Games like Dark Cards of Candlewood
If Dark Cards of Candlewood is your kind of game, the closest matches are Secret of Circadia, Evocation and Crystal Core — 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 Dark Cards of Candlewood: A solo collectible card game with the soul of a classic JRPG. Embark on replayable dungeon runs with deceptively deep, two-choice card combat. Draft items for your backpack, master chain attacks, and even crack a few card packs...then save the world from eternal darkness!

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Secret of Circadia
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Top pick for Dark Cards of Candlewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
Secret of Circadia is a unique blend of old school RPGs, Roguelike Deckbuilder mechanics and light City Builder elements where you use the Circadian Rhythm and Time of Day itself to restore a world corrupted by an AI made from humanity's hubris.
Evocation
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Second-strongest match for Dark Cards of Candlewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
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.
Crystal Core
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Third-strongest match for Dark Cards of Candlewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
Crystal Core is a first-person roguelike deckbuilder where every card becomes an action in battle. Build your deck, choose your hero, and descend through the cursed Crystal Caves, battling monsters and growing stronger with every encounter. Can you survive the depths and destroy the Crystal Core?
Dungeon Raid
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Ranked #4 for Dark Cards of Candlewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
Dungeon Raid is an adventure card roguelike. Dive deeper and deeper into the dungeon. Use everything you find to defeat enemies and kill the final boss. Good luck! And try not to die... from hunger.
Deck Lite
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Ranked #5 for Dark Cards of Candlewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
With a retro and minimalist theme, face turn-based battles with deck-building mechanics, where you need to strategize to deal significant damage while still defending yourself. Combining identical cards creates stronger spells.
Blacktower
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Ranked #6 for Dark Cards of Candlewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
Blacktower is a roguelike mini-RPG loosely based on Blackjack. Recruit your party, gather your strength and push your luck to conquer the monstrous denizens of the tower.
Handmancers
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Ranked #7 for Dark Cards of Candlewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
Handmancers is a Rock, Paper, Scissors Roguelite deckbuilder with a first-person twist where clear tactical choices meet deck-building depth. Craft your deck, enhance your cards, equip tricky artifacts and face powerful enemies in strategic fights
Kabuto Park
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Ranked #8 for Dark Cards of Candlewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
Enjoy summer in Kabuto Park! Catch the cutest bugs, train them and win the Summer Beetle Battles Championship in this tiny bug collection game! Upgrade your equipment to find rarer, stronger and shinier little friends.
Free alternatives
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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 Adventure with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Cards of Candlewood.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Dark Cards of Candlewood
- What games are most similar to Dark Cards of Candlewood?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Cards of Candlewood are Secret of Circadia, Evocation, Crystal Core.
- Who developed Dark Cards of Candlewood?
- Dark Cards of Candlewood was developed by Lunoland and published by Joystick Ventures.
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 Dark Cards of Candlewood.
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