Games like Catena
If Catena is your kind of game, the closest matches are Three Kingdoms Club Manager, Elemental Lands and Chess Nuke — 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 Catena: Catena is a deck-building roguelite where the freedom to customize your allies feels as powerful as programming. Dive into strategic, grid-based battles and create tactics uniquely your own to conquer the mysterious island and defeat the formidable enemies that await.
Players who liked Catena also play
Steam players who put hours into Catena 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.
Three Kingdoms Club Manager
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Top pick for Catena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Catena.
This is a tactical roguelike with grid battles. Recruit heroes, collect gear and passives to build teams. The roguelike mode has Slay the Spire-style maps, 6 classes with unique difficulties. Shop pulls items and rare upgrades. League mode offers 18 factions with football-style ranks.
Elemental Lands
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Catena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catena.
Turn-based tactical card battler with roguelite upgrades. Lead your growing party of heroes to capture objectives in grid-based combat with spell draw combos. Strategically control a campaign map, gather resources & cast siege spells to push back elemental factions overwhelming your lands!
Chess Nuke
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Catena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catena.
RECRUIT, MERGE, and NUKE your board. Build game-breaking pieces and annihilate the enemy in this CHESS Roguelike.
Cave Crusade
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Ranked #4 for Catena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catena.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Knightstones
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Ranked #5 for Catena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catena.
Lead your troops on a war table in this unique roguelite auto-battler. Deploy your decks of elite warriors, trigger devastating chain reactions, and invest your rewards to rebuild your fallen Order. Be ready… or perish in the final battle.
FULL BET - FIGHTING CASINO -
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Ranked #7 for Catena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catena.
A 1v1 turn-based fighting card battle set in a casino!Bet your chips and fight for the right to strike!Luck and strategy, nerve and intellect—everything will be tested ina thrilling battle where the tide can turn in an instant.Outplay your opponent, seize victory, and claim your rewards!
天机：大唐重构
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Ranked #8 for Catena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catena.
Tianji: Reforging Tang is a 2D side-view deckbuilding rogue-like set in an alternate late Tang Dynasty. Play as a modern science student, build Physics and Chemistry decks, break enemy armor, read hidden intents, and reshape the fate of Tang.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Catena.
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.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Catena.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Catena.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Catena.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Catena
- What games are most similar to Catena?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Catena are Three Kingdoms Club Manager, Elemental Lands, Chess Nuke.
- Who developed Catena?
- Catena was developed by tttT.
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 Catena.
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