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Games like Orcish Skies

If Orcish Skies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Relapse, Monster Train and Trials of Fire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep tactical deckbuilding, atmospheric 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.

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About Orcish Skies: Orcish Skies blends Roguelike deckbuilding, turn-based, Slay The Spire-styled gameplay with a grid-based map. Fire a missile into a cluster of enemies. Rain down lightning on an enemy Carrier from afar. Fly past a swarm of frigates to pick off the sniper shooting you from across the map.

2023Strategy3.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Certeis Lirre
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Steam players who put hours into Orcish Skies 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.

  1. Relapse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Orcish Skies.

    Top pick for Orcish Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    A 3D deck building roguelike game. Collect over 240 abilities; level them up, enchant them, pair them up with over 100 trinkets, and synergize them with your companions' abilities to create endless combinations to defeat your foes.

    2022Strategy3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Monster Train

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Orcish Skies.

    Second-strongest match for Orcish Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    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.

    2020Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Trials of Fire

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Orcish Skies.

    Third-strongest match for Orcish Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    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!

    2021StrategyIndieRPG3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. StarVaders

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Ranked #4 for Orcish Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Aces & Adventures

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building, character progression and a challenging mood with Orcish Skies.

    Ranked #5 for Orcish Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Aces & Adventures is a deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat. Craft your deck, combining poker hands with powerful ability cards. Journey through 13 fully-voiced campaigns to save the Life Tree, or tackle procedurally-generated runs in this strategic deckbuilder unlike any other.

    2023StrategyAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Banners of Ruin

    WHY THIS

    Shares character progression and a challenging mood with Orcish Skies.

    Ranked #6 for Orcish Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.

    2021StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cobalt Core

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Ranked #7 for Orcish Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

    2023StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Wildfrost

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Ranked #8 for Orcish Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

    2023StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Orcish Skies

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Voidspire Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Reviewers of Orcish Skies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    An indie turn-based Tactics RPG with a heavy emphasis on exploration, character progression, and highly tactical combat. Create your own deeply customizable party of Warriors, Sorcerers, and Shiftcloaks to take on the Spire!

    2015StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Horizon's Gate

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Reviewers of Orcish Skies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Voyage into the wide world of Eral as an explorer, trader, or privateer. Defeat your enemies on land or at sea in deep but straightforward tactical combat. Unravel the secrets behind Dominio's betrayal – or sail off in search of your own adventure.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Cobalt Core

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Reviewers of Orcish Skies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

    2023StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Kingsvein

    WHY THIS

    Shares combo based combat, build variety, indie and an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Reviewers of Orcish Skies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Explore and reclaim the infested castle-city of Kingsvein! Ride into its depths on your trusty wyvern, and lead your customizable party of Knights and Mystics in deep tactical combat.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Orcish Skies at current Steam store prices.

  1. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Orcish Skies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Orcish Skies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    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.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Orcish Skies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Orcish Skies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.

    2006Strategy0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Party Hard

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Orcish Skies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Orcish Skies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Lead the great armies of the Star Wars™ Episode II: Attack of the Clones saga in intense real-time strategy clashes. Enter the fray as the Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Wookies, Trade Federation, Gungans or Royal Naboo to determine the course of the Galactic Civil War.

    2016ActionStrategy1.49 USDSteam ↗
  7. Russian Life Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Orcish Skies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.

    2019ActionSportsStrategy0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Achievement Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Orcish Skies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on steam!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  7. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Trials of Fire

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Orcish Skies.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    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!

    2021StrategyIndieRPG3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. StarVaders

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cobalt Core

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

    2023StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Wildfrost

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Orcish Skies.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Orcish Skies.

    Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

    2023StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Orcish Skies

Does Orcish Skies run on Steam Deck?
Orcish Skies 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 Orcish Skies cost?
Orcish Skies is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Orcish Skies?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Orcish Skies are Relapse, Monster Train, Trials of Fire.
Who developed Orcish Skies?
Orcish Skies was developed by Certeis Lirre.

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 Orcish Skies.

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