Games like Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta
If Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grid Tactics: Duel, Stormbound and Fairtravel Battle CCG — 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 Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta: Ariokan is a highly interactive, strategically-deep competitive card game with a twist: you can create new cards, and use them to build crazy combos around Gods and Legends to break the Meta. No floodgates, no 10-minutes turns, no pay-to-win. You can unlock cards created by other players too!
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Grid Tactics: Duel
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Top pick for Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Grid Tactics: Duel is a competitive card game built on an 8×8 grid. Every move is about positioning, timing, and resource trade-offs. With limited resources, choose when and where to play—set up or apply pressure. Each placement reshapes the board. Win through deckbuilding and precise execution.
Stormbound
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Second-strongest match for Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Cards and chess collide in Stormbound. Turn-based tactical gameplay, collecting cards and beautiful 2D Art. Level up your army to conquer the ladder.
Fairtravel Battle CCG
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Third-strongest match for Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Let your magic run wild in this fast-paced fantasy card game, with a unique resource system, back-and-forth battles, moddable cards and multiple unique game modes. Play alone or with up to four players online, without needing to pay for new cards.
Infinity Wars: Animated Trading Card Game
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Ranked #4 for Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Outplay your opponent with simultaneous turns and commander-driven deck-building in a fully free-to-play PvP experience. Build your deck from 1000+ cards across 8 unique factions, and face opponents on a truly level playing field. In Infinity Wars, skill is the only factor that determines victory!
Duelyst
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Ranked #5 for Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
The depth of CCG meets the strategy of tabletop gaming in Duelyst! Every choice matters, from your General and deck to positioning on the 9x5 battleboard. Competitive head-to-head turn-based battles at its best!
Isle of Swaps
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Ranked #6 for Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Grab your cards, it's time to swap! Battle your school pals in this roguelite deckbuilder where you'll trade for new cards when you win defeat them and rip open booster packs looking for rare cards. Conquer everyones dungeon decks to become Critter Champion of the Playground!
Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition (Classic)
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Ranked #7 for Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Lead your fighters to Glory in the ultimate PvP dice-and-cards strategy combat game. Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition pits mighty warbands against one another in an eternal battle for glory in the realms of the Age of Sigmar.
KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
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Ranked #8 for Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
KARDS, The World War II Card Game, combines traditional CCG gameplay with innovative mechanics inspired by classic strategy games and real battlefield tactics. Take command and challenge other players in grand-scale warfare on the ground, air, or seas.
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The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
NERTS! Online
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Wheelchair Wizards
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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Frequently asked about Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta
- Does Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta are Grid Tactics: Duel, Stormbound, Fairtravel Battle CCG.
- Who developed Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta?
- Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta was developed by Fatum Games SL.
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