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Games like Shai’s Gambit

If Shai’s Gambit is your kind of game, the closest matches are INFERIUS, INK ABYSS WALKER and Sin Hunter — 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 Shai’s Gambit: A tarot-themed dark roguelike deck-building game. Create strategic decks with dozens of different tarot cards.

StrategyIndieAdventureWindowsby Aluna Game Studio
Shai’s Gambit — Steam game cover

Players who liked Shai’s Gambit also play

Steam players who put hours into Shai’s Gambit 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. INFERIUS

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Shai’s Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

    Descend through nine dominions of Hell in a first-person horror roguelike deckbuilder. Wield Major Arcana tarot cards, upgrade your deck between deaths, use your lantern to survive the dark, and defeat each ruler before your sanity breaks.

    2027StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. INK ABYSS WALKER

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Shai’s Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

    A first-person, ink-wash deckbuilding roguelike. Descend six floors into the Ink Abyss with a dying lamp: 180 cards, three unlockable walkers, and a three-phase nightmare waiting at the bottom. Death only inks the stone — you come back stronger. But something down there is turning your pages.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Sin Hunter

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Shai’s Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

    A real-time deckbuilding roguelike card game with no mana cost or hand size limit! Join Hell Company as a Sin Hunter, meet four distinct demon girls, build affection through dialogue, and fight alongside them with various weapons to destroy the sins fallen into the abyss!

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Jack Pottwin: House of Odds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Shai’s Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

    Fight your way up a 10-story casino tower to wake from a fever dream in this Roguelike Deckbuilder. Craft your deck, modify runs with lucky coins, and control the Odds. Fuse cards to build high value attacks, trigger poker combos to add powerful combat traits to your cards.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Bibidi Bibidi!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Shai’s Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

    Bibidi Bibidi! is a whimsical deckbuilder where your wizard shouts whatever spell you conjure up. Every card has 3 components that you combine in your spellbook for unique effects. Mix and match incantations like sim-sala-bim and abra-kadabra to zap your way through a dungeon filled with monsters.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Tango Mortal

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Shai’s Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

    A roguelike deckbuilder set in zombie-infested 1925 Buenos Aires. Build your deck, master turn-based combat, evolve through four archetypes, recruit undead companions, collect gear and relics, and survive a deadly journey through the night.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  7. Dream of Corpse Lady

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Shai’s Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

    Cards, battle! Someone woke up the sleeping Corpse Lady... Perhaps, the world needs to pay a price for the awakening... In this game, you will play the role of the awakened Corpse Lady, try various strange construction combinations, discover powerful opponents, and then knock them all down!

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Re:Night

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Shai’s Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

    Re:Night is a strategy game that blends turn based tactics with roguelike deckbuilding. In each run, build your deck, plan your tactics, and experiment with countless 3-character team combinations. Journey to a mysterious town, break the endless cycle of night, and bring dawn back to the world.

    2026StrategyIndieRPG13.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shai’s Gambit.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shai’s Gambit.

    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. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shai’s Gambit.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shai’s Gambit.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shai’s Gambit.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shai’s Gambit.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Shai’s Gambit

What games are most similar to Shai’s Gambit?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shai’s Gambit are INFERIUS, INK ABYSS WALKER, Sin Hunter.
Who developed Shai’s Gambit?
Shai’s Gambit was developed by Aluna Game Studio.

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 Shai’s Gambit.

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