Games like Cheat Death
If Cheat Death is your kind of game, the closest matches are Par Under Review, SORTALIS and 6 Ways To 7 — 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 Cheat Death: Play dice poker with the Grim Reaper in a dark strategic roguelite. Build powerful poker hands from cursed dice, stack upgrades, rig the odds, sabotage Death, and survive deadly mini-games with your life on the line.
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Par Under Review
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cheat Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
During golf’s Golden Age in the 1920s and 1930s, hickory gives way to steel and the modern bag takes shape. Draft your equipment and play across course blueprints in a turn-based golf roguelike. Cards and dice model the golfer while you handle the strategy, the probabilities and the pursuit of par.
SORTALIS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cheat Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
A pixel-art dice roguelike. Roll six honest dice, then spend eight Antes engraving their faces, swapping their materials and stacking Charms into a machine that cannot lose - while the House keeps changing the rules. Push your luck. Break the math.
6 Ways To 7
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cheat Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
6 Ways to 7 is a high-stakes dice roguelite inspired by classic craps! Build powerful chip combos, customize your dice, and push your luck against the house as every roll brings you closer to victory (Or defeat!)
Ludaro
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cheat Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
Ludaro is a turn-based Roguelite where the board is your battlefield. Strategically traverse ever-changing board with a unique dice system, outsmart deadly rivals, forge powerful Spirit Card combos, and bend fate as you uncover the secrets of a mysterious world and battle toward fearsome enemies.
Prerolled
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cheat Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
Pack boxes of pre-rolled dice and sell them to silly clients with funky requests in this roguelike-puzzle mix up. Each die has unique effects based on the positioning of other dice around them, so combo dice together, overcharge shamelessly and maybe you'll be able to cover the rent this week!
Die Severed
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cheat Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
Die Severed is a gambling roguelike where each lost round costs you one finger. Stack your dice bag with weighted dice, collect run defining abilities, and push your luck to pay your debt and walk out in one piece. More or less.
Deadhand Theater
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cheat Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
A dark, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where poker hands are your weapons and your own puppet body is fair game to sacrifice. Rip off a limb for a desperate edge, refine your deck, and survive one more fight.
Corrupted Dice
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cheat Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
Corrupted Dice is a dice-based roguelite where every die eventually breaks. Build a pool of unique dice, reach escalating score targets, discover new unlocks, play risky betting minigames, and push Heat and Corruption to the limit.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cheat Death at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Cheat Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cheat Death.
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 ~49% under Cheat Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cheat Death.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cheat Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cheat Death.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Cheat Death on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cheat Death.
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 ~49% under Cheat Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cheat Death.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cheat Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cheat Death.
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 ~49% under Cheat Death on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cheat Death.
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 Cheat Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cheat Death.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cheat Death.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cheat Death.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cheat Death.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cheat Death.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cheat Death.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cheat Death.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cheat Death.
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!
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Frequently asked about Cheat Death
- Does Cheat Death run on Steam Deck?
- Cheat Death 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 Cheat Death cost?
- Cheat Death is listed on Steam at 9.87 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cheat Death?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cheat Death are Par Under Review, SORTALIS, 6 Ways To 7.
- Who developed Cheat Death?
- Cheat Death was developed by GG Studio and published by Polden Publishing.
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 Cheat Death.
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