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Games like Tetra Tactics

If Tetra Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Circadian Dice, StarVaders and Monster Train — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive 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.

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About Tetra Tactics: Strategize, collect, upgrade. Tetra Tactics is a roguelite deckbuilder inspired by Triple Triad, featuring deep meta-progression and endless replayability. Outwit opponents on a 4x4 tactical grid, traverse branching maps, augment your cards, and combine powerful abilities to build the ultimate deck.

2024StrategyIndie14.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Jabari Alii, Adrian Marple, manadream
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Capture mechanics create wild swing momentsCards have dual sided stats for dynamic positioningDeep strategic depth without overwhelming complexityChallengingCompetitiveContemplative

Players who liked Tetra Tactics also play

Steam players who put hours into Tetra Tactics 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. Circadian Dice

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Top pick for Tetra Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tetra Tactics.

    Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!

    2022Strategy4.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. StarVaders

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Second-strongest match for Tetra Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Monster Train

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Third-strongest match for Tetra Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tetra Tactics.

    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.

    2020Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Banners of Ruin

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Tetra Tactics.

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

    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.

    2021StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Wildfrost

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Ranked #5 for Tetra Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

    2023StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Ranked #6 for Tetra Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    Welcome to Eientei, combine multiple colors of mana to build your ideal deck, duel with gensokyo girls, and chase back the mysterious moon treasure. Also, enjoy the unpredictable Roguelike with fantasy Danmaku!

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. LONESTAR

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Ranked #7 for Tetra Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Ranked #8 for Tetra Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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.

    2023StrategyIndieCasual24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tetra Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tetra Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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 ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Tetra Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

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

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Priced ~58% under Tetra Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Tetra Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tetra Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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 ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Tetra Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Tetra Tactics.

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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.

    2023FreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dota Underlords

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Tetra Tactics.

    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.

    2019StrategyFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Tetra Tactics.

    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!

    2012ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Clicker Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Super Auto Pets

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Tetra Tactics.

    Build the strongest team of pets and tussle with your friends!

    2021StrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. StarVaders

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Wildfrost

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

    2023StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. LONESTAR

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Tetra Tactics.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tetra Tactics.

    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!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Tetra Tactics

How much does Tetra Tactics cost?
Tetra Tactics is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Tetra Tactics?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tetra Tactics are Circadian Dice, StarVaders, Monster Train.
Who developed Tetra Tactics?
Tetra Tactics was developed by Jabari Alii, Adrian Marple, manadream and published by indie.io.

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 Tetra Tactics.

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