Games like Cards & Crystals
If Cards & Crystals is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dreamwalker, Insignis and 10,000,000 — 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 Cards & Crystals: Match3 meets Trading Card Game! Collect cards, level up your heroes, and build decks to defeat your foes in this fast-paced puzzle/strategy game.
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Dreamwalker
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Top pick for Cards & Crystals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards & Crystals.
Embark on an enchanting journey in Dreamwalker, a top-down RPG set in a pixel art world. Uncover the secrets of a cursed village as a wandering traveler. Build powerful card decks and engage in tactical combat while navigating a rich narrative filled with twists. Can you lift the village’s shadow?
Insignis
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Second-strongest match for Cards & Crystals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards & Crystals.
Insignis follows the struggles of wizard merchants trying to survive in a newly conquered and economically struggling wizarding city. It's a card game focused on diamonds and spells, requiring speed, precision, and resource management.
10,000,000
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Third-strongest match for Cards & Crystals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cards & Crystals.
10000000: The Dungeon Crawling Matching Game
Erannorth Reborn
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Ranked #4 for Cards & Crystals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards & Crystals.
Erannorth Reborn is a hardcore sandbox Card Game with heavy emphasis on Deck-Building, Character Customization and Moddability. Create unique characters with distinctive attributes, racial/class skills and perks that affect your cards. Adjust and adapt your deck & equipment on-the-fly.
Cardpocalypse
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Ranked #5 for Cards & Crystals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cards & Crystals.
Make friends, play cards, twist the rules, become a Mega Mutant Power Pets master, and try to save the world in this single-player RPG about being a 90's kid.
Slay the Spire
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Ranked #6 for Cards & Crystals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards & Crystals.
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!
Dice Legends
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Ranked #7 for Cards & Crystals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cards & Crystals.
Dice Legends is a roguelike deckbuilder with RPG elements in which you become one of 3 heroes, use unique dice to activate cards, and unleash lethal combos to defeat hordes of enemies. Explore the world, collect epic loot, and uncover the mystery of the Last Human — the mage who changed the world!
Duelyst
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Ranked #8 for Cards & Crystals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards & Crystals.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cards & Crystals at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under Cards & Crystals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cards & Crystals.
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
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Priced ~58% under Cards & Crystals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Cards & Crystals.
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!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under Cards & Crystals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards & Crystals.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under Cards & Crystals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards & Crystals.
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
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Priced ~58% under Cards & Crystals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cards & Crystals.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Cards & Crystals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cards & Crystals.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~58% under Cards & Crystals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cards & Crystals.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~75% under Cards & Crystals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cards & Crystals.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cards & Crystals.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cards & Crystals.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards & Crystals.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cards & Crystals.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards & Crystals.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards & Crystals.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cards & Crystals.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
The Supper
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards & Crystals.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
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Frequently asked about Cards & Crystals
- How much does Cards & Crystals cost?
- Cards & Crystals is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cards & Crystals?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cards & Crystals are Dreamwalker, Insignis, 10,000,000.
- Who developed Cards & Crystals?
- Cards & Crystals was developed by Falko Michael Kötter.
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 Cards & Crystals.
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