Games like Cardburners
If Cardburners is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Legacy of Shadow's Bane TCG, Origins TCG and Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta — 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 Cardburners: CardBurners is a chaotic fast-paced, solo or online versus card game. You must play your cards quickly before they burn in your hand! Mix and match completely different sets of cards and rules to create unique action packed games.
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Steam players who put hours into Cardburners 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.
The Legacy of Shadow's Bane TCG
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cardburners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cardburners.
Based on the book "The Legacy of Shadow's Bane" featuring characters from the first book of the series along with many new characters yet to be introduced. This game features a single player adventure mode, single player versus mode (against AI), and online multiplayer with global rankings.
Origins TCG
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cardburners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cardburners.
Outplay opponents, rip packs, and collect tradable cards in a zero pay-to-win competitive TCG that blends the best of Hearthstone, Marvel Snap, Counter Strike and Pokémon.
Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cardburners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardburners.
Ariokan is a highly interactive, strategically-deep competitive card game with a twist: you can create new cards, and use them to build crazy combos around Gods and Legends to break the Meta. No floodgates, no 10-minutes turns, no pay-to-win. You can unlock cards created by other players too!
Grid Tactics: Duel
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cardburners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardburners.
Grid Tactics: Duel is a competitive card game built on an 8×8 grid. Every move is about positioning, timing, and resource trade-offs. With limited resources, choose when and where to play—set up or apply pressure. Each placement reshapes the board. Win through deckbuilding and precise execution.
The History of Everything
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cardburners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardburners.
A historical TCG in the tradition of Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering. Craft a deck from unlikely combinations of your favourite figures from across history. No grind, no microtransactions; everyone has all the cards. Play with friends: chat freely, share your decks, and compete to be the best!
Battle Hanafuda
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cardburners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardburners.
A strategic two-player card battle based on the traditional Japanese game Hanafuda. Learn as you play and enjoy thrilling “Koi-Koi” duels filled with risk and reward.
Astral Masters
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cardburners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardburners.
Can you make a super mage? Play Astral Masters and explore your strategic thinking in a wide variety of matches with sneaky mages who know secrets. Elaborately themed environments, artful murals and vignettes will surprise you!
Minion Masters
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cardburners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cardburners.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cardburners at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Cardburners on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardburners.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Cardburners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cardburners.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cardburners on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cardburners.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Cardburners on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardburners.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Cardburners on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardburners.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Cardburners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cardburners.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Cardburners on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cardburners.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Cardburners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cardburners.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardburners.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardburners.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cardburners.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardburners.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cardburners.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardburners.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardburners.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardburners.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Cardburners
- How much does Cardburners cost?
- Cardburners is listed on Steam at 8.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Cardburners have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cardburners supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Cardburners?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardburners are The Legacy of Shadow's Bane TCG, Origins TCG, Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
- Who developed Cardburners?
- Cardburners was developed by GrosChevaux.
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 Cardburners.
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