Games like Star Realms
If Star Realms is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ascension: Deckbuilding Game, Grid Tactics: Duel and Dragon Evo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive combo gameplay, challenging and competitive. 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 →Star Realms is a free-to-play space-themed strategy game released in 2016 that supports solo play. Players build their decks from a shared pool of cards, employing faction synergies, managing economies, chaining card combos, and mitigating RNG elements through strategic decisions. Reviewers highlight that faction synergies create explosive turns where combinations feel satisfying to execute. Players describe the experience as challenging, competitive, and intense, with a gradual skill curve that keeps them engaged across matches that typically finish in 10 to 20 minutes. The story mode notably alters rules per level, adding variety. The game holds 87% positive across 1,571 Steam reviews and is marked playable on Steam Deck.
About Star Realms: Star Realms is a hugely popular space combat deckbuilding game. Download and play today (note: base set is required to play online) to find out why Star Realms is the winner of SXSW 2014 Board Game of the Year, 7 Golden Geek Awards from BoardGameGeek, and 2 Dice Tower awards!
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Steam players who put hours into Star Realms 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.
Ascension: Deckbuilding Game
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Star Realms.
Top pick for Star Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
Ascension: Deckbuilding Game is now available for your PC and Mac, complete with 9 full expansion decks! Play alone or with friends to battle against the Fallen One for honor and victory. Conceived and designed by Justin Gary, Ascension will provide hours of engaging and strategic game play for enthusiasts and experienced gamers alike.
Grid Tactics: Duel
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Star Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
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.
Dragon Evo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Star Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
A fantasy themed card game and deckbuilder with elements from RPGs and strategy games. Manage resources, utilize strategic placement and use additional building cards, event cards and action cards to win. Single player, online ranked or unranked - play with or without your friends.
Duelyst
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Star Realms.
Ranked #4 for Star Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
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!
MARVEL SNAP
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Star Realms.
Ranked #5 for Star Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
MARVEL SNAP is everything you know and love about Collectible Card Games, but faster… Like WAY faster. You can enjoy all of the high stakes PvP strategy and deck building without having to watch your opponent play solitaire. Now THIS is what free-to-play should be.
Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Star Realms.
Ranked #6 for Star Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
Ignite your spark with Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers! With over 12 million fans, discover what makes Magic: The Gathering the world’s premier trading card game.Become a Planeswalker and travel the planes of existence unleashing a torrent of spells and creatures to devastate your opponents.
Artifact
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Star Realms.
Ranked #7 for Star Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
Artifact now features two games: Artifact Classic, the original Dota 2 trading card game, and Artifact Foundry, a special edition with streamlined gameplay, new cards, new single-player content, and an improved new player experience.
Magic: The Gathering Arena
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Star Realms.
Ranked #8 for Star Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Star Realms
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Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Realms.
Reviewers of Star Realms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!
Ticket to Ride: Classic Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Realms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
CONNECT MORE THAN CITIES! Set off with your friends and family to re(discover) Ticket to Ride: Classic Edition, the classic boardgame. In this railway adventure, you’ll need to be the quickest to link up your cities and reach your destinations.
The Netrunner Awaken1ng
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Realms cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Hack the Matrix. Speedrun, dash and jump from wall to wall on a dynamic electrobass music in procedurally generated levels to steal Datas and escape before the Disconnection() in this parkour Hack 'n' Dash game.
Magic: The Gathering Arena
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Star Realms.
Reviewers of Star Realms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Realms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Realms.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
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Frequently asked about Star Realms
- Does Star Realms run on Steam Deck?
- Star Realms is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Star Realms free to play?
- Yes — Star Realms 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.
- Does Star Realms have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Star Realms supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to Star Realms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Realms are Ascension: Deckbuilding Game, Grid Tactics: Duel, Dragon Evo.
- Who developed Star Realms?
- Star Realms was developed by Wise Wizard 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 Star Realms.
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