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Games like Heart Duels

If Heart Duels is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wyldernook, Attack on Hex Island and Slimestone — 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 Heart Duels: Join a faction and discover Erisa. Defeat over 80 duelists to unlock cards, stories, quests, and lore. Every duel requires tactics and positioning, not just power. Every faction has unique cards and stories. Build decks from over 120 cards, then challenge friends in 1v1 PvP with all cards unlocked.

StrategyIndieRPGWindowsby Encased Heart
Heart Duels — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Heart Duels 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. Wyldernook

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Heart Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heart Duels.

    Build a deck around a powerful Champion and outsmart up to 3 opponents in a free multiplayer trading card game.

    2026StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Attack on Hex Island

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Heart Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heart Duels.

    A cute and approachable turn-based deck builder/card battler that combines the battle systems from Tetra Master/Triple Triad and Pokémon. Collect, upgrade, and customize your party to strategically defeat your opponents and save them from the attack on Hex Island.

    2024StrategyRPGCasual4.49 USDSteam ↗
  3. Slimestone

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Heart Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heart Duels.

    Slimestone is a coop deck building adventure cardbattler about a tiny slime in a big world. Absorb defeated enemies, gain their powers, and use them to explore hand crafted dungeons filled with traps and treasures.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Dead Star Prison

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Heart Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heart Duels.

    Dead Star Prison is a unique combination of Deck Building and strategy based Auto-Battling. Build you deck of prisoners and be sure to place them in the most strategic position on the battleground to conquer your enemies in either PVP mode or the single player story mode.

    2027StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  5. Discovery Of Magic

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Heart Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heart Duels.

    Feel like a true wizard in this free-to-play VR strategy RPG. Weave spells with your wand, summon fantastic creatures in simultaneous turn-based duels, and socialize with classmates across school grounds. Unlock hundreds of spells and cosmetics as you progress to become a master spell weaver.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Grim Siege

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Heart Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heart Duels.

    Grim Siege is a 1v1 dark-fantasy card duel. Raise your own tower or tear down your enemy's. Six classes and a deep status system turn every turn into a puzzle of combos and counterplay. Take on the AI or other players in quick matches and ranked battles.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Ariokan - create your cards, break the Meta

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Heart Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heart Duels.

    Ariokan is a highly interactive, strategically-deep competitive card game with a twist: you can create new cards, and use them to build crazy combos around Gods and Legends to break the Meta. No floodgates, no 10-minutes turns, no pay-to-win. You can unlock cards created by other players too!

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Kings Call

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Heart Duels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heart Duels.

    Collect an array of creature and skill cards through quests, upgrades and trading, and craft your ultimate deck by choosing your favorite cards and prepare for epic battles. Dive into the exhilaration of strategic gameplay and let your inner tactician shine to outsmart your opponents!

    2023StrategyMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart Duels.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart Duels.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Heart Duels.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart Duels.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Heart Duels.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Heart Duels.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart Duels.

    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.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Heart Duels

Does Heart Duels have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Heart Duels supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Heart Duels?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heart Duels are Wyldernook, Attack on Hex Island, Slimestone.
Who developed Heart Duels?
Heart Duels was developed by Encased Heart.

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 Heart Duels.

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