Games like Heretic's Fork
If Heretic's Fork is your kind of game, the closest matches are HF: Probation, Lost For Swords and Wildfrost — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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 →Heretic's Fork is a challenging tower defense roguelite from developer 9FingerGames, published by Ravenage Games, that incorporates deck-building mechanics into its strategic formula. Players construct hellish tower defenses using card-fusion and deck-building systems that procedurally generate encounters across multiple runs. The game tasks players with managing infernal defenses against waves of underworld adversaries through tactical positioning and careful card selection. Reviewers highlight the variety of cards and deck-building options as compelling hooks that reward experimentation and adaptation. Players describe the experience as immersive, with its challenging gameplay encouraging repeated engagement across medium-length sessions. The game costs $4.99 and is marked as playable on Steam Deck, holding an 86% positive rating from 1833 Steam reviews.
About Heretic's Fork: Dear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!
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HF: Probation
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, deck building and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Top pick for Heretic's Fork fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Dear candidate, start your free probation period as manager of Hell! Punish sinners by using our deck-building system, constructing fiendish towers to manage underworld hordes. Good luck!
Lost For Swords
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Second-strongest match for Heretic's Fork fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Lost For Swords is a Roguelike Deckbuilder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring. Make your way up the tower, equip weapons and armor, cast spells and scrolls, activate auras, collect loot and defeat monsters in tactical turn-based combat.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Third-strongest match for Heretic's Fork fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Heretic's Fork.
Ranked #4 for Heretic's Fork fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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.
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heretic's Fork fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Ranked #6 for Heretic's Fork fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Ranked #7 for Heretic's Fork fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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!
Zoeti
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Heretic's Fork.
Ranked #8 for Heretic's Fork fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Zoeti is a turn-based roguelite that features a deck of playing cards used to create card combos and activate skills in the heat of battle. Bolster your arsenal of skills through battles, discoverable upgrades, or aid from the locals which enhance your plays to overcome the evil plaguing your land.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heretic's Fork at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Heretic's Fork on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Heretic's Fork on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heretic's Fork on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Heretic's Fork on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heretic's Fork on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Heretic's Fork on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Heretic's Fork on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Heretic's Fork on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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 Action with Heretic's Fork.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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More from 9FingerGames
Other recommendable Steam games by 9FingerGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
My Little Life
WHY THIS
Another title from 9FingerGames, the studio behind Heretic's Fork.
A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
My Little Spider
WHY THIS
Another title from 9FingerGames, the studio behind Heretic's Fork.
Adopt a cute pet spider that lives anywhere on your desktop! Team up to discover unique bugs, decorate their web, and unlock adorable spider hats as you work or relax.
Zapling Bygone
WHY THIS
Another title from 9FingerGames, the studio behind Heretic's Fork. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.
HF: Probation
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, deck building and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Another title from 9FingerGames, the studio behind Heretic's Fork. Shares Action and Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Dear candidate, start your free probation period as manager of Hell! Punish sinners by using our deck-building system, constructing fiendish towers to manage underworld hordes. Good luck!
Heretic's Rapture
WHY THIS
Another title from 9FingerGames, the studio behind Heretic's Fork. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Build a tower out of tetris-like blocks to survive endless waves of demons. A tetris-like, tower-defence, deck-building, bullet-heaven.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Lost For Swords
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Lost For Swords is a Roguelike Deckbuilder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring. Make your way up the tower, equip weapons and armor, cast spells and scrolls, activate auras, collect loot and defeat monsters in tactical turn-based combat.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretic's Fork.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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!
Zoeti
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Heretic's Fork.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Zoeti is a turn-based roguelite that features a deck of playing cards used to create card combos and activate skills in the heat of battle. Bolster your arsenal of skills through battles, discoverable upgrades, or aid from the locals which enhance your plays to overcome the evil plaguing your land.
Frequently asked about Heretic's Fork
- Does Heretic's Fork run on Steam Deck?
- Heretic's Fork 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 Heretic's Fork cost?
- Heretic's Fork is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heretic's Fork?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heretic's Fork are HF: Probation, Lost For Swords, Wildfrost.
- Who developed Heretic's Fork?
- Heretic's Fork was developed by 9FingerGames and published by Ravenage Games.
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