Games like Paperback Adventures
If Paperback Adventures is your kind of game, the closest matches are Desert Revenant, Hell Shuffle and The Looking Glass Wars: House of Cards — 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 Paperback Adventures: Combine word wizardry and superior strategy in this roguelike deckbuilding adventure. Craft a unique deck of letter cards throughout each journey, collect rewards from your victories, and each adventure unlocks new cards.
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Desert Revenant
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paperback Adventures.
Top pick for Paperback Adventures fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
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.
Hell Shuffle
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Paperback Adventures.
Second-strongest match for Paperback Adventures fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
A driving mix of rogue-like card deckbuilder and turn-based strategic combat. Join one of the three factions, craft a unique deck, set up a squad, use a variety of talents, trinkets, items, and a perk tree to wipe out the debauched angelic Protectors again and again.
The Looking Glass Wars: House of Cards
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paperback Adventures fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
We built a solitaire game around a darker version of Alice in Wonderland that you won't put down. Draw cards, build runs and sets across 140+ handcrafted quests. It's the kind of game you play for one more quest at midnight.
The Simulacrum
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Paperback Adventures.
Ranked #4 for Paperback Adventures fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
The Simulacrum is a deckbuilder with procedurally generated cards. Obtain cards through a roguelite mode, acquire a large collection and challenge the hidden guardians of The Simulacrum.
Epic Auto Towers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paperback Adventures.
Ranked #5 for Paperback Adventures fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
Epic Auto Towers is a turn-based strategy game combining elements of autobattler, deckbuilder and roguelike. Purchase uncommon and rare Towers and build the strongest combo to withstand the monster assault! Discover unusual new Tower combinations as you come back for more.
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Paperback Adventures.
Ranked #6 for Paperback Adventures fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Ratropolis
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Paperback Adventures.
Ranked #7 for Paperback Adventures fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
卡牌缔造者-CardMaker
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Paperback Adventures.
Ranked #8 for Paperback Adventures fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Paperback Adventures.
This is a Rogue + Hearthstone like card game, but also a card making tool, you can play in addition to the official cards, creative workshop players a variety of card DIY.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Paperback Adventures
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Scrabble
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paperback Adventures.
Reviewers of Paperback Adventures cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Casual with Paperback Adventures.
The fantastically fun crossword game is now specially designed for your PC or Mac. Build words using letter tiles and enjoy quick, easy-to-learn controls and fantastic features. Play solo, compete with the computer, or challenge up to three friends in a Hot Seat challenge. Choose from a variety of game styles.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Paperback Adventures.
Reviewers of Paperback Adventures cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
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
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Paperback Adventures.
Reviewers of Paperback Adventures cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
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...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paperback Adventures at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Paperback Adventures on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paperback Adventures.
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 ~56% under Paperback Adventures on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paperback Adventures.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Paperback Adventures.
Priced ~44% under Paperback Adventures on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Paperback Adventures on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
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 ~56% under Paperback Adventures on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paperback Adventures.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Paperback Adventures on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paperback Adventures.
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 ~56% under Paperback Adventures on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Paperback Adventures.
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 ~73% under Paperback Adventures on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paperback Adventures.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paperback Adventures.
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 and Casual with Paperback Adventures.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paperback Adventures.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paperback Adventures.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paperback Adventures.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paperback Adventures.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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More from Tim Fowers
Other recommendable Steam games by Tim Fowers, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Now Boarding
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Paperback Adventures.
Another title from Tim Fowers, the studio behind Paperback Adventures. Shares Casual with Paperback Adventures.
Now Boarding is an action-tycoon game focused on running an airport. Create calm from chaos in a busy airport. Get your passengers to the correct destination before they freak out!!
Stepwell
WHY THIS
Another title from Tim Fowers, the studio behind Paperback Adventures. Shares Indie with Paperback Adventures.
Stepwell is a microscopic dimension where you build optical illusions that defy the laws of physics. Snap together impossible geometry to create twisting, mind-bending paths for your Quarks. Relax in a vibrant, zen-like puzzle, and watch your creations come alive as a hypnotic, bustling colony.
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Frequently asked about Paperback Adventures
- Does Paperback Adventures run on Steam Deck?
- Paperback Adventures is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Paperback Adventures cost?
- Paperback Adventures is listed on Steam at 11.24 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paperback Adventures?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paperback Adventures are Desert Revenant, Hell Shuffle, The Looking Glass Wars: House of Cards.
- Who developed Paperback Adventures?
- Paperback Adventures was developed by Tim Fowers, Jeff Krause, Skye Larsen and published by Fowers Games.
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