Games like Stratum Descent
If Stratum Descent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pairs & Perils, Roguebook and Gordian Quest — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Stratum Descent: Stratum Descent: a micro rogue-lite deck builder where you forge customizable cards, navigate through dangerous stratums, and confront powerful stratum lords. Upgrade your character, collect relics, and delve deeper into an ever-challenging journey. How far will you descend?

Players who liked Stratum Descent also play
Steam players who put hours into Stratum Descent 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.
Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Top pick for Stratum Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stratum Descent.
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.
Roguebook
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Stratum Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stratum Descent.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
Gordian Quest
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Stratum Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stratum Descent.
An epic deckbuilding RPG inspired by old-school classics like Ultima and D&D, using modern gaming concepts like roguelite elements and turnbased strategic combat. Lead and nurture parties of heroes. Forge bonds and discover new skills among them. Guide them to unravel the curses laid upon the lands.
Deep Sky Derelicts
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Ranked #4 for Stratum Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stratum Descent.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Three Kingdom: The Journey
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Stratum Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stratum Descent.
Craft a legendary deck and lead your troops to protect the Kingdom for the glory of the Han Dynasty in this fast-paced deck-building strategy roguelike. The Kingdom is on the verge of disaster against the Yellow Turbans rebellion, and only you – and your skills as a general – stand in their way!
Indies' Lies
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Ranked #6 for Stratum Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Stratum Descent.
A roguelike deck-building game where you craft a deck, spark talents, discover runes, and assemble your team with partners' cards! Play unique stories for every character and explore a world caught in the clash of gods. New Puppeteer DLC just released!
Circadian Dice
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Ranked #7 for Stratum Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Stratum Descent.
Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend
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Ranked #8 for Stratum Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stratum Descent.
Welcome to Eientei, combine multiple colors of mana to build your ideal deck, duel with gensokyo girls, and chase back the mysterious moon treasure. Also, enjoy the unpredictable Roguelike with fantasy Danmaku!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stratum Descent at current Steam store prices.
Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Stratum Descent on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stratum Descent.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Seraph's Last Stand
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Stratum Descent on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Stratum Descent.
Create insane builds and break the game in all possible ways to get your name into the leaderboards! Every round you get stronger, but so does the enemies...
ULTIMATE HARDBASS DEFENCE
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Priced ~52% under Stratum Descent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stratum Descent.
SHOOT. SURVIVE. DANCE HARDBASS.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~60% under Stratum Descent on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Stratum Descent.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Stratum Descent on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stratum Descent.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Stratum Descent on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Stratum Descent.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stratum Descent.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Stratum Descent.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stratum Descent.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stratum Descent.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Stratum Descent.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Stratum Descent.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Stratum Descent.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Stratum Descent.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Frequently asked about Stratum Descent
- Does Stratum Descent run on Steam Deck?
- Stratum Descent 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 Stratum Descent cost?
- Stratum Descent is listed on Steam at 1.24 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Stratum Descent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stratum Descent are Pairs & Perils, Roguebook, Gordian Quest.
- Who developed Stratum Descent?
- Stratum Descent was developed by That Indie Studio.
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 Stratum Descent.
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