Games like Cardborne
If Cardborne is your kind of game, the closest matches are High Roller, ASCENDANT VEIL and catfish — 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 Cardborne: A grim single-player card roguelike where every draw decides your fate. Fight, heal, or fall to the suits that once ruled the world.
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High Roller
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Top pick for Cardborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardborne.
A roguelite blackjack strategy game where you build joker combos, manage streaks, and outscore escalating bosses across terminal‑style runs.
ASCENDANT VEIL
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cardborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Cardborne.
ASCENDANT VEIL is a sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder where you create powerful card synergies, upgrade your Exosuit with Boosters, and explore mysterious planets filled with ancient ruins, deadly creatures, and cosmic secrets.
catfish
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cardborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardborne.
Fish up adorable enchanted fish, travel with lovable pets, and set off on cozy roguelike adventures filled with gentle surprises. Meet quirky visitors, receive blessings from gods, shape your build, and grow stronger through each warm and whimsical new journey.
核心防线 core defense line
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cardborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardborne.
You are a cloud operator. In the game, to protect the core and resist the continuous virus invasions, you build defenses, construct cards, install creatively designed plugins that provide you with various attack methods, repair external nodes, and at the same time offer you more convenient defense.
SOLITAIRE.EXE: Klondike with a Slot Habit
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Ranked #5 for Cardborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardborne.
The solitaire roguelike that wants your soul. Clock in, clear each deal to make payroll, then install cursed floppy-disk plugins to chain outrageous combos. Survive the performance reviews. Get PROMOTED, or get TERMINATED. Klondike, with a slot habit.
Picaro
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Ranked #6 for Cardborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardborne.
Master the cards in this high-stakes roguelike! Every decision is life-or-death as you navigate treacherous dungeons. Use every card to escape. Strategy, resource management, and nerve-wracking choices await in an endlessly replayable challenge!
Blacktower
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Ranked #7 for Cardborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardborne.
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.
Bloomtide
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cardborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardborne.
A 9×9 board × roguelike deckbuilder × explosive multipliers. Reshape your pool with daily 3-picks. Chain symbol combos through an event queue, and push your build until the numbers break. From the 12-rent campaign to endless score-attack — see how far one good build can go.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardborne.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardborne.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardborne.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cardborne.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cardborne.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardborne.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardborne.
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!
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardborne.
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!
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Frequently asked about Cardborne
- What games are most similar to Cardborne?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardborne are High Roller, ASCENDANT VEIL, catfish.
- Who developed Cardborne?
- Cardborne was developed by Lakeborn studio.
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 Cardborne.
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