Games like Wardens
If Wardens is your kind of game, the closest matches are Culdcept The First, HeroStory and Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta — 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 Wardens: A turn-based tactical board game with card battler elements. Contains sandbox elements for you to build your own units, craft your own abilities and set your own game rules with a fully integrated editor.
Players who liked Wardens also play
Steam players who put hours into Wardens 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.
Culdcept The First
WHY THIS
Top pick for Wardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
The pinnacle of board game and card game fusion is back.
Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Wardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Ariokan is a highly interactive, strategically-deep competitive card game with a twist: you can create new cards, and use them to build crazy combos around Gods and Legends to break the Meta. No floodgates, no 10-minutes turns, no pay-to-win. You can unlock cards created by other players too!
Chess: The Lost Pieces
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Ranked #4 for Wardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
RPG Chess
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Ranked #5 for Wardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
A turn-based RPG, except it’s also chess! Instead of capturing, your pieces fight in automated battles based on stats, elements and abilities. Build your team in roguelite tower runs, or battle friends or CPU's in 1v1 matches!
Origins TCG
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Ranked #6 for Wardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Outplay opponents, rip packs, and collect tradable cards in a zero pay-to-win competitive TCG that blends the best of Hearthstone, Marvel Snap, Counter Strike and Pokémon.
Stormbound
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Ranked #7 for Wardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Cards and chess collide in Stormbound. Turn-based tactical gameplay, collecting cards and beautiful 2D Art. Level up your army to conquer the ladder.
Chrono CCG
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Wardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Chrono CCG is an indie game from genre veterans where time-traveling agents battle for control of history. Timelines shift mid-match, agents evolve, and deep strategy meets accessible play. For the community, by the community.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wardens at current Steam store prices.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wardens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
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!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wardens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wardens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Majesty Gold HD
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Priced ~50% under Wardens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
The High Definition edition of Majesty Gold contains main game, the Northern Expansion Pack as well as 2 new quests and several other graphics and gameplay updates.Majesty is a Real-time strategy game with indirect control – your heroes have a will of their own!
Bomber Crew
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Priced ~52% under Wardens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!
Turmoil
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Priced ~48% under Wardens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wardens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
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Priced ~60% under Wardens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Wardens.
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.
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!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Wardens
- How much does Wardens cost?
- Wardens is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Wardens have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Wardens supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Wardens?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wardens are Culdcept The First, HeroStory, Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
- Who developed Wardens?
- Wardens was developed by Thorian Games.
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 Wardens.
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