Games like Backdraft
If Backdraft is your kind of game, the closest matches are Minecard, Double Skunk and Star Scum — 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 Backdraft: Draft. Fight. Repeat. It’s hero vs hero in a roguelike battle for board control. Summon minions, stack enchantments, and chain attacks into devastating combos. Decide when to clear the board, defend your team, or strike the rival hero.
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Steam players who put hours into Backdraft 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.
Minecard
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Top pick for Backdraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Backdraft.
A competitive pixel art card collecting game inspired by Minecraft. Open boosters, build your deck and face real players in PvP. Climb the leaderboard and prove you're the best!
Double Skunk
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Backdraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Backdraft.
A cribbage roguelite deckbuilder. Build a hand, score a show, win a leg, repeat. Climb the Long Tally from regional clubs to nationals. Stack powerups, spend consumables, mark your cards, and out-peg every opponent. Campaign, online multiplayer, and vs AI.
Star Scum
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Backdraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Backdraft.
Star Scum is a strategy game that fuses deckbuilding with tight turn-based tactics. Forge your deck and customize your ship in the roguelike run, or build decks from scratch and test them out in custom battles or online multiplayer.
Vortex Siege
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Ranked #4 for Backdraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Backdraft.
Defend your city in Vortex Siege, a roguelike collectible card game where you can evolve your cards in unique ways for millions of possibilities. Defeat your enemies in battle, steal their cards, and customize them. Build and defend your town between battles. Collect, customize, and carry on!
Brawl To The West
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Ranked #5 for Backdraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Backdraft.
"Join this hilarious auto-battler! Equip gear, grow fruit trees, and tame monsters to build your team. Choose unique characters or battle others in ranked mode—every run is fresh! Weaklings perish; victors take all. Will you go the farthest? Dive in now!"
Once Upon a Galaxy
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Ranked #6 for Backdraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Backdraft.
ONCE UPON A GALAXY is an easy to learn Card Battler with incredible strategic depth and near infinite fun! Which of your favorite characters from myth and fairy tale will you choose?
He is Coming
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Ranked #7 for Backdraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Backdraft.
Deep in the forgotten corners of the world, a dark force stirs – the Demon King rises once more. Sharpen your wits, seek out powerful artifacts, and stand firm in the face of the apocalypse in this roguelite RPG auto battler.
Duelyst
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Ranked #8 for Backdraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Backdraft.
The depth of CCG meets the strategy of tabletop gaming in Duelyst! Every choice matters, from your General and deck to positioning on the 9x5 battleboard. Competitive head-to-head turn-based battles at its best!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Backdraft
- Does Backdraft have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Backdraft supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Backdraft?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backdraft are Minecard, Double Skunk, Star Scum.
- Who developed Backdraft?
- Backdraft was developed by Legacy Labs.
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 Backdraft.
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