Games like SpellRogue
If SpellRogue is your kind of game, the closest matches are LONESTAR, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles and Dice & Fold — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and cozy. 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 →SpellRogue is a strategy and rpg game, released on Steam in 2025. Moment-to-moment play centers on character variants, countdown spells, deck building, and dice rolling spellcasting. It offers a challenging difficulty and a lengthy campaign. It is a single-player experience suited to longer single sittings. It sells for $9.99 USD on Steam. Steam reviews sit at 89% positive across 1,009 reviews. It carries a Verified rating on Steam Deck. Reviewers characterize the feel as challenging, contemplative, cozy, and whimsical. It comes from developer Guidelight Games, published by Ghost Ship Publishing.
About SpellRogue: 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.
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LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with SpellRogue.
Top pick for SpellRogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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!
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with SpellRogue.
Second-strongest match for SpellRogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Third-strongest match for SpellRogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Ranked #4 for SpellRogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Ranked #5 for SpellRogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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 powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
9 Kings
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with SpellRogue.
Ranked #6 for SpellRogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with SpellRogue.
A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Ranked #7 for SpellRogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Hadean Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with SpellRogue.
Ranked #8 for SpellRogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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!
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Reviewers of SpellRogue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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 deck building and a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Reviewers of SpellRogue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with SpellRogue.
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 whimsical mood with SpellRogue.
Reviewers of SpellRogue 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!).
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SpellRogue at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SpellRogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SpellRogue.
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 ~50% under SpellRogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with SpellRogue.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SpellRogue on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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 ~50% under SpellRogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SpellRogue.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under SpellRogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SpellRogue.
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 ~50% under SpellRogue on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SpellRogue.
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 ~70% under SpellRogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SpellRogue.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SpellRogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with SpellRogue.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 SpellRogue.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with SpellRogue.
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.
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 SpellRogue.
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 and RPG with SpellRogue.
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!
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 SpellRogue.
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 SpellRogue.
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.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with SpellRogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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!
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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 powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
9 Kings
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with SpellRogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with SpellRogue.
A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with SpellRogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Hadean Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with SpellRogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpellRogue.
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!
Frequently asked about SpellRogue
- Is SpellRogue verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SpellRogue 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 SpellRogue cost?
- SpellRogue is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SpellRogue?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SpellRogue are LONESTAR, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, Dice & Fold.
- Who developed SpellRogue?
- SpellRogue was developed by Guidelight Games and published by Ghost Ship Publishing.
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