Games like Folklore War Game
If Folklore War Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empire in Decay, Backpack Dungeon and Rogue Paper Scissors — 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 Folklore War Game: The folklore war. Build a deck, pick a folklore, and settle the fights the legends never had. A roguelike deckbuilder about dying, rebuilding, and one more run.
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Empire in Decay
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Top pick for Folklore War Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
Start a rebellion and fight chess inspired turn-based combats in this roguelike deckbuilder. Upgrade your units and cards wisely. You will need it to progress through the districts of Daandria, the city where the tyrant king awaits you. Save this Empire in Decay.
Backpack Dungeon
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Second-strongest match for Folklore War Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
A unique pixel-art backpack management roguelike. Your backpack isn't just storage—it's your combat core. Item placement, adjacency, and trigger mechanics determine your survival in the dungeon. A mental challenge of spatial planning and strategy.
Rogue Paper Scissors
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Third-strongest match for Folklore War Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
What if Rock-Paper-Scissors became a roguelite extraction deckbuilder? You'll build a deck of deadly choices, master bizarre traits, and craft powerful hybrid cards. Extract your loot, or risk everything for the next floor. Sometimes, the best strategy is knowing when to run.
Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era
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Ranked #4 for Folklore War Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
A single-player roguelike deck-builder set in a fallen kingdom. Draft cards, chain elemental resonances, fight through procedural maps of battles, shrines, and bosses. Spend Ash at the Forge for permanent upgrades. Eight heroes, brutal Ascension tiers.
Mictla
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Ranked #5 for Folklore War Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
A challenging Puzzle Roguelike Deckbuilder inspired by Mesoamerican mythology where strategy is everything. Hard to master. Impossible to forget.
Soulsworn
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Ranked #6 for Folklore War Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
A Yu-Gi-Oh!-inspired roguelike where you fuse any two monsters and create your own custom cards. No mana, no restrictions: combo off, break boards, and OTK your way out of hell.
深渊书简
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Ranked #7 for Folklore War Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
深渊之书是一款克苏鲁风格的多人组队冒险类卡牌构筑Rouguelike游戏。每个角色除自身卡牌构筑外，还可以通过游戏特有的深渊“书简”和“追忆”形成技能连携、给予敌人额外伤害。玩家将组织一支自杀探险小队，接受女伯爵委托，前往神秘的深渊群岛去探寻疯狂黑公爵的秘密。
am I STILL me
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Ranked #8 for Folklore War Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
Dark power makes you stronger — but each bargain erodes your mind. A dark fantasy deckbuilding roguelite where your choices shape both your power and your ending.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Folklore War Game.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Folklore War Game.
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Folklore War Game.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folklore War Game.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Wheelchair Wizards
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Folklore War Game.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Folklore War Game.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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- What games are most similar to Folklore War Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Folklore War Game are Empire in Decay, Backpack Dungeon, Rogue Paper Scissors.
- Who developed Folklore War Game?
- Folklore War Game was developed by Join Digital Land.
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