Games like Contested Space
If Contested Space is your kind of game, the closest matches are Into the Crypt, SIDExLINES and Star Dice — 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 Contested Space: Build your own fleet in this space roguelike deckbuilder. Pick your faction, draft cards mid-combat from a rotating market, and fight your way through hostile sectors one run at a time. Can you carve a path to victory through Contested Space?
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Steam players who put hours into Contested Space 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.
Into the Crypt
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Top pick for Contested Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Contested Space.
Immerse yourself in solo or co-op first-person deckbuilding where cards are your only weapon. Build complex synergies and use cards to physically unlock doors, chests, and interact with the environment while fighting to survive the crypt's powerful and strange enemies.
SIDExLINES
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Second-strongest match for Contested Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Contested Space.
SIDExLINES is a blackjack roguelike deckbuilder where synergistic side bets and card combos are how you clear rising wagers and survive run-ending pit bosses. Play solo or with friends and try to take down the house.
Star Dice
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Third-strongest match for Contested Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Contested Space.
A turn-based roguelike strategy game about crafting powerful builds through dice customization and relic synergies. Optimize your 3×3 dice grid, trigger massive combo chains, and reach unbelievable scores.
Kingfall
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Ranked #4 for Contested Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Contested Space.
A roguelike deckbuilder where your cards move like chess pieces. Build an army, bless your troops, and conquer the kingdom one battle at a time.
StrategySteam ↗Dungeon Raid
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Ranked #5 for Contested Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Contested Space.
Dungeon Raid is an adventure card roguelike. Dive deeper and deeper into the dungeon. Use everything you find to defeat enemies and kill the final boss. Good luck! And try not to die... from hunger.
Dream Team Supreme
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Ranked #6 for Contested Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Contested Space.
“Lock In” and put an end to the invasion in this co-op, kaiju boss-rush deckbuilder! Two heroic scientists must pilot the cartridge-powered robot Super Supreme and combine their distinct decks to create strategic combinations and defeat giant threats!
StrategySteam ↗Leaf Us Alone
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Ranked #7 for Contested Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Contested Space.
Build a powerful army with synergistic abilities, and prove your strategic mastery in this unique deckbuilding roguelite. Command your forces in battle, triggering outrageous combo to defeat the invading Voidlings threatening to consume the world.
Brewhaha
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Ranked #8 for Contested Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Contested Space.
Brewhaha is a back-alley, co-op bag-builder. The bag, brimming with risk and reward, is your source of power. Pull from it at random to brew volatile potions. Cast spells. Fight. Discover potent synergies. But be warned: if you push your luck too far, you could lose everything.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contested Space.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contested Space.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contested Space.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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 Contested Space.
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 Contested Space.
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 Contested Space.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contested Space.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contested Space.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Frequently asked about Contested Space
- Does Contested Space have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Contested Space supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Contested Space?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Contested Space are Into the Crypt, SIDExLINES, Star Dice.
- Who developed Contested Space?
- Contested Space was developed by Null & Void Games LLC.
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 Contested Space.
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