Games like Slay the Spire 2
If Slay the Spire 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slay the Spire, Grounds For Termination and Kegs of Eternity — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its brutal, challenging and immersive. 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 →Mega Crit's second entry in their roguelike deck-building series launches in early access in 2026, continuing the fantasy card battler format established by its predecessor. The game centers on strategic deck construction, boss encounters, and character progression through exploration. Players describe the experience as brutal, challenging, immersive, and intense, with hour-long runs featuring distinct modularity that makes each attempt feel fresh. Reviewers highlight that alternate acts provide run variety beyond the original structure, while ancient boons replace boss chests for more impactful end-of-act decisions. The new characters are reported as fun to play, and Mega Crit's track record of balancing and polish from the first game carries forward. Currently priced at $24.99 USD and verified on Steam Deck, the title holds a 94% positive rating from over 54,000 Steam reviews.
About Slay the Spire 2: The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Players who liked Slay the Spire 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Slay the Spire 2 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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Top pick for Slay the Spire 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
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!
Grounds For Termination
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Slay the Spire 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Slay the Spire 2.
The coffee is terrible. The management is worse. A roguelike deckbuilder set in a corporate dystopia - fight through 10 floors of co-workers, managers, and bosses to find out how deep the bad decision making goes. Every run is different. Every termination is a lesson. End the bureaucracy.
Kegs of Eternity
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Slay the Spire 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
A roguelite deckbuilder starring seven stubborn dwarves. Build unique decks, slay cursed monsters, crawl procedural dungeons, drink plenty of beer, find broken synergies, and rebuild your ruined town, one keg, one combo, one dwarf at a time.
Crown Control
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Slay the Spire 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slay the Spire 2.
Tactical roguelike deckbuilder: play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Choose your character, level up your class, collect and play cards to attack, defend, heal, summon allies, place traps, and alter the terrain in turn-based isometric battles to overthrow a tyrant king.
Whispers of Elenrod
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Slay the Spire 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slay the Spire 2.
Deck-building meets strategy map exploration. Craft powerful decks. Discover mysterious artifacts on procedurally generated maps. Defeat enemies in turn-based combat and gain experience to evolve your hero. Create your best build…and find all the Whispers of Elenrod!
Dream Team Supreme
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Ranked #6 for Slay the Spire 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Slay the Spire 2.
Battle the monster invasion in exciting deckbuilding battles straight out of a comic book! Control your robot with specialized cartridges, enhance it and your deck, and collaborate on strategic combinations alongside your team of scientists - it’s up to you to save the world!
StrategySteam ↗Low Magic They Said
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Slay the Spire 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where broken builds are a feature, not a bug. Think Slay the Spire meets the unforgiving difficulty of Dark Souls, with Diablo 2's philosophy of letting you discover ridiculously powerful builds yourself. They lied about the magic being low.
Ribbit Rogue
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Slay the Spire 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
Stop the corruption in this strategic turn based deck-builder roguelike. Collect and upgrade dice for your limited deck, discover powerful relics to create game breaking synergies, and navigate unique events on your way to the heart of the swamp.
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Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Slay the Spire 2.
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.
Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath, deck building, fantasy and a punishing mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
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.
Across the Obelisk
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
Set forth in a co-op roguelite deckbuilder where every choice matters! Craft decks of breathtaking power. Journey alone or with up to three friends. Plot your party’s path to glory and face powerful enemies in deep tactical combat on your quest to save the kingdom of Senenthia in Across the Obelisk!
Vault of the Void
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
Vault of the Void is a fast-paced roguelike deckbuilder where the power is in your hands. Continuously customise your deck, crafting powerful combos and ingenious strategies. Upgrade your cards with Void Stones, infusing them with new abilities to help defeat the minions of The Void!
Griftlands
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
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...
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Slay the Spire 2.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Slay the Spire 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Slay the Spire 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Slay the Spire 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Slay the Spire 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Slay the Spire 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Slay the Spire 2.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Slay the Spire 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Slay the Spire 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire 2.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Slay the Spire 2 on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Slay the Spire 2.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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 Slay the Spire 2.
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 Slay the Spire 2.
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 Slay the Spire 2.
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 Slay the Spire 2.
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
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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 Slay the Spire 2.
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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Frequently asked about Slay the Spire 2
- Is Slay the Spire 2 verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Slay the Spire 2 is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Slay the Spire 2 cost?
- Slay the Spire 2 is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Slay the Spire 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Slay the Spire 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Slay the Spire 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Slay the Spire 2 are Slay the Spire, Grounds For Termination, Kegs of Eternity.
- Who developed Slay the Spire 2?
- Slay the Spire 2 was developed by Mega Crit.
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 Slay the Spire 2.
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