Games like Ludus Deceptor
If Ludus Deceptor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rookspell, Hive and Harvest and Tower's Gambit — 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 Ludus Deceptor: Ludus Deceptor is a dark roguelike card game about risk, deception, and cursed bets. Battle at the card table, build powerful combinations, use bonuses, curses, interactive cards, and various items to escape prison, survive the royal court, and claim the throne.
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Steam players who put hours into Ludus Deceptor 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.
Rookspell
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Top pick for Ludus Deceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ludus Deceptor.
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!
Hive and Harvest
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Second-strongest match for Ludus Deceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ludus Deceptor.
Death is dying, and five hives are fighting over the rot that's left. A trading card game about insects you grow from parts, a card at a time. Plant a parasite in an enemy creature, seed it with spores until it changes sides, or just break it and race your opponent to the pieces.
Tower's Gambit
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Third-strongest match for Ludus Deceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ludus Deceptor.
A card-based roguelike where every flip could be your fortune — or your doom. Descend a pyramid of cards, dodge deadly matches, play face cards at the perfect moment, and risk your score against 10 brutal boss towers. No two runs are the same.
Magma Karta
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Ranked #4 for Ludus Deceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ludus Deceptor.
Magma Karta is a satisfying strategy card game with roguelite and gambling elements. The rules can switch at any turn, challenging you to adapt your builds and your playstyle.
Clutchtime™: Basketball Deckbuilder
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Ranked #5 for Ludus Deceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ludus Deceptor.
Build your perfect deck and become a Champion.
Seferia Matrix
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Ranked #6 for Ludus Deceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ludus Deceptor.
A dice roguelike deckbuilder — Lock & Roll five dice to complete a hand, and the hand casts a spell. Flip the faces you're missing with sigils, stack 200 artifacts into the scoring formula, and watch runs explode into ridiculous scores. When the run ends, your training stays.
MataOno
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Ranked #7 for Ludus Deceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ludus Deceptor.
You've never rolled big ones quite like this. MataOno is a chaotic dice roguelike deckbuilder about assembling dice and building combos that massively cascade out of control. Pair item effects to stack your multipliers and turn single-digit rolls into numbers that can't even fit on your screen.
DEAD SPIN
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Ranked #8 for Ludus Deceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ludus Deceptor.
Gamble your way through a deadly casino in this dark roguelite deckbuilder. Survive the campaign or challenge other players in PvP mode. Discover broken synergies and keep spinning for your freedom!
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Ludus Deceptor.
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.
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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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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 Ludus Deceptor.
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.
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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 Ludus Deceptor.
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 Ludus Deceptor
- Does Ludus Deceptor have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ludus Deceptor supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Ludus Deceptor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ludus Deceptor are Rookspell, Hive and Harvest, Tower's Gambit.
- Who developed Ludus Deceptor?
- Ludus Deceptor was developed by Ginser.
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