Games like Vortex
If Vortex is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fatal Dopamine/ 致命多巴胺, Magma Karta and 超能力麻将 — 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 Vortex: You just wanted to play a relaxing game of Sudoku, right? Too bad your PC just got infected. VORTEX is a chaotic deck-building roguelike where malware rewrites the rules of the classic puzzle. Build your deck, adapt to the mutating viruses, and survive the digital chaos!
Players who liked Vortex also play
Steam players who put hours into Vortex 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.
Fatal Dopamine/ 致命多巴胺
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Top pick for Vortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Vortex.
Play as a nameless gambler who arrives at a mysterious gambling table, constantly challenging different opponents. At this table, the stakes are not money but life itself.
Magma Karta
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vortex.
Magma Karta is a satisfying strategy card game with roguelite and gambling elements. The rules can switch at any turn, challenging you to adapt your builds and your playstyle.
Castle V Castle
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Ranked #4 for Vortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vortex.
A stylish single player 1v1 card game funded and supported by Slay the Spire's Casey Yano and inspired by browser classic Castle Wars. Build up your castle and knock down your opponent's brick by brick!
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast
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Ranked #5 for Vortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vortex.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Luck Beast is a Touhou Doujin Card-Strategy Game. Using cards across different seasons, join forces with duelists of unique abilities, face various opponents from all over Gensoukyo, and uncover the truth behind the Card Duel Incident!
Master of Piece
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Ranked #6 for Vortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vortex.
Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies. Venture through the mysterious medieval realm, facing powerful foes and mighty bosses. Simple turn-based rules hide deep strategic depth—build your ultimate team, master the pieces, and uncover the secrets of the Black fog.
As We Descend
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Vortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vortex.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Looper Tactics
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Ranked #8 for Vortex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vortex.
Welcome again, wandering soul. Will this be the time of your success? Watch your steps as you advance in this roguelike-deck builder and engage in auto-battler card encounters of increasing difficulty. Get stronger in each battle, rise from the ashes, and break free from endless reincarnation!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vortex.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vortex.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vortex.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vortex.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vortex.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vortex.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vortex.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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Frequently asked about Vortex
- What games are most similar to Vortex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vortex are Fatal Dopamine/ 致命多巴胺, Magma Karta, 超能力麻将.
- Who developed Vortex?
- Vortex was developed by mrt.
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 Vortex.
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