Games like Card Quest
If Card Quest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Roguebook, Blood Card and Slay the Spire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Card Quest: Card Quest is a dungeon crawling adventure game with unique card combat. Play with a variety of unique character classes, and customize decks to fit your playstyle. Explore the strategic depth of tactical roguelike gameplay, and crush the undead plague.
Players who liked Card Quest also play
Steam players who put hours into Card Quest 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.
Roguebook
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Quest.
Top pick for Card Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
Blood Card
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Card Quest.
Second-strongest match for Card Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
This card game combines elements of roguelike and deckbuilding. During the game, you shall strive ahead, gathering cards to build a unique deck and use it to defeat the enemies getting in your way. You will have to choose between escaping or try to defeat Death, who is relentlessly pursuing you.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Card Quest.
Third-strongest match for Card Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Card Quest.
Ranked #4 for Card Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Card Quest.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
Vault of the Void
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Quest.
Ranked #5 for Card Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Vault of the Void is a fast-paced roguelike deckbuilder where the power is in your hands. Continuously customise your deck, crafting powerful combos and ingenious strategies. Upgrade your cards with Void Stones, infusing them with new abilities to help defeat the minions of The Void!
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Card Quest.
Ranked #6 for Card Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.
Neurodeck : Psychological Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Quest.
Ranked #7 for Card Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Neurodeck is a psychological deckbuilding card game to challenge your fears. Build your deck & capacities by answering personality tests, visiting rooms or meditating. Face your phobia and defeat them through the power of life-inspired cards.
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Quest.
Ranked #8 for Card Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Card Quest.
Reviewers of Card Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Card Quest.
Reviewers of Card Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Card Quest.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Quest.
Reviewers of Card Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Card Quest.
Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!
Slay
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Card Quest.
Reviewers of Card Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Card Quest.
Slay is a turn based strategy game where your goal is to conquer the island by buying men and using them to capture your enemies' hexagons. By combining two men you can create a single more powerful man who is able to kill weaker men.
Magic: The Gathering Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Card Quest.
Reviewers of Card Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Card Quest.
Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Card Quest at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Quest.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Quest.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Card Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Quest.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Quest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Quest.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Quest on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Card Quest.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Card Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Quest.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Card Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Quest.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 Card Quest.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Card Quest.
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 Card Quest.
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.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Card Quest.
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.
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More from WinterSpring Games
Other recommendable Steam games by WinterSpring Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Card Survival: Tropical Island
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Card Quest.
Another title from WinterSpring Games, the studio behind Card Quest. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and an atmospheric mood with Card Quest.
Another title from WinterSpring Games, the studio behind Card Quest. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days
WHY THIS
Another title from WinterSpring Games, the studio behind Card Quest. Shares Indie with Card Quest.
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Card Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Vault of the Void
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Card Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Vault of the Void is a fast-paced roguelike deckbuilder where the power is in your hands. Continuously customise your deck, crafting powerful combos and ingenious strategies. Upgrade your cards with Void Stones, infusing them with new abilities to help defeat the minions of The Void!
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Card Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Quest.
Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.
Frequently asked about Card Quest
- Does Card Quest run on Steam Deck?
- Card Quest is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Card Quest cost?
- Card Quest is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Card Quest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Card Quest are Roguebook, Blood Card, Slay the Spire.
- Who developed Card Quest?
- Card Quest was developed by WinterSpring Games.
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