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Games like Smash Up

If Smash Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mystic Vale, Talisman: Digital Classic Edition and Chaos Combat Chess — 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.

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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!

2016Strategy6.99 USDWindowsby Nomad Games
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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.

  1. 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.

    2019StrategyIndie1.94 USDSteam ↗
  2. Talisman: Digital Classic Edition

    WHY THIS

    Second-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!

    2014StrategyIndieRPG6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Chaos Combat Chess

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Smash Up.

    Third-strongest match 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!

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  4. Splendor

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.

    The OFFICIAL digital adaptation of the best-selling board game. ** ONLINE MULTIPLAYER NOW AVAILABLE !!! **

    2015StrategyCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Wingspan

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Smash Up.

    Ranked #5 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.

    2020StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gremlins, Inc.

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Smash Up.

    Ranked #6 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.

    2016StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Through the Ages

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Smash Up.

    Ranked #7 for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.

    Legendary board game classic from award winning designer Vlaada Chvátil

    2018StrategyIndie15.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Dead Exit

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Smash Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.

    Dead Exit is an undead apocalypse, base management, card game. Play alone, with friends, or against friends. Just play smart and make sure you get the resources you need to escape the city.

    2017StrategyCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Smash Up at current Steam store prices.

  1. 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.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Hexcells

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.

    Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

    2014StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. 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.

    2014StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Lords of the Realm II

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Smash Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.

    The great Lords of England have their eyes on the the English throne! Muster an army and overrun your enemies' castles in this classic, nail-biting strategy game that blends turn-based and real-time gameplay.

    2015StrategyRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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.

    2020StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2015StrategyRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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!

    2016StrategyFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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?

    2018StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2023StrategyAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  7. 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!

    2024StrategyIndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Hell Shuffle

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smash Up.

    A driving mix of rogue-like card deckbuilder and turn-based strategic combat. Join one of the three factions, craft a unique deck, set up a squad, use a variety of talents, trinkets, items, and a perk tree to wipe out the debauched angelic Protectors again and again.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Nomad Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Nomad Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. 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!

    2014StrategyIndieRPG6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2014ActionSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2019StrategyIndie1.94 USDSteam ↗
  4. 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.

    2018Strategy6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2016Strategy6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2019StrategyCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. 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?

    2020StrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    2024StrategyAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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, Talisman: Digital Classic Edition, Chaos Combat Chess.
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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