Single-player games like A game about cards
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to A game about cards, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with A game about cards.
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.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with A game about cards.
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!
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Monster Train
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with A game about cards.
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.
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Roguebook
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with A game about cards.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
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Wildfrost
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with A game about cards.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
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DOG WITCH
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with A game about cards.
Dog Witch is a roguelike deckbuilder where your spells are fueled by enchanted dice. Combine over 150 unique items to forge ever-evolving strategies, perfect synergy combos, summon minions, and tackle an endless range of foes so bizarre, they’ll leave your tail wagging in disbelief!
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StarVaders
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with A game about cards.
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.
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Cobalt Core
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with A game about cards.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
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Grim Knight
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
explore dungeons, collect powerful relics, defeat monsters. Hoards of unique monsters with speciel abilities are guarding the dungeons from you. Use and combine a ton of diffrent relics and weapons to get stronger and cut through them and their bosses.
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King Krieg
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with A game about cards.
Combine abilites to create infinite possibilities of spells and decimate thousands of enemies. King Krieg is a top-down arena roguelite where YOU are the KING and you buy mystical items, find powerful guns, and craft new spells
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Thunder Ronin
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Thunder Ronin is a samurai souls-like boss rush. on your way to take revenge on your familty. slash, deflect, and dash through powerful foes. fighting in ancient japan between sakura trees and the glow of the moon.
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Mars vs. Robots
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with A game about cards.
Defend Mars from humans
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Whale Flesh
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A short horror game where you dig through the flesh of a giant whale
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IncreKnight
Single-player alternative to A game about cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with A game about cards.
An Incremental game about Slaying a Dragon.