Games like Drop Duchy
If Drop Duchy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Number One Rich, 100 Steps and Knights of the Tiny Table — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and immersive. 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 →Drop Duchy is a roguelite from Sleepy Mill Studio, published by The Arcade Crew in 2025 for 14.99 USD. It fuses Tetris-style block placement with deck-building and light base-building, so each dropped block collects resources, recruits troops, and shapes a realm against opposing armies. Built around block placement, deck-building, and tactical combat, it rewards card synergies and build variety across ascension modes and challenge modifiers. Reviewers describe it as challenging, relaxing, and immersive, and highlight the unusual fusion and the depth of card synergies. It scored 83 on Metacritic, holds 91% positive of 1,463 Steam reviews, and runs well on Steam Deck, where it is rated Playable.
About Drop Duchy: Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!
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Number One Rich
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a competitive mood with Drop Duchy.
Top pick for Drop Duchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
Number one rich is an 8-player board game. You roll the dice to determine the number of steps you take. You can buy land and upgrade buildings. When you pass through other players' land, you must pay rent. You can get the first place by bankrupting other players.
100 Steps
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Drop Duchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
100 Steps is a roguelike tower crawler in a fantasy boardgame setting. There is only one rule, you have 100 actions to reach the top. Defy the gods' rules, but beware their impending fury!
Knights of the Tiny Table
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Drop Duchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
Help King Arthur and his Knights defend the realm. Slay the evil entities with a combination of lucky dice rolls and clever tactics.
Right and Down
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Drop Duchy.
Ranked #5 for Drop Duchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
A deep roguelike and card game that is played using only two buttons: Right and Down! Choose your hero and explore randomly generated card dungeons, gather powerful artifacts to get new abilities, and fight against mighty enemies! Will you make it to level 50?
Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Drop Duchy.
Ranked #6 for Drop Duchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Heroes Wanted
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty modes, deck building, indie and a relaxing mood with Drop Duchy.
Ranked #7 for Drop Duchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
"Heroes Wanted" immerses you in a world of endless deck-building possibilities. Over a hundred of heroes and items, combined with elements, unleash powerful synergies. SIMPLE, FUN, and ADDICTIVE! Heroes await your call to deliver the ultimate blow to the Demon Lord.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Drop Duchy.
Ranked #8 for Drop Duchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
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.
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Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Drop Duchy.
Reviewers of Drop Duchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Drop Duchy.
Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!
Monster Slayers
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Drop Duchy.
Reviewers of Drop Duchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Drop Duchy.
Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Drop Duchy.
Reviewers of Drop Duchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
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!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and an immersive mood with Drop Duchy.
Reviewers of Drop Duchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Drop Duchy.
Reviewers of Drop Duchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Drop Duchy.
Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!
ANIME TETRIS
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Reviewers of Drop Duchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
The legendary game "Tetris" in a unique performance and atmosphere
Shogun Showdown
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Drop Duchy.
Reviewers of Drop Duchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Drop Duchy.
Reviewers of Drop Duchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Drop Duchy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Drop Duchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drop Duchy.
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 Drop Duchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drop Duchy.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Drop Duchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drop Duchy.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Drop Duchy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Drop Duchy.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Drop Duchy.
Priced ~58% under Drop Duchy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Drop Duchy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
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 Drop Duchy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Drop Duchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drop Duchy.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Drop Duchy.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drop Duchy.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drop Duchy.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drop Duchy.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drop Duchy.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drop Duchy.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
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Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Drop Duchy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Heroes Wanted
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty modes, deck building, indie and a relaxing mood with Drop Duchy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
"Heroes Wanted" immerses you in a world of endless deck-building possibilities. Over a hundred of heroes and items, combined with elements, unleash powerful synergies. SIMPLE, FUN, and ADDICTIVE! Heroes await your call to deliver the ultimate blow to the Demon Lord.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Drop Duchy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drop Duchy.
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.
Frequently asked about Drop Duchy
- Does Drop Duchy run on Steam Deck?
- Drop Duchy 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 Drop Duchy cost?
- Drop Duchy is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Drop Duchy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Drop Duchy are Number One Rich, 100 Steps, Knights of the Tiny Table.
- Who developed Drop Duchy?
- Drop Duchy was developed by Sleepy Mill Studio and published by The Arcade Crew.
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