Games like Excava
If Excava is your kind of game, the closest matches are Culdcept The First, Slimestone and The History of Everything — 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 Excava: Uncover forgotten relics and ancient creatures as you outsmart your opponent in this strategic archaeological card game. Excava, where the past is your greatest weapon.
Players who liked Excava also play
Steam players who put hours into Excava 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.
Culdcept The First
WHY THIS
Top pick for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Excava.
The pinnacle of board game and card game fusion is back.
Slimestone
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
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.
The History of Everything
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
A historical TCG in the tradition of Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering. Craft a deck from unlikely combinations of your favourite figures from across history. No grind, no microtransactions; everyone has all the cards. Play with friends: chat freely, share your decks, and compete to be the best!
Dragon Evo
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
A fantasy themed card game and deckbuilder with elements from RPGs and strategy games. Manage resources, utilize strategic placement and use additional building cards, event cards and action cards to win. Single player, online ranked or unranked - play with or without your friends.
World War: An Age of Industry & Magic
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
A collectible card game with a setting that draws from historical elements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as Spiritualism, the Victorian Era, the Industrial Revolution, psuedo-science and quackery of the time like Galvanism, both World Wars, and the sentiment of fin de siècle.
Gridholm
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
A tactical card battler where positioning wins games. Deploy cards on a 5x5 grid, move them like chess pieces, and control the throne. Use terrain and cast powerful spells. 200+ cards across four factions. Play Roguelike Deckbuilder, Draft, or Ranked Multiplayer. Think-to-win never pay-to-win.
Chrono CCG
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
Chrono CCG is an indie game from genre veterans where time-traveling agents battle for control of history. Timelines shift mid-match, agents evolve, and deep strategy meets accessible play. For the community, by the community.
召唤之王 (Supreme Summoner)
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
‘Supreme Summoner’ is a turn-based strategy chess game. Taking the imaginative Romance of the Three Kingdoms as its theme, it innovatively blends elements of gods, demons, and mystical creatures, making each faction and character's attributes even more prominent.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Excava.
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?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Excava.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Excava.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Excava.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Excava.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Excava.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Excava
- Does Excava have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Excava supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Excava?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Excava are Culdcept The First, Slimestone, The History of Everything.
- Who developed Excava?
- Excava was developed by Pancake Lab.
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 Excava.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.