Games like Takara Cards
If Takara Cards is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Reigns, Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾 and INFERIUS — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its card search refines deckbuilding, atmospheric 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 Takara Cards: Takara Cards is a unique tactical deck-builder RPG about chasing space dragons in a sci-fi fantasy universe. Create your deck as you explore sectors, fighting your way in deep puzzly combat. Every decision you make affects your Ship and Character: Each new adventure offers new surprises!

Players who liked Takara Cards also play
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Rogue Reigns
WHY THIS
Top pick for Takara Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
Rogue Reigns is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about trust and sacrifice. Lead selfish antiheroes through a world where death is no more, and something still hunts them. Build synergies that bind them or rivalries that break them. Nobody dies, some are sacrificed, but everybody is condemned.
Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Takara Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
Choose your mech, customize your loadout, and build your perfect deck. Experiment with cards to find powerful combinations as you enjoy the tactical combat and deckbuilding in this roguelike adventure!
INFERIUS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Takara Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
A blend of Dante’s Inferno and Lovecraftian horror. A first-person roguelike deckbuilder using the Major Arcana Tarot Cards to strategize against the horrors lurking in the darkness. Build the perfect deck, challenge each ruler of the 9 levels of hell, die often... and repeat.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Takara Cards.
Ranked #4 for Takara Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a hypnotic mood with Takara Cards.
Ranked #5 for Takara Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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.
Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Takara Cards.
Ranked #6 for Takara Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Takara Cards.
Ranked #7 for Takara Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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!
Rogue Voltage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Takara Cards.
Ranked #8 for Takara Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Takara Cards
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NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Takara Cards.
Reviewers of Takara Cards cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
NEXT JUMP is a turn-based, tactics Shoot 'em up. Do space-jumps on procedurally generated boards and chase the vicious Dragons who stole all the stock of Beverage from the Galaxy!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Takara Cards.
Reviewers of Takara Cards cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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
Reviewers of Takara Cards cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Takara Cards.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization with Takara Cards.
Reviewers of Takara Cards cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Takara Cards at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Takara Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Takara Cards.
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 ~67% under Takara Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Takara Cards.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Takara Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Takara Cards.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Takara Cards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Takara Cards.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Takara Cards.
Priced ~58% under Takara Cards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Takara Cards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Takara Cards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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 ~67% under Takara Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Takara Cards.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Takara Cards.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Takara Cards.
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.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Takara Cards.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Takara Cards.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Takara Cards.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Takara Cards.
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.
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!
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 and Adventure with Takara Cards.
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.
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More from Post Mortem Pixels
Other recommendable Steam games by Post Mortem Pixels, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Talk to Strangers
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Takara Cards.
Another title from Post Mortem Pixels, the studio behind Takara Cards. Shares Indie with Takara Cards.
Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.
NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Takara Cards.
Another title from Post Mortem Pixels, the studio behind Takara Cards. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
NEXT JUMP is a turn-based, tactics Shoot 'em up. Do space-jumps on procedurally generated boards and chase the vicious Dragons who stole all the stock of Beverage from the Galaxy!
Takara Cards: Academy
WHY THIS
Another title from Post Mortem Pixels, the studio behind Takara Cards. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
Takara Cards: Academy is a free Prologue version of Takara Cards, a unique tactical deck-builder RPG. Chase space dragons and create your deck as you explore sectors, fighting your way in deep puzzly combat. Join the Federation Academy!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Takara Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a hypnotic mood with Takara Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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.
Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Takara Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Takara Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
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!
Rogue Voltage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Takara Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Takara Cards.
The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.
Frequently asked about Takara Cards
- Is Takara Cards verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Takara Cards 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 Takara Cards cost?
- Takara Cards is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Takara Cards?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Takara Cards are Rogue Reigns, Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾, INFERIUS.
- Who developed Takara Cards?
- Takara Cards was developed by Post Mortem Pixels and published by GrabTheGames.
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 Takara Cards.
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