Games like Nitro Kid
If Nitro Kid is your kind of game, the closest matches are Roguebook, Fights in Tight Spaces and Banners of Ruin — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its explosive combo potential, atmospheric and hypnotic. 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 Nitro Kid: Synthwave roguelike deckbuilder set in the neon 80's. Pick your agent. Build your deck. Hit card combos and fight through the floors of INFINITY tower. Featuring 30+ fresh Synthwave tracks by LudoWic, Tonebox and Jules Reves.
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Steam players who put hours into Nitro Kid 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.
Roguebook
WHY THIS
Shares card synergy combos and an atmospheric mood with Nitro Kid.
Top pick for Nitro Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
Fights in Tight Spaces
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Nitro Kid.
Second-strongest match for Nitro Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nitro Kid.
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Nitro Kid.
Third-strongest match for Nitro Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nitro Kid.
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.
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nitro Kid.
Ranked #4 for Nitro Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
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.
Death Roads: Tournament
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Nitro Kid.
Ranked #5 for Nitro Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Combine deadly racing, deckbuilding, and roguelite style to get car battles unlike anything before! Choose a driver, car, weapons, and sponsors to overcome tactical encounters. Adapt to an ever-changing race to come out on top and earn entry into the last safe haven on the Divided States of America.
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Nitro Kid.
Ranked #6 for Nitro Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Ultimate Hero
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Nitro Kid.
Ranked #7 for Nitro Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Ultimate Hero is a rogue-lite deckbuilder with a twist of dice. Master and merge unique skills, counter enemies, and unleash devastating ultimates where they hurt the most! Challenge the finest martial artists in the realm, and defy the odds to claim the title of the Ultimate Hero.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Nitro Kid.
Ranked #8 for Nitro Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
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.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an immersive mood with Nitro Kid.
Reviewers of Nitro Kid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
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!
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nitro Kid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
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.
Fights in Tight Spaces
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Nitro Kid.
Reviewers of Nitro Kid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Nitro Kid.
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nitro Kid at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Nitro Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nitro Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Nitro Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Nitro Kid on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nitro Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nitro Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Nitro Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
"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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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 Nitro Kid.
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!
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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 Nitro Kid.
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.
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Frequently asked about Nitro Kid
- Is Nitro Kid verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Nitro Kid 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 Nitro Kid cost?
- Nitro Kid is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nitro Kid?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nitro Kid are Roguebook, Fights in Tight Spaces, Banners of Ruin.
- Who developed Nitro Kid?
- Nitro Kid was developed by Wildboy Studios and published by tinyBuild.
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