Games like Card Rogue
If Card Rogue is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forward Brave, Cards of Patience and Rogue Dungeon — 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 Card Rogue: A roguelike RPG that you can play in 2-3 minutes! You get three randomly dealt cards, but you can only choose one! This is what happens when you distill the essence of a roguelike RPG!
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Forward Brave
WHY THIS
Top pick for Card Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
《Forward Brave》has no turning back. Choose your hero, explore the program-generated card dungeon, collect resources, kill enemies, combine and match active skills with various special-effect artifacts, make rational use of various props and buffs, move to the next floor, and finally win the victory!
Cards of Patience
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Card Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
Cards of Patience combines solitaire-like gameplay with RPG and roguelite elements. Choose your hero and fight against a variety of enemies by destroying all their cards. Use different levelable spells and equip yourself with powerful items and potions.
Rogue Dungeon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Card Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
Based on the board game, Rogue Dungeon is a solo dungeon crawler. It plays like an old-school roguelike, using hand management, card draw and dice rolling as primary game mechanics. Players will need to figure out how best to use their hero abilities, skills, items, experience and luck to survive.
Shadowhand: RPG Card Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Card Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
Shadowhand is a strategic RPG card game. Duel powerful enemies in 18th Century England with unique solitaire-style turn-based combat. Equip your character strategically to sneak, slice and blast through foes!
Dungeon Drafters
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Card Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
Dungeon Drafters is a mystery dungeon adventure set in a world where magic is cards, and cards are magic. Explore ancient ruins, loot rare cards and employ clever combos to defeat your foes and build the legendary spell deck that could save the world.
Ancient Enemy
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Card Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
Ancient Enemy is an RPG card battler set in a crumbling world where the forces of evil have already won. Blast distorted enemies with a satisfying range of spells and abilities. Journey into a scarred wilderness and draw power and hope from the landscape to defeat the deadliest foe of all!
Tainted Grail: Conquest
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Card Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Card Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Card Rogue at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Rogue.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Card Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Rogue.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Card Rogue.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Card Rogue.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Card Rogue.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
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. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Card Rogue.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Card Rogue.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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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.
Dungeon Drafters
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
Dungeon Drafters is a mystery dungeon adventure set in a world where magic is cards, and cards are magic. Explore ancient ruins, loot rare cards and employ clever combos to defeat your foes and build the legendary spell deck that could save the world.
Tainted Grail: Conquest
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Rogue.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Rogue.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Frequently asked about Card Rogue
- How much does Card Rogue cost?
- Card Rogue is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Card Rogue?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Card Rogue are Forward Brave, Cards of Patience, Rogue Dungeon.
- Who developed Card Rogue?
- Card Rogue was developed by Game Tsukuru Kun.
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