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Games like Erase the Deck

If Erase the Deck is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shanghai Office Simulator: Prologue, Absurdocracy and Lawnarchy — 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 Erase the Deck: Fight and explore in this story driven deckbuilder with a scribbling narrator who writes the story as you play. Choose between several cards that can lead to secret endings and decide if you want to follow the narrators instructions or if you want to ignore them.

StrategyCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby Noah Waltman
Erase the Deck — Steam game cover

Players who liked Erase the Deck also play

Steam players who put hours into Erase the Deck 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. Shanghai Office Simulator: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Erase the Deck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Erase the Deck.

    Shanghai Office Simulator; Prologue is a funny storybased card game. Being full of exciting minigames you have to get ready to pave the way for your ongoing career full of snazzy-wiggles, paper-pushers, brown-nosers and clock-jockeys!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Absurdocracy

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Erase the Deck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Erase the Deck.

    Satirical strategy card game with a single-player Campaign and PvP Multiplayer. Absurdocracy is nothing like real life. Your strategy will most certainly make sense, and the best one will indeed win. Discover cards, build tactics and embark on a very serious quest with these totally fake characters.

    2027StrategyCasualSteam ↗
  3. Lawnarchy

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Erase the Deck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Erase the Deck.

    A card game for gardening lunatics: manicure your lawn, trim your hedges – and steam roll over your neighbors' flowers!

    2022StrategyIndieCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bud Masters - Battle Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Erase the Deck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Erase the Deck.

    Bud Masters is an indie weed lifestyle card game. Smoke your opponent's buds from their bud bowl, while defending your own bud bowl. This 'Battle Edition' includes the custom deck builder, card unlock system and more. Full card game. No extra logins, no micro-transactions, no pay-to-win!

    2026StrategyCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Rogue Reigns

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Erase the Deck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Erase the Deck.

    Rogue Reigns is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about trust and sacrifice. Lead selfish antiheroes through a world where death is no more, and something still hunts them. Build synergies that bind them or rivalries that break them. Nobody dies, some are sacrificed, but everybody is condemned.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Watch Me Stream My Mental Breakdown

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Erase the Deck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Erase the Deck.

    Deckbuilder in a Visual Novel form. Embark on an epically misguided quest to streamer stardom! Play games all day, keep your mental health above zero, and prove your father wrong by grinding your way up to a minimum wage... also pay rent. Mental breakdown guaranteed!

    2021StrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. The Killing Stone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Erase the Deck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Erase the Deck.

    Beat the Devil at his own game. The Killing Stone is a deckbuilding card battler wrapped in a 17th century occult horror narrative. Clean the sins of a cursed family by bargaining against a series of demons - and outwitting the Devil himself.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual10.39 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Ash of Gods: The Way

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Erase the Deck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Erase the Deck.

    Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.

    2023StrategyIndie7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Erase the Deck.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Erase the Deck

What games are most similar to Erase the Deck?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Erase the Deck are Shanghai Office Simulator: Prologue, Absurdocracy, Lawnarchy.
Who developed Erase the Deck?
Erase the Deck was developed by Noah Waltman.

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 Erase the Deck.

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