Games like Excava
If Excava is your kind of game, the closest matches are Discovery Of Magic, Culdcept The First 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.
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.
Discovery Of Magic
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Top pick for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
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.
Culdcept The First
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Second-strongest match 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
Third-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.
Requiem of Cards
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Ranked #4 for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Excava.
A tactical card battler where creatures move like chess pieces across a 7×7 battlefield. Build your deck, fuse cards into greater monsters and discover all Archtypes. Duel online in 1v1, 2v2, or free-for-all.
StrategySteam ↗Shinayu
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
Shinayu is a brand-new game concept combining round-based strategy card game with mechanical based 3D combat game. The first game where cards can be played in two vastly different game modes. Enjoy the strategical card game and bring the cards alive in intense 3D arenas whenever characters clash.
The History of Everything
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Ranked #6 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!
Rookspell
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Ranked #7 for Excava fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Excava.
Rookspell is a roguelike chess deckbuilder where tactical positioning meets chaotic card play. Outmaneuver your opponents with grandmaster strategy or break the board entirely with powerful card combos. Win through pure skill or draft an unstoppable play. The choice is yours!
Gridholm
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Ranked #8 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.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Excava.
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.
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.
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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 Discovery Of Magic, Culdcept The First, Slimestone.
- 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.
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