At the beginning of each round, three characters will be drawn from the deck, and the combat will proceed automatically.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 51.1% ★, Deckbuilding 20.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Roguelike 8.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.1%
Riftstrider is a deckbuilding roguelite with a twist ~ your deck is a grid of orbs. Link elemental orbs to unleash powerful combos while battling foes through ever-shifting rifts in spacetime. Can you confront the anomaly and restore peace to your dimension?
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 46.7% ★, Deckbuilding 20.8%, Roguelike 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Strategy 8.7%
The ultimate team-builder roguelike. Assemble a team of powerful LocoPets, collect game-breaking Charms, and unleash outrageous synergies to defend Tonto Kingdom.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 38.1% ★, Deckbuilding 23.3%, Roguelike 17.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.5%
Demon Suppression Realm is a card based Roguelite game developed and published by Drunken Dog. The main gameplay is card battles based on building decks.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 53.7% ★, Deckbuilding 21.9%, Roguelike 13.5%, Strategy 9.1%, 2D 1.2%