Games like Cardlings
If Cardlings is your kind of game, the closest matches are Warbands: Bushido, Wargroove and Armello — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Cardlings: A digital board game where the cards in your hand become units and buildings on the board. With lots of different units and unique abilities for each unit, there are countless strategies to achieve your goals.
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Warbands: Bushido
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Top pick for Cardlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
Warbands:Bushido is a miniatures board game arena with cards, miniatures, dice and beautiful terrains to fight on, with both multiplayer battles boardgamers are used to, and challenging single-player scenarios.
Wargroove
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Second-strongest match for Cardlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!
Armello
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cardlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
Armello is a grim fairy-tale board game come to life, with every match combining deep, tactical card play, rich tabletop strategy and RPG elements. Leverage subterfuge, spells and careful strategy to wrangle control of the game's chaotic odds as you quest for the throne.
Duelyst
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Ranked #4 for Cardlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
The depth of CCG meets the strategy of tabletop gaming in Duelyst! Every choice matters, from your General and deck to positioning on the 9x5 battleboard. Competitive head-to-head turn-based battles at its best!
Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)
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Ranked #5 for Cardlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardlings.
Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.
Chaos Reborn
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Ranked #6 for Cardlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition
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Ranked #7 for Cardlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardlings.
Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Legendary Edition features 20 playable races, including 11 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment.
Gremlins, Inc.
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Ranked #8 for Cardlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cardlings at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Cardlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardlings.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Cardlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardlings.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Cardlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardlings.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Cardlings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Cardlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardlings.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under Cardlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardlings.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under Cardlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardlings.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardlings.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Dota Underlords
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cardlings.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Super Auto Pets
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cardlings.
Build the strongest team of pets and tussle with your friends!
Minion Masters
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
Bloons TD Battles 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
One-armed robber
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardlings.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
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Frequently asked about Cardlings
- How much does Cardlings cost?
- Cardlings is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Cardlings have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cardlings supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Cardlings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardlings are Warbands: Bushido, Wargroove, Armello.
- Who developed Cardlings?
- Cardlings was developed by Clockwork Chilli.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Cardlings.
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