Games like Monster Tavern
If Monster Tavern is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vortex Siege, Cards Of Calling and Into the Crypt — 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.
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Vortex Siege
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Top pick for Monster Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monster Tavern.
Defend your city in Vortex Siege, a roguelike collectible card game where you can evolve your cards in unique ways for millions of possibilities. Defeat your enemies in battle, steal their cards, and customize them. Build and defend your town between battles. Collect, customize, and carry on!
Cards Of Calling
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Second-strongest match for Monster Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Monster Tavern.
A roguelike deckbuilder where you command summoned creatures in battle. Build your deck, create powerful synergies, and fight alongside your pack in tactical turn-based combat.
Into the Crypt
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Third-strongest match for Monster Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monster Tavern.
Immerse yourself in a first-person 3D roguelike deckbuilder where cards are your only weapon. Build complex synergies and use cards to physically unlock doors, chests, and interact with the environment while fighting to survive the Crypt's powerful and strange enemies.
Handmancers
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Ranked #4 for Monster Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monster Tavern.
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
My Card Is Better Than Your Card!
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Ranked #5 for Monster Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monster Tavern.
Become the coolest kid of the playground in this playful roguelike deckbuilder. Craft every card yourself with adorable stickers and wow your rivals in tug-of-war card battles full of wonder!
Brawl To The West
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Ranked #6 for Monster Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monster Tavern.
"Join this hilarious auto-battler! Equip gear, grow fruit trees, and tame monsters to build your team. Choose unique characters or battle others in ranked mode—every run is fresh! Weaklings perish; victors take all. Will you go the farthest? Dive in now!"
As We Descend
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Ranked #7 for Monster Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monster Tavern.
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?
Master of Piece
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Ranked #8 for Monster Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monster Tavern.
Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies. Venture through the mysterious medieval realm, facing powerful foes and mighty bosses. Simple turn-based rules hide deep strategic depth—build your ultimate team, master the pieces, and uncover the secrets of the Black fog.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Monster Tavern at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under Monster Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Tavern.
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
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Priced ~44% under Monster Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Tavern.
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
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Priced ~44% under Monster Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monster Tavern.
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
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Priced ~44% under Monster Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Tavern.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Monster Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monster Tavern.
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
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Priced ~44% under Monster Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Monster Tavern.
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
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Priced ~67% under Monster Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monster Tavern.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Monster Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Tavern.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monster Tavern.
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 and Casual with Monster Tavern.
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 Monster Tavern.
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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monster Tavern.
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 Monster Tavern.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Tavern.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monster Tavern.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Tavern.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about Monster Tavern
- How much does Monster Tavern cost?
- Monster Tavern is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Monster Tavern?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monster Tavern are Vortex Siege, Cards Of Calling, Into the Crypt.
- Who developed Monster Tavern?
- Monster Tavern was developed by Toki Games LLC.
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 Monster Tavern.
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