Games like Railroads & Catacombs
If Railroads & Catacombs is your kind of game, the closest matches are LONESTAR, Trials of Fire and Railroads & Catacombs: Prologue — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its craft overpowered card combos, challenging and contemplative. 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 Railroads & Catacombs: In this exciting Card Building Roguelike game you create your cards from scratch adding different upgrades. Build your train, explore the Labyrinth and survive. Discover infinite synergies. How far will you go?
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LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Top pick for Railroads & Catacombs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Second-strongest match for Railroads & Catacombs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Railroads & Catacombs: Prologue
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Railroads & Catacombs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
Start your training in Railroads & Catacombs! Learn how to build your cards in the most effective way. Test your deck against the first boss and master your strategy for the full game.
Cave Crusade
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Railroads & Catacombs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Ranked #5 for Railroads & Catacombs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Railroads & Catacombs.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Ranked #6 for Railroads & Catacombs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Obsidian Prince
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Ranked #7 for Railroads & Catacombs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
Fight through dungeons in a tactical, turn-based roguelike where choices have real consequences. Craft your backstory & inspiration decks & combine classes, skills & gear to create truly powerful heroes. Explore & rebuild Emalon in the campaign or top the highscore in a challenging roguelike mode.
Castle Morihisa
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Ranked #8 for Railroads & Catacombs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
"Castle Morihisa" is a roguelike featuring strategic deckbuilder. You need to build up your deck through constant battles, acquire powerful talents, and wield the power of the Fallen Heroes to unveil the truth behind the rebellion in Castle Morihisa.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Reviewers of Railroads & Catacombs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
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!
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Reviewers of Railroads & Catacombs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Reviewers of Railroads & Catacombs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Reviewers of Railroads & Catacombs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Railroads & Catacombs.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Railroads & Catacombs at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Railroads & Catacombs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
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 ~64% under Railroads & Catacombs on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Railroads & Catacombs.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Railroads & Catacombs on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Railroads & Catacombs.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Railroads & Catacombs on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Railroads & Catacombs.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Priced ~55% under Railroads & Catacombs on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Railroads & Catacombs on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Railroads & Catacombs on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
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 ~64% under Railroads & Catacombs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Railroads & Catacombs.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Railroads & Catacombs.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
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 Railroads & Catacombs.
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.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Railroads & Catacombs.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Railroads & Catacombs.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Super Auto Pets
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Railroads & Catacombs.
Build the strongest team of pets and tussle with your friends!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railroads & Catacombs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Railroads & Catacombs.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Frequently asked about Railroads & Catacombs
- Is Railroads & Catacombs verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Railroads & Catacombs is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Railroads & Catacombs cost?
- Railroads & Catacombs is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Railroads & Catacombs?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Railroads & Catacombs are LONESTAR, Trials of Fire, Railroads & Catacombs: Prologue.
- Who developed Railroads & Catacombs?
- Railroads & Catacombs was developed by MadRails and published by IndieArk.
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