Games like Encounter: The Lost Cards
If Encounter: The Lost Cards is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fallen Isekai, 难蚌尖塔 and Elemental Lands — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Encounter: The Lost Cards: The unhinged roguelike for the tactically obsessed. Forget maps—your journey is a deck of Tarot cards you build on the fly. Manage a tight inventory, chain questionable combos, and watch your gear shatter. Got unlucky? The virtuous can resurrect; the sinful, however...
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Fallen Isekai
WHY THIS
Top pick for Encounter: The Lost Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Fallen Isekai is a three-lane tactical card roguelike. Play as Lin Mo, recruit heroes from five races, build your deck, command units across three lanes, conquer the tower, and find a way back to reality.
难蚌尖塔
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Encounter: The Lost Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
《难蚌尖塔》是一款类《杀戮尖塔》的肉鸽卡牌构筑游戏。在这诡异且荒诞的塔中，互联网君子六艺、以及各种名场面都变成了蕴含强大力量的卡牌，你将构建卡组、击败敌人，在不断轮回的冒险中逐步揭开迷雾后的秘密。
Elemental Lands
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Encounter: The Lost Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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!
Oh!Ware
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Encounter: The Lost Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Place marbles into pits, chaining their movement across a living board to trigger captures and effects. Every pit is a choice, and every marble a desperate prayer
StrategySteam ↗Age of Legacy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Encounter: The Lost Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Age of Legacy is an unforgiving roguelike RPG with intense turn-based 1v1 combat. Choose a class to define your tactical approach, and hunt unique equipment and powerful runestones. Survival is key, because death means game over!
Iron Resolution
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Encounter: The Lost Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Command a mercenary company in a brutal tactical RPG where death is permanent, morale breaks, and injuries leave a lasting scar. Master multiple classes + varying terrain across 10 campaign levels, 100+ Rogue mode, or duel with friends in PvP. The Ironlands need a leader. Will you answer the call?
Escape to Ariah
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Encounter: The Lost Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Strategically use runes on a mystical grid in this tactical roguelike deckbuilder. Choose a character with unique abilities and runes for a variety of build ideas. Can you survive your quest to escape to Ariah?
One More Try: Prologue
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Encounter: The Lost Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Fight your way through the lands of the magical kingdom in this turn-based, roguelike deck builder game. Fight your enemies by combining powerful poker combinations, enhance their effects, endow them with new properties, find magical relics and choose new classes for your hero.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Encounter: The Lost Cards at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Encounter: The Lost Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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 ~52% under Encounter: The Lost Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Encounter: The Lost Cards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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 ~52% under Encounter: The Lost Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Encounter: The Lost Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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 ~52% under Encounter: The Lost Cards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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 ~71% under Encounter: The Lost Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Encounter: The Lost Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Encounter: The Lost Cards
- How much does Encounter: The Lost Cards cost?
- Encounter: The Lost Cards is listed on Steam at 10.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Encounter: The Lost Cards?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Encounter: The Lost Cards are Fallen Isekai, 难蚌尖塔, Elemental Lands.
- Who developed Encounter: The Lost Cards?
- Encounter: The Lost Cards was developed by Salvatore Grosso and published by Encounter GG.
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