Games like Northwind
If Northwind is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abjure, Fortunato and Handmancers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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 Northwind: Northwind is a monster-hunting roguelite deckbuilder with a tug-of-war combat twist, card crafting, and a mana management system inspired by Magic: The Gathering.
Players who liked Northwind also play
Steam players who put hours into Northwind 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.
Abjure
WHY THIS
Top pick for Northwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
Win by emptying your hand. Abjure is a roguelike deckbuilder where the 2 of Spades reigns supreme — draft cards, stack relics, and outplay every opponent in a strategic twist on the Big 2 card game.
Fortunato
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Northwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Northwind.
Draw a pair of aces, use them as poker hands or to eliminate your opponents? A poker roguelike battle card game. Build a deck of jokers, defeat bosses, modify cards, and conquer challenges across the ever-changing islands. At the table of four, win by chips or remaining health, your call...
Handmancers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Northwind.
Third-strongest match for Northwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
Handmancers is a Rock, Paper, Scissors Roguelite deckbuilder with a first-person twist where clear tactical choices meet deck-building depth. Craft your deck, enhance your cards, equip tricky artifacts and face powerful enemies in strategic fights
Into The Grid
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Northwind.
Ranked #4 for Northwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
Become a master hacker in this Cyberpunk Roguelike Deckbuilder. Explore the dangers of cyberspace and fight evil corporations. Build and upgrade a deck of powerful programs. Unlock perks and skills, and unleash digital hell on your enemies. Dive Into The Grid!
Become the Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Northwind.
Ranked #5 for Northwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
Become the Moon is a challenging, deckbuilding auto battler. Choose from 10 unique characters, each with their own distinct playstyles. Assemble a team of powerful minions & cast cosmic spells where every run takes you one step closer to the moon.
Super Fantasy Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Northwind.
Ranked #6 for Northwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Northwind.
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Dream of Corpse Lady
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Northwind.
Ranked #7 for Northwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
Cards, battle! Someone woke up the sleeping Corpse Lady... Perhaps, the world needs to pay a price for the awakening... In this game, you will play the role of the awakened Corpse Lady, try various strange construction combinations, discover powerful opponents, and then knock them all down!
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Northwind.
Ranked #8 for Northwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Northwind
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Northwind.
Reviewers of Northwind cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
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!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Northwind.
Reviewers of Northwind cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Northwind.
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.
Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Northwind.
Reviewers of Northwind cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Northwind.
Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!
Magic: The Gathering Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Northwind.
Reviewers of Northwind cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Northwind.
Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Northwind at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Northwind on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Northwind.
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 ~67% under Northwind on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Northwind.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Northwind on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Northwind.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Northwind on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Northwind.
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 ~50% under Northwind on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Northwind.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Northwind.
Priced ~58% under Northwind on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
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 ~47% under Northwind on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
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 ~67% under Northwind on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northwind.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Northwind.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Northwind.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Northwind.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Northwind.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Northwind.
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Frequently asked about Northwind
- Does Northwind run on Steam Deck?
- Northwind is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Northwind cost?
- Northwind is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Northwind?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Northwind are Abjure, Fortunato, Handmancers.
- Who developed Northwind?
- Northwind was developed by Barking Kitten Interactive.
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