Games like Pay the House
If Pay the House is your kind of game, the closest matches are Confidence Man, Klaus Veen's Bastards and Anicards — 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 Pay the House: You owe The House, and the only trade you have is cigarette cards. Rip packs, complete sets, and cover a payment that doubles every third time. Pawn what you need, borrow from the shark, keep opening. A Prohibition-era pack-opening roguelike about a debt that grows every time you pay it off.
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Confidence Man
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Top pick for Pay the House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Pay the House.
Promise impossible returns. Pay yesterday's investors with today's money. In this 1920s deckbuilding roguelike, every month you choose: raise the rate and grow the lie, or take the case and run. The scheme always collapses — the only question is whether you're still holding it.
Klaus Veen's Bastards
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Second-strongest match for Pay the House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pay the House.
Bastards is an online, fast-paced and tactical card game for 2-8 players. Take turns playing cards from low to high: 3 is the lowest, 2 the highest. Be first to get rid of your hand to become President. Finish last, and you’ll become the Bastard!
Wandering Dice
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Ranked #4 for Pay the House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pay the House.
Wandering Dice is a Wuxia Roguelike deckbuilder where every strike is a die. Waking in a snowy valley, even peerless kungfu requires a lucky roll. Every battle is a high-stakes gamble; life and death hinge on a single toss. Can you sever the threads of fate in this vast Jianghu?
Seferia Matrix
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Ranked #5 for Pay the House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pay the House.
A Yahtzee roguelike deckbuilder. Roll five dice into a hand, and the hand casts a spell. Lock the dice you want, flip the rest with sigils, and chain 200 artifacts into runaway scores. When the run ends, your training stays.
Hanafuda
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Ranked #6 for Pay the House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Pay the House.
Discover the traditional Japanese 🎴Hanafuda (花札 - Flower Cards) games, brought to life as a beautiful, modern 3D tabletop game. Match cards to create pairs, complete a set and collect points, or call Koi-Koi to risk it all for more. Play against the computer, or other players online.
The Devil's Due
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Ranked #7 for Pay the House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pay the House.
You lost your soul in a poker game against the Devil. Now, trapped in the infernal depths, your only hope is to fight your way back to freedom. You’ll face a diverse gallery of monstrous foes in nearly impossible poker battles - but luckily, you’re a cheater.
Galaxy Hunter
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Ranked #8 for Pay the House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Pay the House.
A unique card-based turn-based battle system set in a universe of cosmic opera.
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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 Pay the House.
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.
Disfigure
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Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about Pay the House
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pay the House are Confidence Man, Klaus Veen's Bastards, Anicards.
- Who developed Pay the House?
- Pay the House was developed by zun.
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