Games like Handmancers
If Handmancers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abjure, Low Magic They Said and RogueJack21 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, nostalgic and relaxing. 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 Handmancers: Handmancers is a Rock, Paper, Scissors Roguelite deckbuilder with a first-person twist where clear tactical choices meet deck-building depth. Craft your deck, enhance your cards, equip tricky artifacts and face powerful enemies in strategic fights
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Steam players who put hours into Handmancers 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.
Abjure
WHY THIS
Top pick for Handmancers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
Win by emptying your hand. Abjure is a roguelike deckbuilder where the 2 of Spades reigns supreme — draft cards, stack relics, and outplay every opponent in a strategic twist on the Big 2 card game.
Low Magic They Said
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Handmancers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where broken builds are a feature, not a bug. Think Slay the Spire meets the unforgiving difficulty of Dark Souls, with Diablo 2's philosophy of letting you discover ridiculously powerful builds yourself. They lied about the magic being low.
RogueJack21
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and replayability with Handmancers.
Third-strongest match for Handmancers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
RogueJack21 is a Blackjack-inspired deckbuilder where you build and upgrade your deck to battle your opponents. Navigate through procedurally generated casinos and take revenge on The House, the ruthless mafia ruling Noir City that stole everything from you.
Dark Cards of Candlewood
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Ranked #4 for Handmancers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
A solo collectible card game with the soul of a classic JRPG. Embark on replayable dungeon runs with deceptively deep, two-choice card combat. Draft items for your backpack, master chain attacks, and even crack a few card packs...then save the world from eternal darkness!
Into The Grid
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, upgrade system and a challenging mood with Handmancers.
Ranked #5 for Handmancers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
Become a master hacker in this Cyberpunk Roguelike Deckbuilder. Explore the dangers of cyberspace and fight evil corporations. Build and upgrade a deck of powerful programs. Unlock perks and skills, and unleash digital hell on your enemies. Dive Into The Grid!
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Shares roguelike progression, deck building, fantasy and a challenging mood with Handmancers.
Ranked #6 for Handmancers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
As We Descend
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Handmancers.
Ranked #7 for Handmancers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Become the Moon
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Shares deck building, meta progression, adventure and a challenging mood with Handmancers.
Ranked #8 for Handmancers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
Become the Moon is a challenging, deckbuilding auto battler. Choose from 10 unique characters, each with their own distinct playstyles. Assemble a team of powerful minions & cast cosmic spells where every run takes you one step closer to the moon.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Handmancers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Handmancers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Handmancers.
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 ~67% under Handmancers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Handmancers.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Handmancers on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Handmancers.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Handmancers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Handmancers.
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
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Priced ~50% under Handmancers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Handmancers.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Handmancers.
Priced ~58% under Handmancers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
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 Handmancers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
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 ~67% under Handmancers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Handmancers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Handmancers.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Handmancers.
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 and RPG with Handmancers.
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!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Handmancers.
《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.
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Handmancers.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Paladins®
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Handmancers.
Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!
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Frequently asked about Handmancers
- Does Handmancers run on Steam Deck?
- Handmancers 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 Handmancers cost?
- Handmancers is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Handmancers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Handmancers are Abjure, Low Magic They Said, RogueJack21.
- Who developed Handmancers?
- Handmancers was developed by 58BLADES and published by 58BLADES, Human Qube Games.
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