Games like Cardtonia
If Cardtonia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shrike, Vortex Siege and THORNSPELL — 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 Cardtonia: A deckbuilding card game. Summon minions, sacrifice wounded ones to summon stronger minions, use their effects to grow fast, and defeat your opponent within a set number of turns. Keep upgrading your minions, discover Treasures, build unique decks, and aim to reach the top of Diamond Town!
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Shrike
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Top pick for Cardtonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Cardtonia.
Pickpocket rival birds to build a deck. A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder about a tiny bird's grim migration north through a wretched medieval kingdom. Steal abilities, chart your migratory route, survive.
Vortex Siege
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Second-strongest match for Cardtonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardtonia.
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!
THORNSPELL
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Third-strongest match for Cardtonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardtonia.
Embody a magical florist by placing plants strategically in your garden, and watering them to score points. THORNSPELL is a garden-building roguelike where you will create and unleash chains of magical effects, dispelling the corruption spreading through your home.
Fatal Dopamine/ 致命多巴胺
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Ranked #4 for Cardtonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardtonia.
Play as a nameless gambler who arrives at a mysterious gambling table, constantly challenging different opponents. At this table, the stakes are not money but life itself.
Master of Piece
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Ranked #5 for Cardtonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardtonia.
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.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast
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Ranked #6 for Cardtonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardtonia.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Luck Beast is a Touhou Doujin Card-Strategy Game. Using cards across different seasons, join forces with duelists of unique abilities, face various opponents from all over Gensoukyo, and uncover the truth behind the Card Duel Incident!
Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure
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Ranked #7 for Cardtonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Cardtonia.
A Victorian Steampunk Roguelite Deckbuilder. Choose from four characters with unique cards and abilities. Customize your deck and character as you investigate a mysterious plague. Battle corrupted beasts and bosses in turn-based combat to unlock powerful relics and enchanted tarot cards.
Dice & Fold
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Ranked #8 for Cardtonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardtonia.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
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 Cardtonia.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardtonia.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardtonia.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardtonia.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardtonia.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardtonia.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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 Cardtonia.
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!
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- What games are most similar to Cardtonia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardtonia are Shrike, Vortex Siege, THORNSPELL.
- Who developed Cardtonia?
- Cardtonia was developed by AceMako.
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