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Games like Canvas - The Board Game

If Canvas - The Board Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Point Salad - The Board Game, Lazy Chess and Biblios Dice — 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.

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About Canvas - The Board Game: Create stunning paintings, layer cards strategically, and score ribbons in Canvas - a digital board game where art meets strategy. Choose and combine Art Cards to create beautiful paintings and enjoy a mix of artistic expression and tactical gameplay.

2025StrategyIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Mipmap Digital
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Steam players who put hours into Canvas - The Board Game 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.

  1. Point Salad - The Board Game

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Canvas - The Board Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Turn your kitchen into a playground with Point Salad - the delightful digital take on a fast-paced, card-drafting, family board game! Craft the ultimate salad by snagging carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, cabbages, or peppers, and customize it to perfection based on unique recipe requirements.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual8.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Lazy Chess

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Canvas - The Board Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.

    2021StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Biblios Dice

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Canvas - The Board Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Biblios Dice is a digital adaptation of the dice game by Dr. Finn. In it you are working as medieval monks to produce illustrations and improve the prestige of your abbey. Manipulate the value of the five different resources, buy and sell at the market, and gain the bishop's favor.

    2023StrategyCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Roll Player - The Board Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Canvas - The Board Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Create the ultimate Fantasy character by rolling dice, building attributes, purchasing weapons, gaining skills, and discovering character traits in Roll Player, a digital adaptation of a popular board game of dice manipulation and strategy!

    2023StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Fortune Avenue

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Canvas - The Board Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Canvas - The Board Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    The official digital version of Hasbro’s classic mystery board game, Cluedo (Clue). Roll the dice and launch into a murder investigation. Whodunit? With what weapon? Where? You’ll need all your brain power to find the answers you need, as you race your friends and family to the truth!

    2018StrategyCasual16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Rento Fortune: Online Dice Board Game (大富翁)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Canvas - The Board Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Rento is multiplayer business dice game. It is board game for 2 to 8 players.Trade lands, build houses, win auctions, roll wheel of fortune, risk in Russian Roulette and have fun.Play with your friends and acquire a monopoly over the game board :)

    2017StrategyIndieMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Ticket to Ride®

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Canvas - The Board Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Discover a fresh adaptation of the iconic, multi-award-winning board game. Play against fellow fans around the world, or take on state-of-the-art AI opponents. Build a railway empire, claim routes and dominate your competitors on the leaderboards in this fan-favourite modern classic!

    2023StrategySimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Canvas - The Board Game at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Canvas - The Board Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Canvas - The Board Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Canvas - The Board Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Canvas - The Board Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Canvas - The Board Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Canvas - The Board Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Canvas - The Board Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Canvas - The Board Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Fortune Avenue

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Casual with Canvas - The Board Game.

    The official digital version of Hasbro’s classic mystery board game, Cluedo (Clue). Roll the dice and launch into a murder investigation. Whodunit? With what weapon? Where? You’ll need all your brain power to find the answers you need, as you race your friends and family to the truth!

    2018StrategyCasual16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Rento Fortune: Online Dice Board Game (大富翁)

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Canvas - The Board Game.

    Rento is multiplayer business dice game. It is board game for 2 to 8 players.Trade lands, build houses, win auctions, roll wheel of fortune, risk in Russian Roulette and have fun.Play with your friends and acquire a monopoly over the game board :)

    2017StrategyIndieMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Canvas - The Board Game

Does Canvas - The Board Game run on Steam Deck?
Canvas - The Board Game is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Canvas - The Board Game cost?
Canvas - The Board Game is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Canvas - The Board Game have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Canvas - The Board Game supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Canvas - The Board Game?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Canvas - The Board Game are Point Salad - The Board Game, Lazy Chess, Biblios Dice.
Who developed Canvas - The Board Game?
Canvas - The Board Game was developed by Mipmap Digital.

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 Canvas - The Board Game.

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