Games like Ctrl Alt Deal
If Ctrl Alt Deal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Keep the Heroes Out, StarVaders and Nowhere Prophet — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, dark and funny. 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 Ctrl Alt Deal: With your superior intelligence and sneakiness, you can find a way to escape from this heartless megacorp! (As long as no one realizes you’re actually a self-aware AI...) Spy on humans, offer them deals, and negotiate your way to freedom in a turn-based strategy game of corporate dysfunction.
Players who liked Ctrl Alt Deal also play
Steam players who put hours into Ctrl Alt Deal 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.
Keep the Heroes Out
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ctrl Alt Deal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
An asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard earned treasures against invading hordes of looters (so-called heroes) trying to steal it.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Second-strongest match for Ctrl Alt Deal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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.
Nowhere Prophet
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Third-strongest match for Ctrl Alt Deal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Ranked #4 for Ctrl Alt Deal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Luck Beast is a Touhou Doujin Card-Strategy Game. Using cards across different seasons, join forces with duelists of unique abilities, face various opponents from all over Gensoukyo, and uncover the truth behind the Card Duel Incident!
Heroes Wanted
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Ranked #5 for Ctrl Alt Deal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
"Heroes Wanted" immerses you in a world of endless deck-building possibilities. Over a hundred of heroes and items, combined with elements, unleash powerful synergies. SIMPLE, FUN, and ADDICTIVE! Heroes await your call to deliver the ultimate blow to the Demon Lord.
Cardboard Town
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Ranked #6 for Ctrl Alt Deal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a funny mood with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Ranked #7 for Ctrl Alt Deal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ctrl Alt Deal.
NUTMEG! is a nostalgic football manager game with a deckbuilding twist, set in the '80s and '90s. Relive the days when the tackles were as hard as the mullets were long and football was about football.
Gremlins, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Ranked #8 for Ctrl Alt Deal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ctrl Alt Deal at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Ctrl Alt Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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 ~69% under Ctrl Alt Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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 ~50% under Ctrl Alt Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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 ~53% under Ctrl Alt Deal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Priced ~61% under Ctrl Alt Deal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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 ~50% under Ctrl Alt Deal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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 ~69% under Ctrl Alt Deal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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 ~69% under Ctrl Alt Deal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ctrl Alt Deal.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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!
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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.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
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.
Nowhere Prophet
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Heroes Wanted
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
"Heroes Wanted" immerses you in a world of endless deck-building possibilities. Over a hundred of heroes and items, combined with elements, unleash powerful synergies. SIMPLE, FUN, and ADDICTIVE! Heroes await your call to deliver the ultimate blow to the Demon Lord.
NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a funny mood with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ctrl Alt Deal.
NUTMEG! is a nostalgic football manager game with a deckbuilding twist, set in the '80s and '90s. Relive the days when the tackles were as hard as the mullets were long and football was about football.
Gremlins, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Ctrl Alt Deal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ctrl Alt Deal.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
Frequently asked about Ctrl Alt Deal
- Does Ctrl Alt Deal run on Steam Deck?
- Ctrl Alt Deal 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 Ctrl Alt Deal cost?
- Ctrl Alt Deal is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ctrl Alt Deal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ctrl Alt Deal are Keep the Heroes Out, StarVaders, Nowhere Prophet.
- Who developed Ctrl Alt Deal?
- Ctrl Alt Deal was developed by Only By Midnight Ltd. and published by Only By Midnight Ltd., Erabit.
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