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Games like Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears

Below are 20 hand-picked alternatives to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears for fans of strategy, rpg, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.

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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    Deepest Chamber: Resurrection — Steam game cover

    Deepest Chamber: Resurrection

    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 ↗
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    Pyrene — Steam game cover

    Pyrene

    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 ↗
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    Pairs & Perils — Steam game cover

    Pairs & Perils

    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 ↗
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    Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG — Steam game cover

    Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

    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 ↗
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    Black Book — Steam game cover

    Black Book

    Ranked #5 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 ↗
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    Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters — Steam game cover

    Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

    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.

    Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.

    2022StrategyRPG44.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Monster Train — Steam game cover

    Monster Train

    Ranked #7 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 ↗
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    Banners of Ruin — Steam game cover

    Banners of Ruin

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

    Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.

    2021StrategyRPG19.99 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.

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    Darkest Dungeon® — Steam game cover

    Darkest Dungeon®

    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 ↗
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    Slay the Spire — Steam game cover

    Slay the Spire

    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 ↗
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    GWENT: The Witcher Card Game — Steam game cover

    GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

    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 ↗
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    RAID: Shadow Legends — Steam game cover

    RAID: Shadow Legends

    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 ↗
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    Summoners War — Steam game cover

    Summoners War

    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.

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    Deepest Chamber: Resurrection — Steam game cover

    Deepest Chamber: Resurrection

    Priced ~61% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. 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 ↗
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    Pyrene — Steam game cover

    Pyrene

    Priced ~40% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. 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 ↗
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    Pairs & Perils — Steam game cover

    Pairs & Perils

    Priced ~60% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. 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 ↗
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    Monster Train — Steam game cover

    Monster Train

    Priced ~67% under Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears on Steam right now. 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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

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    Deepest Chamber: Resurrection — Steam game cover

    Deepest Chamber: Resurrection

    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 ↗
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    Pairs & Perils — Steam game cover

    Pairs & Perils

    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 ↗
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    Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG — Steam game cover

    Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

    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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