Games like Faith in Despair
If Faith in Despair is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whispers of Elenrod, Silent Mainland and Escape the Dynasty — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and cozy. 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 Faith in Despair: Forge your own cards with triggers, actions and modifiers. Shape your deck and gamble against Death itself. Make one mistake and you will descend into despair.
Players who liked Faith in Despair also play
Steam players who put hours into Faith in Despair 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.
Whispers of Elenrod
WHY THIS
Top pick for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Faith in Despair.
Deck-building meets strategy map exploration. Craft powerful decks. Discover mysterious artifacts on procedurally generated maps. Defeat enemies in turn-based combat and gain experience to evolve your hero. Create your best build…and find all the Whispers of Elenrod!
Silent Mainland
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
Silent Mainland is a Roguelike deck-builder mixing positioning and board tactics on a 5×12 battlefield. Every card is a life-or-death choice. As monster waves surge like a tide, only sharp positioning and smart deckbuilding carve a path to survival.
Escape the Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, skill tree progression, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Faith in Despair.
Third-strongest match for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
A Roguelike Deckbuilder meets Turn-Based Auto-Battler! Trapped in a dark Three Kingdoms tower, command your army on a strategic 3x10 grid. Equip cards with unique "Wine" skills, master the Art of War, and make crucial choices in random events. Break the seal and Escape the Dynasty!
Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
Choose your mech, customize your loadout, and build your perfect deck. Experiment with cards to find powerful combinations as you enjoy the tactical combat and deckbuilding in this roguelike adventure!
Card Slay
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
The poker roguelike where the House fights back. Chase the flush, sweat the last discard, then slam it down and watch the damage hit: red suits strike, black suits shield. The monsters read your hand, call your ranks and cheat, so stack your ritual deck, out-cheat them, and slay your fate.
RogueJack21
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, roguelite progression, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Faith in Despair.
Ranked #6 for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
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.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, deck building and a challenging mood with Faith in Despair.
Ranked #7 for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Hadean Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Faith in Despair.
Ranked #8 for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Faith in Despair at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.
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 Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
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 Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.
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 Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Faith in Despair.
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 ~64% under Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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 Faith in Despair.
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!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.
《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.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faith in Despair.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Frequently asked about Faith in Despair
- Is Faith in Despair verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Faith in Despair 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 Faith in Despair cost?
- Faith in Despair is listed on Steam at 8.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Faith in Despair?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Faith in Despair are Whispers of Elenrod, Silent Mainland, Escape the Dynasty.
- Who developed Faith in Despair?
- Faith in Despair was developed by Philipp Lehner.
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 Faith in Despair.
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