Games like Shogun Showdown
If Shogun Showdown is your kind of game, the closest matches are LONESTAR, Wildfrost and Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles — 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 →Shogun Showdown is a turn-based tactical roguelite developed by Roboatino and published by Goblinz Publishing and Gamirror Games, released in 2024 at 14.99 USD. Players manage tile-based movement, character-specific special moves with cooldowns, and strategic positioning effects while collecting relics against procedural enemy spawns. Reviewers note the simple mechanics hide deep strategic possibilities, with each character offering a unique special move to master. The pixel-art and animations have satisfying impact according to players, who describe the tile-based movement as fast-paced despite the turn-based format. Weapon upgrades require planning multiple turns ahead, creating a contemplative yet challenging experience. Players also describe the aesthetic as atmospheric and retro. The game runs verified on Steam Deck and offers a long solo session for those seeking a demanding strategic experience, holding a 97% positive rating from 3371 Steam reviews.
About Shogun Showdown: Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!
Players who liked Shogun Showdown also play
Steam players who put hours into Shogun Showdown 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.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares relic collection and an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Top pick for Shogun Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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!
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Second-strongest match for Shogun Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Third-strongest match for Shogun Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Ranked #4 for Shogun Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shogun Showdown.
Ranked #5 for Shogun Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
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.
Backpack Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shogun Showdown.
Ranked #6 for Shogun Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Ranked #7 for Shogun Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon is a turn-based Roguelike card game where you assume the role of a Shu general. Explore dungeons, gather relics, and amass a collection of cards. In each round, you can assemble a unique combination of cards and treasures to defeat your enemies and rewrite history!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shogun Showdown.
Ranked #8 for Shogun Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Shogun Showdown
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Fights in Tight Spaces
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shogun Showdown.
Reviewers of Shogun Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shogun Showdown.
Reviewers of Shogun Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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!
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Reviewers of Shogun Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shogun Showdown.
Reviewers of Shogun Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Knights in Tight Spaces
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shogun Showdown.
Reviewers of Shogun Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
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.
Cobalt Core
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Reviewers of Shogun Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shogun Showdown.
Reviewers of Shogun Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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.
Monster Train 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Reviewers of Shogun Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shogun Showdown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shogun Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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 Shogun Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Shogun Showdown.
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 Shogun Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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 Shogun Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shogun Showdown.
Priced ~58% under Shogun Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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 Shogun Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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 Shogun Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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 Shogun Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shogun Showdown.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shogun Showdown.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shogun Showdown.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shogun Showdown.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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 Shogun Showdown.
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 Shogun Showdown.
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!
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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 relic collection and an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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!
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shogun Showdown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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.
Backpack Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shogun Showdown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shogun Showdown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Frequently asked about Shogun Showdown
- Is Shogun Showdown verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shogun Showdown 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 Shogun Showdown cost?
- Shogun Showdown is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shogun Showdown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shogun Showdown are LONESTAR, Wildfrost, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles.
- Who developed Shogun Showdown?
- Shogun Showdown was developed by Roboatino and published by Goblinz Publishing, Gamirror Games.
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