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Games like Racine

If Racine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Entropy Architects, Underquest and Rapture Recovery Squad — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its parry timing feels satisfying, atmospheric and challenging. 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.

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About Racine: Racine is an Autobattler Strategy Roguelike. Use your cards to increase your heroes stats or cast powerful spells. Find some artifacts and new cards to develop your own play style.

2023StrategyRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Dark Root Gardeners, Goblinz Studio
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Players who liked Racine also play

Steam players who put hours into Racine 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.

  1. Entropy Architects

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Racine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Racine.

    "With each layer's laws collapsing, every decision reforges the world!" Will you become a desperate gambler, or emerge as a calculating tactician? Every choice remolds your fate – and sometimes, you'll need a dash of luck to tip the scales. Forge your ultimate build and conquer the impossible!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Underquest

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Racine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Fantasy story-driven roguelite with chaotic inventory management. Combine items in real-time to create powerful skills and use them in fast-paced combat. Explore randomly generated dungeons in the Underkingdom and discover the secrets of its inhabitants!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Rapture Recovery Squad

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Racine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Racine.

    Rapture Recovery Squad is a dungeon crawling, deck building auto-battler. Map out the depths beneath humanity's last refuge and build up your roster of psionically charged fighters to prevent the end of the world.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Hadean Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Racine.

    Ranked #4 for Racine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!

    2023StrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Luck be a Landlord

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Racine.

    Ranked #5 for Racine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Necroking

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Racine.

    Ranked #6 for Racine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Necroking is a turn-based tactics roguelite with vast deckbuilding. You play as a Master of Necromancy. Build your skulls deck, raise skeletons and other scum to defeat settlements desecrated by life.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure1.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Robothorium

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Racine.

    Ranked #7 for Racine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Racine.

    Robothorium is a cyberpunk dungeon crawler with turn-based fights, where all your choices will have a direct impact on your revolution against Humankind. Deep Strategy, Crafting, Party Based management, Talents and so much more in this roguelike!

    2019StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Godslayer Arena

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Racine.

    Ranked #8 for Racine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Godslayer Arena is a roguelike fusion of autobattlers and action-rpgs. Combat is performed completely automatically. Understanding complex interactions between the spells, gems, and items you draft will be key to success. Break the game. Become overpowered.

    2025ActionStrategyEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Racine at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Racine on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Racine.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Racine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Racine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Racine on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Racine.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Racine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Racine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?

    2010Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Racine on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Racine.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Nubby's Number Factory

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Racine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.

    2025Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Racine.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Racine.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Racine.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Racine.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Hadean Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Racine.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!

    2023StrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Luck be a Landlord

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Racine.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Necroking

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Racine.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Racine.

    Necroking is a turn-based tactics roguelite with vast deckbuilding. You play as a Master of Necromancy. Build your skulls deck, raise skeletons and other scum to defeat settlements desecrated by life.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure1.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Racine

Does Racine run on Steam Deck?
Racine 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 Racine cost?
Racine is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Racine?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Racine are Entropy Architects, Underquest, Rapture Recovery Squad.
Who developed Racine?
Racine was developed by Dark Root Gardeners, Goblinz Studio and published by Goblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited.

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 Racine.

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