Games like Cardness
If Cardness is your kind of game, the closest matches are Throne of Cards, Stacklands and Factory Planner — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Cardness: Cardness is a card-based management and automation game. Build ingenious systems, optimize your resources, and command troops to face threats. Create autonomous machines and dominate a minimalist, strategic world.
Players who liked Cardness also play
Steam players who put hours into Cardness 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.
Throne of Cards
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Top pick for Cardness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardness.
A survival deckbuilder where you stack cards to raise a kingdom—and lead its armies to war. Feed your people, build and master customizable decks, repel deadly raids, and make hard choices on the road to reclaim your crown.
Stacklands
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Second-strongest match for Cardness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardness.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Factory Planner
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Third-strongest match for Cardness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardness.
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Last Call BBS
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Ranked #4 for Cardness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardness.
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
Timberborn
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Ranked #5 for Cardness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardness.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
The Wandering Village
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Ranked #6 for Cardness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cardness.
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
The Crust
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Ranked #7 for Cardness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cardness.
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Desynced
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Ranked #8 for Cardness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cardness.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardness.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardness.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardness.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardness.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardness.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardness.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardness.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardness.
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Frequently asked about Cardness
- What games are most similar to Cardness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardness are Throne of Cards, Stacklands, Factory Planner.
- Who developed Cardness?
- Cardness was developed by Overscoped.
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 Cardness.
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