Games like Cardboard Ground
If Cardboard Ground is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grottesco Absurdus, GLAD VALAKAS SIMULATOR and McPixel — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its humor keeps players hooked, comedic and dark. 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Cardboard Ground also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Grottesco Absurdus
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cardboard Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
Grottesco Absurdus is a bright transference crossover, absurd and chaotic. A vibrant mixture of childhood fantasies and fears becomes an unpredictable story. It's a fair deal! Join us!
GLAD VALAKAS SIMULATOR
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and a comedic mood with Cardboard Ground.
Second-strongest match for Cardboard Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
GLAD VALAKAS SIMULATOR is a game about the most famous Russian streamer. You need to live 10 days in the image for the protagonist of the game.
McPixel
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Cardboard Ground.
Third-strongest match for Cardboard Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges to prevent stuff from blowing up. You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!
The Franz Kafka Videogame
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cardboard Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
Deponia
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Cardboard Ground.
Ranked #5 for Cardboard Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
Chaos on Deponia
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and a comedic mood with Cardboard Ground.
Ranked #6 for Cardboard Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.
Little Inferno
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cardboard Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.
Four Last Things
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cardboard Ground.
Ranked #8 for Cardboard Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cardboard Ground at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cardboard Ground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cardboard Ground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cardboard Ground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cardboard Ground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cardboard Ground on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cardboard Ground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cardboard Ground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cardboard Ground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Ground.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Franz Kafka Videogame
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
Deponia
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Cardboard Ground.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
Little Inferno
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.
Four Last Things
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cardboard Ground.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Ground.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
Frequently asked about Cardboard Ground
- How much does Cardboard Ground cost?
- Cardboard Ground is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cardboard Ground?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardboard Ground are Grottesco Absurdus, GLAD VALAKAS SIMULATOR, McPixel.
- Who developed Cardboard Ground?
- Cardboard Ground was developed by Matt Close.
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