Games like Cardmare: Descent
If Cardmare: Descent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Etymancy, Cave Crusade and Crit Happens! — 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 Cardmare: Descent: A push-your-luck roguelike deckbuilder. Ten deadly floors, ten-minute runs, nine classes, one question every turn: Will you gain enough gold to buy powerful new cards, or become too greedy and push your luck too far?
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Steam players who put hours into Cardmare: Descent 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.
Etymancy
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Top pick for Cardmare: Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
Etymancy is a dark fantasy roguelike dungeon crawler where every spell is a word. Craft your pile of magic letter tiles, collect strange grimoires to grow stronger, smite enemies, and descend deeper into the Lexicon.
Cave Crusade
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Second-strongest match for Cardmare: Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Crit Happens!
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Third-strongest match for Cardmare: Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
A dice-building roguelike where every turn is decided by a roll of the dice. Equip your dice with special abilities to help take on the enemies that await you! Build up your deck of tools and collect powerful relics in an attempt to push the odds in your favor and conquer this game of chance.
Waystones
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Ranked #4 for Cardmare: Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
All the strategic depth of deckbuilding classics taken to the extreme! Manage combat on a tactical map, pursuing divine boons and avoiding the deadly spread of corruption in Waystones, a turn-based roguelike deckbuilder!
Against All Skies
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Ranked #5 for Cardmare: Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
Uncover the true cost of power in this party-based RPG deckbuilder with roguelite storytelling. Navigate treacherous sky islands, build unique decks for a crew of unlikely heroes and breach the storm to deliver revolution to the skies.
Low Magic They Said
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Ranked #6 for Cardmare: Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where broken builds are a feature, not a bug. Think Slay the Spire meets the unforgiving difficulty of Dark Souls, with Diablo 2's philosophy of letting you discover ridiculously powerful builds yourself. They lied about the magic being low.
Talespinner
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Ranked #7 for Cardmare: Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
Enter a captivating realm woven with the tapestry of Japanese mythology in Talespinner, a deck-building roguelike adventure. As the storyteller, you will guide your chosen hero through an ever-changing narrative shaped by your decisions and deck construction.
Dicealot
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Ranked #8 for Cardmare: Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
Discover a high-stakes roguelike dice-builder where every roll is a risk, every risk is a thrill, and every thrill teeters between triumph and disaster. Set in charmingly chaotic Camelot, chance collides with strategy, mastery dances with madness, and one single roll can rewrite your fate.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardmare: Descent.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Cardmare: Descent
- What games are most similar to Cardmare: Descent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardmare: Descent are Etymancy, Cave Crusade, Crit Happens!.
- Who developed Cardmare: Descent?
- Cardmare: Descent was developed by hugin games.
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