Games like The Hero and His Friends
If The Hero and His Friends is your kind of game, the closest matches are CharmEdge Deck, Poker FC and Maid?Hero! — 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 The Hero and His Friends: A fantasy roguelike adventure with unique card battles. Recruit companions and battle enemies using Companion Cards, where each round compares a random stat. Every companion has unique abilities that change the rules of combat. Build your team, adapt your strategy, and shape your own adventure.
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CharmEdge Deck
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Top pick for The Hero and His Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
A laid-back casual roguelike-DBG game! As a genius mage-swordsman apprentice, build your magic deck, wield Enchantments and Skills, and teach that snarky young mentor a lesson!
Poker FC
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Second-strongest match for The Hero and His Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
Poker FC is a football-parody roguelike deckbuilder. Build your squad, turn poker hands into goals, and outscore the AI round by round to win the cup. Stack game-changing special cards, open packs to collect caricature stars, and face boss referees. 100% single-player, no ads, in 10 languages.
Maid?Hero!
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Third-strongest match for The Hero and His Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Hero and His Friends.
Embark on a journey across the world alongside a maid. Collect cards, grant them unique enchantments, and unlock their limitless potential. Build your own playstyle through powerful combinations, explore unknown lands, collect relics, and challenge a variety of enemies.
Draftcraft:The Path Of Trials
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Ranked #4 for The Hero and His Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Hero and His Friends.
An innovative fusion of deck-building, semi-real-time 3D combat, and Roguelike adventure. Every run offers a fresh and unpredictable experience. Upgrade and fine-tune any stat on your cards to build the ultimate custom deck. Face off against fierce bosses and survive the chaos unleashed!
Pegs of Hell
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Ranked #5 for The Hero and His Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
A physics roguelike where you build the pachinko board yourself. Place and upgrade pegs, arrange powerful Arcana, split balls, trigger elemental chains and create absurd scoring machines before Hell's rent catches up with you.
I Never Late for Work
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Ranked #6 for The Hero and His Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
This is a life-simulation roguelike card game. Harness item and skill cards to shorten your commute, continuously boost yourself through diverse events, forge connections with different friends to help each other out, and become the best employee who never arrives late.
Elegy For A Violet
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Ranked #7 for The Hero and His Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
This is a deck-building card game inspired by Spider Solitaire. Players will build their own decks and battle against monsters with various unique mechanics.
The Normie Apocalypse
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Ranked #8 for The Hero and His Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Hero and His Friends.
In this game, you fight zombies while building a team of wierdos to help you! There are 64 unique base cards to add to your deck, and 48 unique treasures as well! Combo cards together to DEFEND against the zombies, or deal devastating attacks! Features 7 different areas with unique bosses to fight!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Hero and His Friends at current Steam store prices.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under The Hero and His Friends on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under The Hero and His Friends on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under The Hero and His Friends on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under The Hero and His Friends on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~50% under The Hero and His Friends on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~50% under The Hero and His Friends on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Zuma Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under The Hero and His Friends on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
Deep in the jungle lie hidden temples bursting with traps and trickery, and it's up to you to uncover their treasures. Fire magical balls from your stone frog idol to make matches of three or more and clear the deadly chain before it reaches the golden skull.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Hero and His Friends.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about The Hero and His Friends
- How much does The Hero and His Friends cost?
- The Hero and His Friends is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Hero and His Friends?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hero and His Friends are CharmEdge Deck, Poker FC, Maid?Hero!.
- Who developed The Hero and His Friends?
- The Hero and His Friends was developed by Moyu Studio.
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