Games like Smash Up
If Smash Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mystic Vale, Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game and Talisman: Digital Classic Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its competitive, funny and lighthearted. 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 Smash Up: Smash Up is the digital adaptation of the award-winning (and totally awesome) card game. Smash together two factions, and destroy your opponent with a wild and wacky combination of pirates, nerds, zombies, wizards and more!
Players who liked Smash Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Smash Up 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.
Mystic Vale
WHY THIS
Top pick for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Are you ready to lead your druidic clan and cleanse the Valley of Life? Mystic Vale is a stunning digital version of the Origins award-winning AEG card game. Debuting the unique Card Crafting System, players take turns building powerful combos in order to stop the curse. Play online or local hotseat.
Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Star Squadrons is a fast-paced, tactical sci-fi card game WITHOUT MANA, where you deploy cards face down, interact nonstop, and win through clever location control. Secure your Founder status ahead of the Kickstarter in late 2026 / early 2027! Play the browser-based Early Alpha now!
Talisman: Digital Classic Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
The complete 4th Edition experience of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board!
100+ Bored Games
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Mini games you can play with your friends or with bots during any time!
Chaos Combat Chess
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Smash Up.
Ranked #5 for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Welcome to Chaos Combat Chess, a competitive 8v8 auto chess battle royale!
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Smash Up.
Ranked #7 for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Gremlins, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Smash Up.
Ranked #8 for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Smash Up at current Steam store prices.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Tower Wizard
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Master Healer Kale with useless party
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
A short incremental game where you play as a Healer in a party. Your main job is to keep your party alive. Upgrade 200+ skills in a skill tree, from healing to party damage. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
Hexcells Plus
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
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.
Card Hunter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.
Star Realms
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
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!
Tactical Monsters Rumble Arena
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Are you ready to RUMMMBLE?
Prismata
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
A perfect-information strategy game inspired by RTS, deckbuilders, and board games. Choose from three distinct technology classes and outwit your foes by snowballing your starting resources into a powerful cybernetic army. ABSOLUTELY NO PAY-TO-WIN.
Pirate101
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Assemble your ragtag crew and prepare to plunder the skyways in search of the legendary map to El Dorado! Danger lurks around every corner as you outsmart clockwork soldiers, uncover hidden mysteries, and unleash powerful combos in this pirate turn-based tactics MMORPG.
Chess for idiots
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
The first intellectually non-discriminatory chess variant. Instead of thinking, just move your pieces in one of the many absurd ways!
Wyldernook
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Build a deck around a powerful Champion and outsmart up to 3 opponents in a free multiplayer trading card game.
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More from Nomad Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Nomad Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Talisman: Digital Classic Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Smash Up. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
The complete 4th Edition experience of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board!
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Smash Up.
Jump into the rich world of Warhammer 40,000 in this fast paced 3rd person action shooter. As one of the Emperor's Elite Space Marines you have been sent on a vital mission to assault a gigantic Ork Kroozer headed for an Imperial Forge World.
Mystic Vale
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Smash Up. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Are you ready to lead your druidic clan and cleanse the Valley of Life? Mystic Vale is a stunning digital version of the Origins award-winning AEG card game. Debuting the unique Card Crafting System, players take turns building powerful combos in order to stop the curse. Play online or local hotseat.
Love Letter
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Smash Up.
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Smash Up. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
The princess has several suitors... but which of them will manage to charm her? Choose a strategy, be it through bluffing or power of deduction, to win your beloved's heart. The official adaptation of the renowned card game.
Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic)
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Smash Up. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Talisman: The Horus Heresy is a digital board game based on the Talisman rule system and set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, during the cataclysmic events of the Horus Heresy.
Cat Lady - The Card Game
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Smash Up.
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Smash Up. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Cat Lady - The Card Game is a fun card-drafting game in which players are Cat Ladies, trying to tempt cats into their cattery using food, toys, costumes and more. Based on the much-loved card game by AEG.
Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Smash Up. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
Dracula is ready to take over Europe and only four iconic vampire hunters can stop him, in this digital adaptation of the classic board game of deduction and gothic horror. Play locally with friends or with up to five players online. Will you be the hunter or the hunted?
Talisman: Digital 5th Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Smash Up.
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Smash Up. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.
The definitive, most customisable version of Talisman, ever. Discover a world where every journey is a fresh experience in the ultimate digital sandbox for this iconic fantasy adventure board game. This is your Talisman, your rules.
Frequently asked about Smash Up
- How much does Smash Up cost?
- Smash Up is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Smash Up have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Smash Up supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Smash Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Smash Up are Mystic Vale, Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game, Talisman: Digital Classic Edition.
- Who developed Smash Up?
- Smash Up was developed by Nomad Games.
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 Smash Up.
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