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Games like Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears

If Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deepest Chamber: Resurrection, Pyrene and Pairs & Perils — 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.

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About Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears: Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears is a strategic RPG where you use combinations of various heroes to clear dungeons. Train and utilize heroes to fight off those corrupted by the Black Tears and overcome difficult trials.

2024StrategyRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Nyou
Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — Steam game cover
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Addictive loop of expeditions base upgrades and character unlocksApocalyptic difficulty mode offers meaningful endgame challengeApocalyptic mode delivers brutal rewarding challengesAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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  1. Deepest Chamber: Resurrection

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Top pick for Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Delve into the depths of Deepest Chamber: Resurrection, where card boosting is your key to survival. Employ this unique mechanic to augment your abilities, strategize your next moves and endure a series of increasingly perilous descents in this gripping rogue-lite, card-battling adventure!

    2023StrategyIndieRPG5.84 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Pyrene

    WHY THIS

    Shares equipment upgrades, difficulty scaling, character driven and a contemplative mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Second-strongest match for Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Defeat hellish monsters and rebuild your home in Pyrene, a fast paced roguelike dungeon-crawler. Play with different heroes & spells, collect powerful relics to upgrade your deck while uncovering the mysteries behind your village’s destruction.

    2024StrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Pairs & Perils

    WHY THIS

    Shares character unlocks, difficulty scaling, dungeon crawler and an atmospheric mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Third-strongest match for Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Ranked #4 for Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Throne of Bone

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Ranked #5 for Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Draft minions to defeat all who oppose the noble art of necromancy. Wield spells, discover dark relics, and reclaim your castle to unite the land through undeath in this unholy amalgam of roguelike, deckbuilder, and autobattler.

    2025Strategy16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Black Book

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Ranked #6 for Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    “Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Marvel's Midnight Suns

    WHY THIS

    Shares tactical combat and an immersive mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Ranked #7 for Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.

    2022StrategyRPG8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Monster Train

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Ranked #8 for Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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 ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears

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. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Reviewers of Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Reviewers of Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Command mighty Witcher-world heroes in epic online PvP card battles!

    2020StrategyRPGFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. RAID: Shadow Legends

    WHY THIS

    Shares equipment upgrades, faction politics, grindy and an immersive mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Reviewers of Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    RAID: Shadow Legends is a free-to-play collection RPG with 800+ playable Champions and 8 game modes. Heed the Arbiter's call and defend the dark fantasy world of Teleria.

    2024StrategyMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Darkest Dungeon®

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat and a tense mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Reviewers of Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

    2016StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Summoners War

    WHY THIS

    Shares equipment upgrades, turn based combat, grindy and a tense mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Reviewers of Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    A global hit RPG that captured the Summoners all around the world! Jump into the Sky Arena, a world under battle over the vital resource: Mana Crystals. Design your own deck and strategy using 1,000 Monsters to claim victory. Go on an epic adventure with your Monsters!

    2024StrategyRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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 ↗
  2. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Priced ~58% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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 ↗
  6. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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 ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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 ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

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

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Deepest Chamber: Resurrection

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Delve into the depths of Deepest Chamber: Resurrection, where card boosting is your key to survival. Employ this unique mechanic to augment your abilities, strategize your next moves and endure a series of increasingly perilous descents in this gripping rogue-lite, card-battling adventure!

    2023StrategyIndieRPG5.84 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Pairs & Perils

    WHY THIS

    Shares character unlocks, difficulty scaling, dungeon crawler and an atmospheric mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears

Does Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears run on Steam Deck?
Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears 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 Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears cost?
Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears are Deepest Chamber: Resurrection, Pyrene, Pairs & Perils.
Who developed Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears?
Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears was developed by Nyou.

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