Games like Card Crawl Adventure
If Card Crawl Adventure is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pairs & Perils, 可识此阵 and Trials of Fire — 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 Card Crawl Adventure: Card Crawl Adventure is a single player card game with light deck building and roguelite elements. Engage in a unique path based combat mechanic to battle against devious tavern bosses. Visit a variety of cozy taverns, collect cards and improve your deck with magic equipment items and charms.
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Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Top pick for Card Crawl Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Third-strongest match for Card Crawl Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Ranked #4 for Card Crawl Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
Krumit's Tale, the second game in the Meteorfall universe, is a new take on the deckbuilding roguelike genre. Use your cards to clear dungeons, then upgrade your deck with new cards and perks to press forward. The fate of the world is in your hands.
Deliverance & Reign
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Ranked #5 for Card Crawl Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
Join a gothic battle where Good confronts Evil using roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Play as either side, invading Alaric's Castle, or as Alaric himself defending against the invading heroes!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Ranked #6 for Card Crawl Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
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!
Pirates Outlaws
WHY THIS
Shares status effects and an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Ranked #7 for Card Crawl Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Ranked #8 for Card Crawl Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
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.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Reviewers of Card Crawl Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
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!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Reviewers of Card Crawl Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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.
Card Crawl
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Reviewers of Card Crawl Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
Card Crawl is a solitaire style Dungeon Crawler played with a deck of cards.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Card Crawl Adventure at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Crawl Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Crawl Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Card Crawl Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Crawl Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Crawl Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Crawl Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Crawl Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Crawl Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Card Crawl Adventure.
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.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
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 with Card Crawl Adventure.
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!
NERTS! Online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Cats and Seek: Osaka
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
Hey, do you have 5 minutes to spare? Let's play hide and seek with 100 cats in Osaka! 😻 Can you find them all?
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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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.
Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
Krumit's Tale, the second game in the Meteorfall universe, is a new take on the deckbuilding roguelike genre. Use your cards to clear dungeons, then upgrade your deck with new cards and perks to press forward. The fate of the world is in your hands.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Card Crawl Adventure.
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!
Pirates Outlaws
WHY THIS
Shares status effects and an atmospheric mood with Card Crawl Adventure.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Card Crawl Adventure.
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Frequently asked about Card Crawl Adventure
- Does Card Crawl Adventure run on Steam Deck?
- Card Crawl Adventure 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 Card Crawl Adventure cost?
- Card Crawl Adventure is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Card Crawl Adventure?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Card Crawl Adventure are Pairs & Perils, 可识此阵, Trials of Fire.
- Who developed Card Crawl Adventure?
- Card Crawl Adventure was developed by Arnold Rauers.
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