Games like Wildfrost
If Wildfrost is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monster Train, SpellRogue and Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful artstyle and music, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Wildfrost is a 2023 strategy indie game that blends roguelike deckbuilding with turn-based tactical combat. Players collect cards, build custom decks, and engage in encounters across a frozen setting where both card selection and unit positioning shape outcomes. Reviewers highlight that tactical positioning matters alongside deck construction, creating layered strategic decisions. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, with visual presentation and musical score drawing particular attention. The game offers massive content suitable for short play sessions while maintaining hard difficulty throughout. Priced at $11.99 USD and verified for Steam Deck, Wildfrost holds a 92% positive rating from over 5,200 Steam reviews, with reviewers noting its beautiful artstyle and music as key elements of the package.
About Wildfrost: Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
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Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Top pick for Wildfrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Wildfrost.
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.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Second-strongest match for Wildfrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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.
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildfrost.
Third-strongest match for Wildfrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Wildfrost.
Ranked #4 for Wildfrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildfrost.
Ranked #5 for Wildfrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Wildfrost.
Ranked #6 for Wildfrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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.
Hadean Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Ranked #7 for Wildfrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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!
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Ranked #8 for Wildfrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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!
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning, deck building and an immersive mood with Wildfrost.
Reviewers of Wildfrost cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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 tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Reviewers of Wildfrost cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Wildfrost.
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.
Slice & Dice
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Reviewers of Wildfrost cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Tactical dice-rolling roguelike combat. Take control of 5 heroes, each with their own unique dice. Fight your way through 20 levels of monsters and try to take on the final boss. If you lose a single fight you have to start over so be careful (and lucky!).
DICEOMANCER
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Wildfrost.
Reviewers of Wildfrost cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.
Cobalt Core
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildfrost.
Reviewers of Wildfrost cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
Pirates Outlaws
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildfrost.
Reviewers of Wildfrost cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Roguebook
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildfrost.
Reviewers of Wildfrost cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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!
Dream Quest
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Reviewers of Wildfrost cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Play cards! Kill monsters! Level Up! Dream Quest is a roguelike deckbuilding game inspired by the likes of Ascension, Magic: the Gathering, and Shandalar. Explore randomly generated levels as one of 13 classes in short, 30 minute, sessions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wildfrost at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Wildfrost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wildfrost.
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 ~58% under Wildfrost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wildfrost.
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
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning, deck building and an immersive mood with Wildfrost.
Priced ~48% under Wildfrost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Wildfrost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Wildfrost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wildfrost.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Wildfrost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wildfrost.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Wildfrost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wildfrost.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Wildfrost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wildfrost.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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!
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 Wildfrost.
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 Wildfrost.
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!
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Wildfrost.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Paladins®
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Wildfrost.
Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!
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 Wildfrost.
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.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wildfrost.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Wildfrost.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildfrost.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Wildfrost.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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.
Hadean Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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!
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wildfrost.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildfrost.
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 Wildfrost
- Is Wildfrost verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Wildfrost 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 Wildfrost cost?
- Wildfrost is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wildfrost?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wildfrost are Monster Train, SpellRogue, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles.
- Who developed Wildfrost?
- Wildfrost was developed by Deadpan Games, Gaziter and published by Chucklefish.
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