Games like Rogue Waves
If Rogue Waves is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hi-Lo: Card Roguelike, THORNSPELL and Random Dragons — 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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Hi-Lo: Card Roguelike
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Top pick for Rogue Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Waves.
A cozy roguelike deckbuilder where every card flip is a bet. Predict if the next card is Higher, Lower, or Equal, stack jokers, build score combos, survive story-driven events. One deck. Endless decisions. Will you bet it all?
StrategySteam ↗THORNSPELL
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rogue Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Waves.
Embody a magical florist by placing plants strategically in your garden, and watering them to score points. THORNSPELL is a garden-building roguelike where you will create and unleash chains of magical effects, dispelling the corruption spreading through your home.
Random Dragons
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rogue Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Waves.
A chance-based roguelike deckbuilder with silly, chaotic dragons. Spin the roulette wheel to multiply your card effects, manipulate the odds, and unleash ridiculous combos. Build a synergistic deck, outsmart RNG, and climb your way to the Boss Dragons.
Lights, Cards, Action!
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Ranked #4 for Rogue Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Waves.
A theatrical roguelike where the deck you build becomes a game of solitaire. Fight your plushies and cardboard puppets on a handcrafted stage. Unleash wild combos against your enemies, or just throw all your cards and everything explodes
StrategySteam ↗Revolith
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Ranked #5 for Rogue Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Waves.
A roguelike reel-builder where synergies spiral out of control. Build and upgrade your machine, then spin, nudge, and hold your way into absurd combo chains. Every reel matters, every decision compounds - can you beat the house before it breaks you?
StrategySteam ↗Dicevaders
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rogue Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Waves.
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder about leading the ultimate alien invasion. Set in the StarVaders universe, draft and manipulate the dice row, build an unstoppable army, and unleash adrenaline pumping combos through powerful synergies and strategic play.
Gambeat
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rogue Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Waves.
Start with pawns, end with clowns. Build a roster of evolving pieces, stack game-breaking stickers, and chain together absurd high scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder.
Fragment Collapse
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Ranked #8 for Rogue Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Waves.
Fragment Collapse is a satisfying tile matching rogue-like deck-builder where you defragment your hard drive by matching clusters of files. Discover powerful cartridges to upgrade your computer, boost your files with enhancements and build massive combos for file-busting mayhem!
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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 Rogue Waves.
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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 Rogue Waves.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rogue Waves.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rogue Waves.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Rogue Waves.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rogue Waves.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about Rogue Waves
- What games are most similar to Rogue Waves?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rogue Waves are Hi-Lo: Card Roguelike, THORNSPELL, Random Dragons.
- Who developed Rogue Waves?
- Rogue Waves was developed by Pomelo Games.
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