Games like IT Startup: Tech Fodder
If IT Startup: Tech Fodder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wildfrost, LONESTAR and Balatro — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fast paced deckbuilding loop, challenging and comedic. 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 IT Startup: Tech Fodder: A dev themed Roguelike Deckbuilder. Play Developer Cards, upgrade them and watch out for burnout! Sabotage your opponents or steal their Developers. Craft a unique deck and squeeze out your employees to win the next Project Battle!
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Wildfrost
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Shares deck building and a challenging mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Top pick for IT Startup: Tech Fodder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
LONESTAR
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Shares a contemplative mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Second-strongest match for IT Startup: Tech Fodder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a funny mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Third-strongest match for IT Startup: Tech Fodder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Slay the Spire
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Shares deck building and a challenging mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Ranked #4 for IT Startup: Tech Fodder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
Trials of Fire
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Shares deck building and a challenging mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Ranked #5 for IT Startup: Tech Fodder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
SpellRogue
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Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Ranked #6 for IT Startup: Tech Fodder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Ranked #7 for IT Startup: Tech Fodder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
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Shares a contemplative mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Ranked #8 for IT Startup: Tech Fodder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
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Slay the Spire
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Shares deck building and a challenging mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Reviewers of IT Startup: Tech Fodder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
Say No! More
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Shares a funny mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Reviewers of IT Startup: Tech Fodder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
SAY NO! MORE is the world’s first NPG (NO!-Playing Game). Play as an intern with a burning desire to say NO! to everything and everyone. Customize your character, say NO! in different styles and languages, clap back at mean colleagues and change the world!
Going Under
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Shares a funny mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Reviewers of IT Startup: Tech Fodder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.
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POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under IT Startup: Tech Fodder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under IT Startup: Tech Fodder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under IT Startup: Tech Fodder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under IT Startup: Tech Fodder on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under IT Startup: Tech Fodder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under IT Startup: Tech Fodder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under IT Startup: Tech Fodder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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.
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 IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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 IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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 with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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. Shares Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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.
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Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a funny mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
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!
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with IT Startup: Tech Fodder.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Frequently asked about IT Startup: Tech Fodder
- How much does IT Startup: Tech Fodder cost?
- IT Startup: Tech Fodder is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to IT Startup: Tech Fodder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside IT Startup: Tech Fodder are Wildfrost, LONESTAR, Balatro.
- Who developed IT Startup: Tech Fodder?
- IT Startup: Tech Fodder was developed by Kupilas Media.
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