Games like Underboard
If Underboard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lucha Chess, Seedborne Soldiers and Mystical Tactics — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, funny and nostalgic. 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 Underboard: Tactical team-building roguelike auto-battler with active and passive playstyles. Draft a team as you explore maps full of monsters, build synergies, equip items and cast spells to support your team during battles and help them escape the Underboard.
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Lucha Chess
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Top pick for Underboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Underboard.
Assemble the ultimate team of Mexican wrestlers in this roguelike auto-battler. Combine unique units with powerful items to discover hundreds of synergies while battling your way through.
Seedborne Soldiers
WHY THIS
Shares build variety and a challenging mood with Underboard.
Second-strongest match for Underboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Underboard.
An auto battler roguelike made by obsessive fans of both genres. Draft fighters with matching Traits to power up your team. A massive content pool enables a large variety of builds. Weigh risk vs. reward every round as you carve a path toward each boss.
Mystical Tactics
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Underboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Underboard.
Mystical Tactics is a turn-based tactical-RPG roguelike in which you control a squad of adventurers in a mystical world. Train your heroes in fast-paced tactical battles, equip them with powerful items and lead them to repel the Dark Lord and his legions.
Petrified Pawns
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Ranked #4 for Underboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Underboard.
Defeat chessboard after chessboard without dying on your path to the throne. Assemble an army that you keep alive with healing spells. Make your units stronger by equipping weapons and armor and by upgrading stats as you level up. Become powerful enough to take down giant bosses!
Grinding Guilds
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Ranked #5 for Underboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Underboard.
Grinding Guilds mixes the loot hunt and character building from ARPGs, with the strategy elements of Auto Battlers. Pick your hero, level up, get loot and upgrade abilities. Hire allies for your guild, equip Pacts, position your units and find the best strategy to beat all bosses.
The Last Flame
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Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with Underboard.
Ranked #6 for Underboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Underboard.
Recruit a party of unique heroes, fight deadly encounters, loot and craft powerful gear, discover and create thousands of synergetic builds! The Last Flame is an endless roguelike auto-battler in which you guide a righteous party of heroes through many challenges.
Hive Blight
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Shares tactical positioning, item collection, roguelite and a whimsical mood with Underboard.
Ranked #7 for Underboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Underboard.
Hive Blight is a roguelite autobattler where you lead a team of insect warriors against a corrupting Fungal Threat. Build powerful synergies, uncover the source of the plague, and destroy it to save your world!
Cell Command
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Shares ability gating, build variety, roguelite and a nostalgic mood with Underboard.
Ranked #8 for Underboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Underboard.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Underboard at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Underboard on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Underboard.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Underboard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Underboard.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Underboard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Underboard.
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
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Priced ~47% under Underboard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Underboard.
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
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Priced ~67% under Underboard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Underboard.
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.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Underboard on Steam right now.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~67% under Underboard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Underboard.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Brotato
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Priced ~67% under Underboard on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Underboard.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Underboard.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Underboard.
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 RPG with Underboard.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Underboard.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Underboard.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Frequently asked about Underboard
- Does Underboard run on Steam Deck?
- Underboard 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 Underboard cost?
- Underboard is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Underboard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Underboard are Lucha Chess, Seedborne Soldiers, Mystical Tactics.
- Who developed Underboard?
- Underboard was developed by Headless and published by 2 Left Thumbs.
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 Underboard.
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