Games like Leadbelly
If Leadbelly is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fathom Reach, Nightpark Journal and Crown Control — 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 Leadbelly: You're a brain in a jar, wired into a war tank, and someone is going to pay. Leadbelly is a hand-drawn roguelike deckbuilder where you build your deck, crush enemy factions, and unravel who stole your body — with a quirky companion riding shotgun.
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Steam players who put hours into Leadbelly 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.
Fathom Reach
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Top pick for Leadbelly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Leadbelly.
A roguelike deckbuilder in a drowned world. Play cards each turn to fight through chambers in a stranger's underwater home. Choose your reward and push deeper, or haul the loot home early. Upgrade your deck, build a home base real players dive against, crush the cores and climb the leaderboards.
Nightpark Journal
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Second-strongest match for Leadbelly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Leadbelly.
A dreamcore roguelike deck builder. Explore the mysterious Nightpark as three youths, each with distinct abilities. Build unique decks for each of them, defeat enemy adults and fiends, and uncover hidden secrets.
Crown Control
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Third-strongest match for Leadbelly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Leadbelly.
RPG Roguelike Deckbuilder: play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Choose your character, level up your class, collect and play cards to attack, defend, heal, summon allies, place traps, and alter the terrain in turn-based isometric battles to overthrow a tyrant king.
GO, STOP
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Ranked #4 for Leadbelly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Leadbelly.
It's 1999. You owe a Busan loan shark ₩200,000,000, and the only thing you're good at is Go-Stop — Korea's flower-card game. Match cards, stack multipliers, call "Go" to double it all. Interest is due every third night. Miss it and they send someone.
Rogue Reigns
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Ranked #5 for Leadbelly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Leadbelly.
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.
Pattern Ring
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Ranked #6 for Leadbelly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Leadbelly.
A roguelike alignment deck builder. Where you align your runes to cast spells to defeat enemies. Build your deck and craft your spells to meet the challenges ahead. Feed and grow your companion to aid in battle. Before it's too late, journey to the center of the maze and restore the Pattern Ring.
StrategySteam ↗Apawcalypse: Corrupted Brain
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Ranked #7 for Leadbelly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Leadbelly.
Lead a team of three animal survivors in a roguelike deckbuilder where every character has their own deck. Coordinate a shared Action Point pool, Intercept attacks to protect allies, and build powerful team synergies to survive the corruption.
Carnholt
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Ranked #8 for Leadbelly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Leadbelly.
Craft a deck of wild creatures and powerful spells, fight in tactical battles, and slay a God that refused death. Carnholt is a deckbuilding roguelike where victory comes only to those willing to bargain with ancient powers.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Leadbelly.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Leadbelly.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Leadbelly.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Leadbelly.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Leadbelly.
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Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Leadbelly.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Leadbelly.
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!
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Frequently asked about Leadbelly
- What games are most similar to Leadbelly?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Leadbelly are Fathom Reach, Nightpark Journal, Crown Control.
- Who developed Leadbelly?
- Leadbelly was developed by Uncanny Games.
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 Leadbelly.
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