Games like Lost For Swords
If Lost For Swords is your kind of game, the closest matches are LONESTAR, Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon and Breach Wanderers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Lost For Swords: Lost For Swords is a Roguelike Deckbuilder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring. Make your way up the tower, equip weapons and armor, cast spells and scrolls, activate auras, collect loot and defeat monsters in tactical turn-based combat.
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LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lost For Swords.
Top pick for Lost For Swords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon
WHY THIS
Shares roguelike progression, deck building, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Lost For Swords.
Second-strongest match for Lost For Swords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon is a turn-based Roguelike card game where you assume the role of a Shu general. Explore dungeons, gather relics, and amass a collection of cards. In each round, you can assemble a unique combination of cards and treasures to defeat your enemies and rewrite history!
Breach Wanderers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lost For Swords.
Third-strongest match for Lost For Swords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
A fresh take on Roguelike Deckbuilders that lets you fine-tune your decks before each run to adapt your strategy on your way to victory. Over 1,200 cards to choose from, ten characters with their own set of unique skills, and dozens of items and missions to evolve your tactics.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Lost For Swords.
Ranked #4 for Lost For Swords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Lost For Swords.
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.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares equipment upgrades, deck building and a challenging mood with Lost For Swords.
Ranked #5 for Lost For Swords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
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!
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, replayability, roguelite and a tense mood with Lost For Swords.
Ranked #6 for Lost For Swords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Right and Down
WHY THIS
Shares grid based movement and a contemplative mood with Lost For Swords.
Ranked #7 for Lost For Swords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
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?
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Lost For Swords.
Ranked #8 for Lost For Swords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
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 Lost For Swords at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Lost For Swords on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lost For Swords.
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 ~41% under Lost For Swords on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Lost For Swords.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Lost For Swords on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
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 ~41% under Lost For Swords on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lost For Swords.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Lost For Swords on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lost For Swords.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Lost For Swords on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lost For Swords.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Lost For Swords on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lost For Swords.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Lost For Swords on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Lost For Swords.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lost For Swords.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lost For Swords.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lost For Swords.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lost For Swords.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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 Lost For Swords.
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 Lost For Swords.
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 Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lost For Swords.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Breach Wanderers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lost For Swords.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
A fresh take on Roguelike Deckbuilders that lets you fine-tune your decks before each run to adapt your strategy on your way to victory. Over 1,200 cards to choose from, ten characters with their own set of unique skills, and dozens of items and missions to evolve your tactics.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares equipment upgrades, deck building and a challenging mood with Lost For Swords.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
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!
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, replayability, roguelite and a tense mood with Lost For Swords.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Lost For Swords.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost For Swords.
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 Lost For Swords
- Is Lost For Swords verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Lost For Swords is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Lost For Swords cost?
- Lost For Swords is listed on Steam at 8.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lost For Swords?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lost For Swords are LONESTAR, Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon, Breach Wanderers.
- Who developed Lost For Swords?
- Lost For Swords was developed by MaxBytes and published by MaxBytes, Astrolabe Games.
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