Games like Catale
If Catale is your kind of game, the closest matches are Relapse, Circadian Dice and Pawnbarian — 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 Catale: Catale is a new type of card game with a mix of CCG and RogueLike. Use units strategically in the field, and attack enemies with spells to win. After opening the loot pack to get the card, make your own deck to face a more powerful enemy...!
Players who liked Catale also play
Steam players who put hours into Catale 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.
Relapse
WHY THIS
Top pick for Catale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catale.
A 3D deck building roguelike game. Collect over 240 abilities; level them up, enchant them, pair them up with over 100 trinkets, and synergize them with your companions' abilities to create endless combinations to defeat your foes.
Circadian Dice
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Catale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catale.
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!
Pawnbarian
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Catale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Catale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Catale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catale.
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.
Pyrene
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Catale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catale.
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.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Catale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Catale.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Luck Beast is a Touhou Doujin Card-Strategy Game. Using cards across different seasons, join forces with duelists of unique abilities, face various opponents from all over Gensoukyo, and uncover the truth behind the Card Duel Incident!
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Catale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catale.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Catale at current Steam store prices.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Catale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Catale.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Catale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Catale.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Catale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Catale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Nubby's Number Factory
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Catale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Catale.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Catale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Catale.
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.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Catale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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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.
Pawnbarian
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Catale.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Catale.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Frequently asked about Catale
- How much does Catale cost?
- Catale is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Catale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Catale are Relapse, Circadian Dice, Pawnbarian.
- Who developed Catale?
- Catale was developed by FancyCube.
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 Catale.
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