Games like Cardinal Descent
If Cardinal Descent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fortunato, Retromine and THORNSPELL — 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 Cardinal Descent: Cardinal Descent is a card building roguelike where you craft elemental synergies and find game breaking sticker combos.
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Steam players who put hours into Cardinal Descent 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.
Fortunato
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Top pick for Cardinal Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Draw a pair of aces, use them as poker hands or to eliminate your opponents? A poker roguelike battle card game. Build a deck of jokers, defeat bosses, modify cards, and conquer challenges across the ever-changing islands. At the table of four, win by chips or remaining health, your call...
Retromine
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Second-strongest match for Cardinal Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
Retromine is an ultra-satisfying tough-as-nails deckbuilding roguelike. Delve into the caves, mine resources, and escape before the caverns collapse! Spend your ore to buy new cards, upgrade your deck, and discover powerful combos on your way to the bottom of the world. Dig, die, learn, repeat!
THORNSPELL
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Third-strongest match for Cardinal Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
Embody a magical florist by placing plants strategically in your garden, and watering them to score points. THORNSPELL is a garden-building roguelike where you will create and unleash chains of magical effects, dispelling the corruption spreading through your home.
Random Dragons
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Ranked #4 for Cardinal Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
A chance-based roguelike deckbuilder with silly, chaotic dragons. Spin the roulette wheel to multiply your card effects, manipulate the odds, and unleash ridiculous combo turns. Build a synergistic deck, outsmart RNG, and climb your way to the Boss Dragons.
RogueJack21
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Ranked #5 for Cardinal Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
RogueJack21 is a Blackjack-inspired deckbuilder where you build and upgrade your deck to battle your opponents. Navigate through procedurally generated casinos and take revenge on The House, the ruthless mafia ruling Noir City that stole everything from you.
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
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Ranked #6 for Cardinal Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Black Jacket
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Ranked #7 for Cardinal Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
Wildfrost
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Ranked #8 for Cardinal Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardinal Descent.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Frequently asked about Cardinal Descent
- What games are most similar to Cardinal Descent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardinal Descent are Fortunato, Retromine, THORNSPELL.
- Who developed Cardinal Descent?
- Cardinal Descent was developed by Liam Flannery.
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 Cardinal Descent.
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