Games like Three Kingdoms:Yi
If Three Kingdoms:Yi is your kind of game, the closest matches are 白蛇之子 | The Son of White Snake: Roguelike Deckbuilder, Apawcalypse: Corrupted Brain and Era Echo — 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 Three Kingdoms:Yi: Solo-developed in 2 months. Three Kingdoms: Yi is a 2D turn-based roguelite deckbuilder. Command a sovereign across 8 provinces and 49 cities — form your battle line, sway enemy generals, raise banners, awaken your avatar. Every choice reshapes your deck and destiny. No two runs are alike.
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白蛇之子 | The Son of White Snake: Roguelike Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Top pick for Three Kingdoms:Yi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Leifeng Pagoda is no tower—it is an ancient serpent still breathing. Read enemy intent and forge card–relic engines in this Chinese cosmic-horror deckbuilder. Descend alone or online with up to 4 players.
Apawcalypse: Corrupted Brain
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Three Kingdoms:Yi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Lead a team of three animal survivors in a roguelike deckbuilder where every character has their own deck. Coordinate a shared Action Point pool, Intercept attacks to protect allies, and build powerful team synergies to survive the corruption.
Era Echo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Three Kingdoms:Yi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Era Echo is a strategic roguelike card game blending deckbuilding, civilization development, and auto battles. Shape your hero across nine eras, preserve each era's version as an Echo, and send them into hidden-information duels across a nine-day cosmic tournament.
As We Descend
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Three Kingdoms:Yi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Three Kingdoms:Yi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Montabi
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Three Kingdoms:Yi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi in this Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!
Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Three Kingdoms:Yi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
A Victorian Steampunk Roguelite Deckbuilder. Choose from four characters with unique cards and abilities. Customize your deck and character as you investigate a mysterious plague. Battle corrupted beasts and bosses in turn-based combat to unlock powerful relics and enchanted tarot cards.
Super Fantasy Kingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Three Kingdoms:Yi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Three Kingdoms:Yi at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Three Kingdoms:Yi on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Three Kingdoms:Yi on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Three Kingdoms:Yi on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Three Kingdoms:Yi on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Three Kingdoms:Yi on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Three Kingdoms:Yi on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Three Kingdoms:Yi on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Three Kingdoms:Yi on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
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?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
As We Descend
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Super Fantasy Kingdom
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Three Kingdoms:Yi.
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Frequently asked about Three Kingdoms:Yi
- How much does Three Kingdoms:Yi cost?
- Three Kingdoms:Yi is listed on Steam at 9.30 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Three Kingdoms:Yi?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Three Kingdoms:Yi are 白蛇之子 | The Son of White Snake: Roguelike Deckbuilder, Apawcalypse: Corrupted Brain, Era Echo.
- Who developed Three Kingdoms:Yi?
- Three Kingdoms:Yi was developed by XL Studio.
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