Games like Desert Revenant
If Desert Revenant is your kind of game, the closest matches are 魔女黏糊笔记, Knights in Tight Spaces and Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 Desert Revenant: Desert Revenant is a strategic Roguelike Deck Building RPG packing a huge variety of cards to do battle with. Think about your every move and make careful decisions in hand-crafted encounters as you cut deals with Jinn and humans alike in your adventures amongst the dunes of Elmyr.
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魔女黏糊笔记
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Desert Revenant.
Top pick for Desert Revenant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desert Revenant.
这是一款结合卡牌与骰子的roguelike游戏，通过卡组构筑，在战斗中拼点尽可能无损耗地击败敌人。 魔女缪可苏带着她的笔记来到了一个魔物洞窟面前，你将在这里遇到各种各样的魔物，以及魔物娘！将她们击败，或是被她们击败吧！
Knights in Tight Spaces
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Desert Revenant.
Second-strongest match for Desert Revenant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desert Revenant.
Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Revenant.
Third-strongest match for Desert Revenant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desert Revenant.
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!
Souls of White Star
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Revenant.
Ranked #4 for Desert Revenant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desert Revenant.
Souls of White Star is a sci-fi turn-based card wargame Roguelike strategy game. The different design of [double-sided technology moving cards] and [bandwidth draw cost] will test your judgment and decision more!
Deck of Souls
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Revenant.
Ranked #5 for Desert Revenant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Desert Revenant.
Roguelite deck-building meets souls-like. Break out of an infinite loop to close the hell gates, turn enemies into cards, and build your own omnipotent Deck of Souls! Rolls included.
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desert Revenant.
Ranked #6 for Desert Revenant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Desert Revenant.
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.
Gordian Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desert Revenant.
Ranked #7 for Desert Revenant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desert Revenant.
An epic deckbuilding RPG inspired by old-school classics like Ultima and D&D, using modern gaming concepts like roguelite elements and turnbased strategic combat. Lead and nurture parties of heroes. Forge bonds and discover new skills among them. Guide them to unravel the curses laid upon the lands.
Black Book
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Revenant.
Ranked #8 for Desert Revenant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desert Revenant.
“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desert Revenant.
Reviewers of Desert Revenant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desert Revenant.
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!
Heroes of Might & Magic V
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desert Revenant.
Reviewers of Desert Revenant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Desert Revenant.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.
Child of Light
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Revenant.
Reviewers of Desert Revenant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Desert Revenant.
Aurora, a young girl from 1895 Austria, awakens on the lost fairytale continent of Lemuria. To return home she must fight against the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night, who have stolen the sun, the moon and the stars. At stake is not only Lemuria, but Aurora’s true destiny.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desert Revenant at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desert Revenant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desert Revenant.
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 Desert Revenant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Desert Revenant.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Desert Revenant on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Desert Revenant.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Desert Revenant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desert Revenant.
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 Desert Revenant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desert Revenant.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desert Revenant.
Priced ~58% under Desert Revenant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desert Revenant.
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 Desert Revenant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desert Revenant.
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 Desert Revenant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desert Revenant.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desert Revenant.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desert Revenant.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desert Revenant.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Desert Revenant.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desert Revenant.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Desert Revenant.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desert Revenant.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Desert Revenant
- How much does Desert Revenant cost?
- Desert Revenant is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desert Revenant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desert Revenant are 魔女黏糊笔记, Knights in Tight Spaces, Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend.
- Who developed Desert Revenant?
- Desert Revenant was developed by Kreationware and published by Kreationware, Hawthorn Games.
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