Games like Cards and Fables
If Cards and Fables is your kind of game, the closest matches are Card Artisan, Evocation and NeoRunners — 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 Cards and Fables: Cards and Fables is a deck-builder with a strong roguelite component: strengthen your deck, create synergies, and face powerful enemies.
Players who liked Cards and Fables also play
Steam players who put hours into Cards and Fables 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.
Card Artisan
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Top pick for Cards and Fables fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards and Fables.
Card Artisan is a card battler with RPG and roguelike elements and an emphasis in random generation that allows you to not only create your own deck but also create and use your own custom cards!
Evocation
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Second-strongest match for Cards and Fables fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards and Fables.
Evocation is a card game with unique gameplay, high interactivity, and deep mechanics. It includes a roguelike PvE mode and an online PvP mode without in-app purchases. Draw and maintain your magical circle, freely trade and craft equipment, and purge the heretics along the pilgrimage path.
NeoRunners
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Third-strongest match for Cards and Fables fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards and Fables.
NeoRunners is a playable cyberpunk comic and roguelite deckbuilder. Combine 🔥 Burn, ⚡ Volt, and 💧 Flow into explosive reactions, then build relationships that unlock new cards, modifications, services, and story paths.
Topdeck Duel
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Ranked #4 for Cards and Fables fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards and Fables.
An incremental card roguelike where every victory expands your deck! Position cards for powerful buffs, claim enemy cards, and merge them to increase their rarity. Accumulate gold for permanent meta-upgrades between runs and master the Topdeck Duel!
Qilin
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Ranked #5 for Cards and Fables fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards and Fables.
An ordinary martial arts student stumbles upon divine Qilin weapons and begins his rise to greatness. Collect and combine blades, spears, swords, and axes, empower them with manuals, and deal massive damage. Use Qilin weapons wisely to turn the tide!
Crown of Petals
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Ranked #6 for Cards and Fables fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cards and Fables.
A unique fusion of deckbuilding and grand strategy! Command 6 distinct races across procedurally generated lands. Construct tactical fortresses, draft powerful cards, and outmaneuver rival nations through dynamic diplomacy or brutal warfare to claim the Crown!
StrategySteam ↗Cubilete
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Ranked #7 for Cards and Fables fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cards and Fables.
A dice roguelike where skill beats the roll. In Cubilete your deck is made of die faces: collect new ones, bend each roll your way, and stack poker combos that turn a rough start into a winning hand. Built on a traditional Spanish dice game.
StrategySteam ↗Soul Card Duel
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Ranked #8 for Cards and Fables fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cards and Fables.
A deckbuilder where position and direction make combats more tactical. Flank enemies with 8 attack directions and combine cards to win in any situation. Explore procedural maps, create decks and armor to customize your hero, and forge your legend in the region's grand tournament.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards and Fables.
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?
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 Cards and Fables.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards and Fables.
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.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards and Fables.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards and Fables.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cards and Fables.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Frequently asked about Cards and Fables
- What games are most similar to Cards and Fables?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cards and Fables are Card Artisan, Evocation, NeoRunners.
- Who developed Cards and Fables?
- Cards and Fables was developed by dakenite.
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 Cards and Fables.
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