Games like Tabulo
If Tabulo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cave Crusade, Relief and Spinny Dungeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its builds encourage creative experimentation, modifiers reshape every run and challenging. 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 Tabulo: Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike. Enhance your pieces, purchase powers, and win bonuses from optional challenges, but be careful - your board only has so much room.
Players who liked Tabulo also play
Steam players who put hours into Tabulo 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.
Cave Crusade
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tabulo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Relief
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tabulo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
Relief is a deckbuilding roguelike featuring a post-Journey to the West urban legend setting! In a bizarre world of corrupted deities, harness overpowered tech to enhance your deck and forge custom affixes onto your cards. Combine over 1,000 cards and 300 artifacts to create your ultimate OP build!
Spinny Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, deck building, puzzle and a lighthearted mood with Tabulo.
Third-strongest match for Tabulo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
The slot machine roguelike. Each time you hit the SPIN button monsters creep closer. KILL 'em! LOOT 'em! EAT 'em! Focus on spells or synergies between symbols. Spin to DIE or spin to SURVIVE!
As We Descend
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with Tabulo.
Ranked #4 for Tabulo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with Tabulo.
Ranked #5 for Tabulo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
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.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, deck building and a challenging mood with Tabulo.
Ranked #6 for Tabulo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
RogueJack21
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, roguelite progression, roguelite and a contemplative mood with Tabulo.
Ranked #7 for Tabulo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
RogueJack21 is a Blackjack-inspired deckbuilder where you build and upgrade your deck to battle your opponents. Navigate through procedurally generated casinos and take revenge on The House, the ruthless mafia ruling Noir City that stole everything from you.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, deck building, roguelite and a challenging mood with Tabulo.
Ranked #8 for Tabulo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tabulo at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tabulo on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tabulo.
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 ~50% under Tabulo on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tabulo.
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 ~50% under Tabulo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
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 ~50% under Tabulo on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tabulo.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Tabulo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tabulo.
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 ~50% under Tabulo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tabulo.
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 ~70% under Tabulo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tabulo.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tabulo on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tabulo.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tabulo.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tabulo.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Tabulo.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tabulo.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tabulo.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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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.
Spinny Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, deck building, puzzle and a lighthearted mood with Tabulo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
The slot machine roguelike. Each time you hit the SPIN button monsters creep closer. KILL 'em! LOOT 'em! EAT 'em! Focus on spells or synergies between symbols. Spin to DIE or spin to SURVIVE!
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with Tabulo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
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.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, deck building and a challenging mood with Tabulo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, deck building, roguelite and a challenging mood with Tabulo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tabulo.
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.
Frequently asked about Tabulo
- Does Tabulo run on Steam Deck?
- Tabulo is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Tabulo cost?
- Tabulo is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tabulo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tabulo are Cave Crusade, Relief, Spinny Dungeon.
- Who developed Tabulo?
- Tabulo was developed by Noah Games.
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