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Games like Faith in Despair

If Faith in Despair is your kind of game, the closest matches are Silent Mainland, Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾 and RogueJack21 — 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.

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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.

2025StrategyIndie8.39 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Philipp Lehner
Faith in Despair — Steam game cover
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31 day campaign with varied daily modifiersBuild your own cards by slotting lacrima triggers and effectsCraft self triggering infinite combosAtmosphericChallengingCozy

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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.

  1. Silent Mainland

    WHY THIS

    Top pick 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 deckbuilder based on movement and grid mechanics. Players engage in tactical battles on a vast 5x12 battlefield. Facing waves of oncoming monsters, use card-driven movement and positional control to defeat foes in dynamic formations.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾

    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.

    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!

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  3. RogueJack21

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building, roguelite progression, roguelite 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.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual7.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Balatro

    WHY THIS

    Shares build crafting, deck building and a challenging mood with Faith in Despair.

    Ranked #4 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.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Hadean Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Faith in Despair.

    Ranked #5 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!

    2023StrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. THE SPIRIT LIFT

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faith in Despair.

    Ranked #6 for Faith in Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Faith in Despair.

    A retro horror deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel in the 1990s. Choose your teens, explore and fight! If you die rewind the night!

    2026StrategyAdventure15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Become the Moon

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building, roguelite progression and atmospheric 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.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndie10.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Monster Train

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building 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 with Faith in Despair.

    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 ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. 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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. 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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Faith in Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Moonring

    WHY THIS

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

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2015ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Muck

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faith in Despair.

    Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    2017ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Faith in Despair

Does Faith in Despair run on Steam Deck?
Faith in Despair 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 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 Silent Mainland, Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾, RogueJack21.
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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