Games like Once Upon A Card
If Once Upon A Card is your kind of game, the closest matches are NOMIA, Leaf Us Alone and Carnholt — 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 Once Upon A Card: Help a royal child find their way through their dreams! Use cards to build paths, create combos, and adapt your strategy as each run brings new challenges and bosses. Will you let the nightmares take over?

Players who liked Once Upon A Card also play
Steam players who put hours into Once Upon A Card also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
NOMIA
WHY THIS
Top pick for Once Upon A Card fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Once Upon A Card.
Coordinate two heroes in this story-rich tactics roguelike. Set up combos with your reliable Action cards, execute masterstrokes by drawing the right Gambit cards, and blast monsters off cliffs. Chase salvation with cloth and steel. Chart the path through a shattered dream.
Leaf Us Alone
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Once Upon A Card fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Once Upon A Card.
Build a powerful army with synergistic abilities, and prove your strategic mastery in this unique deckbuilding roguelite. Command your forces in battle, triggering outrageous combo to defeat the invading Voidlings threatening to consume the world.
Carnholt
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Once Upon A Card fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Once Upon A Card.
Craft a deck of wild creatures and powerful spells, fight in tactical battles, and slay a God that refused death. Carnholt is a deckbuilding roguelike where you must bind your soul to an ancient beast and harness the corpses of the dead to achieve victory.
Cards of the Abyss
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Once Upon A Card fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Once Upon A Card.
Cards of the Abyss is a roguelike deckbuilder where movement is your only defense. Move on a grid, dodge enemy attacks, trigger countless chain-reactions and unleash overpowered card combos as you dive deeper into the Abyss.
Hell Deck
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Ranked #5 for Once Upon A Card fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Once Upon A Card.
Collect units and build powerful synergies on a restricted grid in Hell Deck, a dark roguelike deckbuilder defense game. Construct your own bizarre, twisted ecosystem through a brutal cycle of predation and sacrifice, and defend hell from the holy swarm
Montabi
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Once Upon A Card fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Once Upon A Card.
Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi in this Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!
Become the Moon
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Ranked #7 for Once Upon A Card fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Once Upon A Card.
Become the Moon is a challenging, deckbuilding auto battler. Choose from 10 unique characters, each with their own distinct playstyles. Assemble a team of powerful minions & cast cosmic spells where every run takes you one step closer to the moon.
Slay the Spire 2
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Ranked #8 for Once Upon A Card fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Once Upon A Card.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
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WOBBLY HEIST
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Another title from ISART DIGITAL, the studio behind Once Upon A Card. Shares Strategy and Indie with Once Upon A Card.
Take control of three capybaras infiltrating a fashion event in this stealth puzzle game. Stack under a disguise to blend in among humans, split up to solve puzzles, avoid suspicion, and steal a legendary jewel. But be careful: one wrong move could reveal what’s really under the coat!
The Name I Wear
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Another title from ISART DIGITAL, the studio behind Once Upon A Card. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Once Upon A Card.
In an ancient riad once used as the base of a spy network, retrace the events and people tied to a forgotten tragedy. Your weapon? Names. Find them, write them, become them.
Echoes of Above
WHY THIS
Another title from ISART DIGITAL, the studio behind Once Upon A Card. Shares Free To Play with Once Upon A Card.
An action game where you strike back — literally. Hit enemy projectiles mid-air, deflect their force and use the environment to survive. Master precision combat across two difficulty modes in a mythical world abandoned by the gods. Every shot fired at you is a weapon waiting to be reclaimed.
Off Gridders
WHY THIS
Another title from ISART DIGITAL, the studio behind Once Upon A Card. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Once Upon A Card.
Crush the competition in this fast-paced team sport where every second counts! Slide, run, catch the ball and face off the opposing team in an abandoned arena to score maximum points in high energy matches!
Kinetic TwinZ
WHY THIS
Another title from ISART DIGITAL, the studio behind Once Upon A Card. Shares Free To Play with Once Upon A Card.
In this Motion Control party game, turn volleyball into an act of defiance! Seize your Joy-Cons, dodge powerful attacks, and coordinate with your duo to defeat the "Anti-Fun" police.
Haunt Out
WHY THIS
Another title from ISART DIGITAL, the studio behind Once Upon A Card. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Once Upon A Card.
A voodoo ritual has gone wrong… Trapped in a haunted Louisiana mansion, play as both a voodoo priest and a mischievous spirit. Use powerful magic to hunt or escape, set traps, and wreak havoc in a tense, strategic VR duel
The Light that Binds Us
WHY THIS
Another title from ISART DIGITAL, the studio behind Once Upon A Card. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Once Upon A Card.
Dive into The Light That Binds Us, a puzzle-adventure game where light shapes reality. Play as Yuè, a tormented soul, accompanied by her faithful protector, Yún. Cast shadows into paths, reshape the world to solve puzzles, explore breathtaking environments, and uncover the past that binds you!
Frequently asked about Once Upon A Card
- Is Once Upon A Card free to play?
- Yes — Once Upon A Card is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Once Upon A Card?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Once Upon A Card are NOMIA, Leaf Us Alone, Carnholt.
- Who developed Once Upon A Card?
- Once Upon A Card was developed by ISART DIGITAL.
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 Once Upon A Card.
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