Games like Kaiten
If Kaiten is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forestygian, Monster Train and StarVaders — 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 Kaiten: Roguelike Tactical-Strategy Battle Game. Spin the Wheel, Make Your Move Based on the Result! Build Your Deck and Strengthen Your Team. Defeat Your Opponents and Unlock Special Abilities.
Players who liked Kaiten also play
Steam players who put hours into Kaiten 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.
Forestygian
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kaiten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
Tactical Roguelike Deckbuilder with ability-based combat, fueled by card synergies. Build a powerful deck to support your hero. Use abilities to wipe out hordes of enemies. Discover powerful combos within the near-endless variety of composite cards.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kaiten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kaiten.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kaiten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Monster Train 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Kaiten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Kaiten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Kaiten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Right and Down
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Kaiten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
A deep roguelike and card game that is played using only two buttons: Right and Down! Choose your hero and explore randomly generated card dungeons, gather powerful artifacts to get new abilities, and fight against mighty enemies! Will you make it to level 50?
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Kaiten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kaiten at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Kaiten on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Kaiten.
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 ~67% under Kaiten on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Kaiten.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Kaiten on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kaiten.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kaiten on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kaiten.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Kaiten on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Kaiten on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Kaiten on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
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 ~67% under Kaiten on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Kaiten.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Kaiten.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
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 and Indie with Kaiten.
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!
D1AL-ogue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Kaiten.
Become an android repair technician in a cyberpunk city where the sun never rises. Rotate the unique circular puzzle 'D1AL' and merge modules to fix their broken bodies and hearts. Your precise repair is the conversation starter. Turn the dial and listen to their stories.
Liquidators
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kaiten.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Crab Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Kaiten.
Crab Game is a First-Person Multiplayer game where you play through several different minigames based on children's games, until only one player stands victorious.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Monster Train 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kaiten.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Frequently asked about Kaiten
- How much does Kaiten cost?
- Kaiten is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kaiten?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kaiten are Forestygian, Monster Train, StarVaders.
- Who developed Kaiten?
- Kaiten was developed by Fragilent.
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 Kaiten.
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