Games like Cardume
If Cardume is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Waves: Card Tactics, NARNOK and Mech Tech — 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 Cardume: A real-time PvP card battler fought by swarms of thousands of living cells. Build a deck that shapes how your swarm behaves, then swing the fight with a few well-timed cards. Mesmerizing to watch, and deep to master.
Players who liked Cardume also play
Steam players who put hours into Cardume 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.
Battle Waves: Card Tactics
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Top pick for Cardume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardume.
A fast-paced Card Battler with Tower Defense action! Claim victory in the Roguelite Deckbuilder campaign and Online Multiplayer. Collect all the factions to explore thousands of strategic combinations.
NARNOK
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cardume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardume.
NARNOK has no attacks. Build your universe and assemble your alien lineup. Battle other players' ghost lineups and gain more NARNOK than them. There is only NAR, the essence of good and order. There is only NOK, the essence of evil and chaos.
StrategySteam ↗Mech Tech
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cardume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardume.
A fast-paced hybrid of card battler and action game for up to 8 players! Fight as a mech, then hop into your base to deploy your troops to the battlefield! Fend off the Blue Invasion in Co-op Mode, or fight other players in Battle Mode!
Advent Arena
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Ranked #4 for Cardume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardume.
A card-game/tower-defense hybrid. Play solo or with a partner to level up your hero, summon creatures, and cast spells to take down your foes in online multiplayer. Employ any of many diverse strategies in quick matches. Collect and deploy every unique and quirky hero and card for free.
Warena
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Ranked #5 for Cardume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardume.
Warena is a real-time card battler with tactical depth. Deploy troops, cast spells, and push toward the enemy castle as your opponent pushes back. 1v1 PvP and single-player campaign.
For The Forge
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Ranked #6 for Cardume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cardume.
Build the ultimate PvP slot machine and battle rival dwarves for control of the last great dwarven forge!
Epic Card Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cardume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cardume.
a PvP card auto-battler simulator, Play cards to summon little dudes who auto-battle each other to the death! There's a full solo world conquest mode or you can play with up-to 6 Friends in a tournament battle to the death!
Sheeple
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Ranked #8 for Cardume fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardume.
Cast cards to turn the tides of the battlefield, gather your army, and fight to regain The Original Sheep! Sheeple is a grand real time Auto battler with roguelike and deck-building elements.
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 Cardume.
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 and Simulation with Cardume.
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?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardume.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardume.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cardume.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardume.
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 with Cardume.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Cardume
- Does Cardume have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cardume supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Cardume?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardume are Battle Waves: Card Tactics, NARNOK, Mech Tech.
- Who developed Cardume?
- Cardume was developed by conpixel.
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 Cardume.
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