Games like Paper Kingdom
If Paper Kingdom is your kind of game, the closest matches are CrafTAE, Stacklands and Throne of Cards — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill 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 Paper Kingdom: Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
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Steam players who put hours into Paper Kingdom 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.
CrafTAE
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Paper Kingdom.
Top pick for Paper Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Kingdom.
Stack cards 🃏 to collect food, craft equipment, build structures and defeat the dungeon ⚔️ in this village builder roguelite. Discover new cards, gather new resources and craft new recipes every run! Combine, survive and thrive!
Stacklands
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paper Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Throne of Cards
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paper Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Build a kingdom from a handful of cards. Stack and combine cards to gather resources, train soldiers, unlock powerful decks, and forge a strategy around rulers, artifacts, and survival.
WitchHand
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paper Kingdom.
Ranked #4 for Paper Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.
Decklings
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paper Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Tame magical creatures called Decklings and lead them into challenging battles in this survival deck-building card game. Explore wild biomes, gather resources, and craft to build your base as you shape your path to become the Deckling Champion.
Stacks:Space!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paper Kingdom.
Ranked #6 for Paper Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!
BOOK OF HOURS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paper Kingdom.
Ranked #7 for Paper Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Castle Cardians
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paper Kingdom.
Ranked #8 for Paper Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Castle Cardians fused card games,roguelike and real time colony defense together. Build your powerful deck, defend the castle and beat invaders.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Paper Kingdom
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Stacklands
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paper Kingdom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paper Kingdom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Paper Kingdom.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Cultist Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paper Kingdom.
Reviewers of Paper Kingdom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paper Kingdom at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Paper Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
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 ~62% under Paper Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Kingdom.
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
Priced ~52% under Paper Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paper Kingdom.
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 ~62% under Paper Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
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 ~62% under Paper Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Kingdom.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Paper Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paper Kingdom.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Paper Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Paper Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Kingdom.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paper Kingdom.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paper Kingdom.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paper Kingdom.
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!
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Kingdom.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Kingdom.
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 Indie with Paper Kingdom.
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!
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Frequently asked about Paper Kingdom
- Does Paper Kingdom run on Steam Deck?
- Paper Kingdom 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 Paper Kingdom cost?
- Paper Kingdom is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paper Kingdom?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paper Kingdom are CrafTAE, Stacklands, Throne of Cards.
- Who developed Paper Kingdom?
- Paper Kingdom was developed by obece.
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 Paper Kingdom.
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