Games like Become the Moon
If Become the Moon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forge the Fates, THE SPIRIT LIFT and SpellRogue — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its build diversity rewards creativity, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Become the Moon: 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.
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Forge the Fates
WHY THIS
Top pick for Become the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
Take deckbuilding to the next level. Transform your hand of cards into a tactical grid of runes. Plan, shift, and strike to unleash powerful combos and chain match-3 bonuses. Choose your hero, master their deck, and fight through deadly dungeons to face a mysterious dark overlord.
THE SPIRIT LIFT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Second-strongest match for Become the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Become the Moon.
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!
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Become the Moon.
Third-strongest match for Become the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, roguelite progression, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Ranked #4 for Become the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
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.
Deliverance & Reign
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Ranked #5 for Become the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
Join a gothic battle where Good confronts Evil using roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Play as either side, invading Alaric's Castle, or as Alaric himself defending against the invading heroes!
Master of Piece
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, skill progression, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Ranked #6 for Become the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies. Venture through the mysterious medieval realm, facing powerful foes and mighty bosses. Simple turn-based rules hide deep strategic depth—build your ultimate team, master the pieces, and uncover the secrets of the Black fog.
Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, build variety, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Ranked #7 for Become the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
What if you combine the best of story-driven RPGs with the strategic decision-making of cardgames? Dawncaster was created to answer that question, containing over 1100 handcrafted cards and over 100 unique challenges designed by veterans of the cardgame genre.
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, build variety and an immersive mood with Become the Moon.
Ranked #8 for Become the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Become the Moon
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an immersive mood with Become the Moon.
Reviewers of Become the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
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!
Storybook Brawl
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Become the Moon.
Reviewers of Become the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Become the Moon.
Draft your favorite characters from story and myth in this 8-player autobattler! Over 40 different heroes to command. Will you side with the evil vampire, Snow Wight? Or team up with the good Princess Peep and her battle hardened sheep? Deep strategy meets enchanting fun in Storybook Brawl!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Reviewers of Become the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
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...
Magic: The Gathering Arena
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with Become the Moon.
Reviewers of Become the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Become the Moon.
Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, meta progression and an immersive mood with Become the Moon.
Reviewers of Become the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Become the Moon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Become the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
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 ~51% under Become the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Become the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
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 ~51% under Become the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Become the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
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 ~51% under Become the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Become the Moon.
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 ~71% under Become the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Become the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Become the Moon.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Become the Moon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Pairs & Perils
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, roguelite progression, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
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.
Master of Piece
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, skill progression, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies. Venture through the mysterious medieval realm, facing powerful foes and mighty bosses. Simple turn-based rules hide deep strategic depth—build your ultimate team, master the pieces, and uncover the secrets of the Black fog.
Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, build variety, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Become the Moon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
What if you combine the best of story-driven RPGs with the strategic decision-making of cardgames? Dawncaster was created to answer that question, containing over 1100 handcrafted cards and over 100 unique challenges designed by veterans of the cardgame genre.
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, build variety and an immersive mood with Become the Moon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Become the Moon.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Frequently asked about Become the Moon
- Does Become the Moon run on Steam Deck?
- Become the Moon 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 Become the Moon cost?
- Become the Moon is listed on Steam at 10.19 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Become the Moon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Become the Moon are Forge the Fates, THE SPIRIT LIFT, SpellRogue.
- Who developed Become the Moon?
- Become the Moon was developed by Feldspar Games, Ben Allen, Mosman and published by Alibi Games.
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 Become the Moon.
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