Games like Race to Ruler
If Race to Ruler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Leaf Us Alone, Kingfall and Dungeon Raid — 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 Race to Ruler: Race to Ruler is a deck-building roguelike where your cards are your army as you embark on a journey to defeat the ruler of an empire. Draft and train new units, summon epic beings, defeat your rivals, and claim the crown.
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Leaf Us Alone
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Top pick for Race to Ruler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
Build a powerful army with synergistic abilities, and prove your strategic mastery in this unique deckbuilding roguelite. Command your forces in battle, triggering outrageous combo to defeat the invading Voidlings threatening to consume the world.
Kingfall
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Second-strongest match for Race to Ruler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
A roguelike deckbuilder where your cards move like chess pieces. Build an army, bless your troops, and conquer the kingdom one battle at a time.
StrategySteam ↗Dungeon Raid
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Third-strongest match for Race to Ruler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
Dungeon Raid is an adventure card roguelike. Dive deeper and deeper into the dungeon. Use everything you find to defeat enemies and kill the final boss. Good luck! And try not to die... from hunger.
Forge the Fates
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Ranked #4 for Race to Ruler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
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.
Silent Mainland
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Ranked #5 for Race to Ruler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
Silent Mainland is a Roguelike deck-builder mixing positioning and board tactics on a 5×12 battlefield. Every card is a life-or-death choice. As monster waves surge like a tide, only sharp positioning and smart deckbuilding carve a path to survival.
Carnholt
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Ranked #6 for Race to Ruler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
Craft a deck of wild creatures and powerful spells, fight in tactical battles, and slay a God that refused death. Carnholt is a deckbuilding roguelike where you must bind your soul to an ancient beast and harness the corpses of the dead to achieve victory.
Bibidi Bibidi!
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Ranked #7 for Race to Ruler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
Bibidi Bibidi! is a whimsical deckbuilder where your wizard shouts whatever spell you conjure up. Every card has 3 components that you combine in your spellbook for unique effects. Mix and match incantations like sim-sala-bim and abra-kadabra to zap your way through a dungeon filled with monsters.
Montabi
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Ranked #8 for Race to Ruler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi in this Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!
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Tukoni: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
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
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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!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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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.
Children of Silentown: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Race to Ruler.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
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- What games are most similar to Race to Ruler?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Race to Ruler are Leaf Us Alone, Kingfall, Dungeon Raid.
- Who developed Race to Ruler?
- Race to Ruler was developed by Glory Works.
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