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Games like Carnholt

If Carnholt is your kind of game, the closest matches are Silent Mainland, Bibidi Bibidi! and Montabi — 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.

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About Carnholt: 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 victory comes only to those willing to bargain with ancient powers.

2027StrategyWindowsby Maxime Minard
Carnholt — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Carnholt 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. Silent Mainland

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Carnholt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Carnholt.

    Silent Mainland is a roguelike deckbuilder based on movement and grid mechanics. Players engage in tactical battles on a vast 5x12 battlefield. Facing waves of oncoming monsters, use card-driven movement and positional control to defeat foes in dynamic formations.

    2027StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Bibidi Bibidi!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Carnholt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Carnholt.

    Bibidi Bibidi! is a whimsical deckbuilder where your wizard shouts whatever spell you conjure up. Every card has 3 components that you combine in your spellbook for unique effects. Mix and match incantations like sim-sala-bim and abra-kadabra to zap your way through a dungeon filled with monsters.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Montabi

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Carnholt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Carnholt.

    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!

    2026StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Overbuffed

    WHY THIS

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

    A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder with auto-battler combat. Build your deck, summon creatures, upgrade your weapon, and fight your way through floors filled with ever-deadlier enemies. Every run is different. Every mistake can be fatal.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Hunter's Hand

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Carnholt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Carnholt.

    A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where every clue you uncover wakes the thing hunting you. Build a lethal deck across branching paths, weather corrupting biomes, and raise the Threat - then discover how much of an Ancient's attention you can survive.

    2026StrategyAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  6. Leadbelly

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Carnholt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Carnholt.

    You're a brain in a jar, wired into a war tank, and someone is going to pay. Leadbelly is a hand-drawn roguelike deckbuilder where you build your deck, crush enemy factions, and unravel who stole your body — with a quirky companion riding shotgun.

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  7. Pattern Ring

    WHY THIS

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

    A roguelike alignment deck builder. Where you align your runes to cast spells to defeat enemies. Build your deck and craft your spells to meet the challenges ahead. Feed and grow your companion to aid in battle. Before it's too late, journey to the center of the maze and restore the Pattern Ring.

    StrategySteam ↗
  8. Grimoire of Blanks

    WHY THIS

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

    Every spell is unfinished. The consequences aren’t. Write your own spells by filling cards with words, twisting the same sentence into traps, room-wide attacks, or reckless combos in this 1–4-player roguelite deckbuilder.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

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    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

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  8. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

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Frequently asked about Carnholt

What games are most similar to Carnholt?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Carnholt are Silent Mainland, Bibidi Bibidi!, Montabi.
Who developed Carnholt?
Carnholt was developed by Maxime Minard.

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 Carnholt.

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