Games like Cardboard Gladiators
If Cardboard Gladiators is your kind of game, the closest matches are Claw and Conjure, Stash: A Card Looter and Sangoku Bump — 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 Cardboard Gladiators: A PvPvE inventory management autobattler with asynchronous multiplayer! Build a team of gladiators, craft and equip powerful items, discover game-breaking synergies, and outsmart opponents with clever battleplans.
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Steam players who put hours into Cardboard Gladiators 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.
Claw and Conjure
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Top pick for Cardboard Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
Claw and Conjure is an async PvP auto-battler with fantasy RPG flair. Upgrade your town to synergize with your build, then race into battle against real players. Hire assassins, deploy traps, and resurrect exploding minions as you climb the global leaderboards.
Stash: A Card Looter
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Second-strongest match for Cardboard Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
Embark on a unique drafting adventure with an endless array of randomized cards inspired by classical ARPG-Loot. Transform your one-of-a-kind loot into powerful battle tactics! Take on enemy squads drafted by real players in a post-human world teeming with beasty conflicts.
Sangoku Bump
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Third-strongest match for Cardboard Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
A fast Three Kingdoms roguelike strategy card game. Recruit generals, build synergies, arrange your formation, and watch your team bump its way through automatic battles.
One Last Sacrifice
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Ranked #4 for Cardboard Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
Most autobattlers reset after every match. One Last Sacrifice doesn't. Unlock skills across a branching skill tree. Build a deck. Improve creatures by crafting. Compete in 1v1 duels or 8-player elimination tournaments - sync and async play supported.
God Complex
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Ranked #5 for Cardboard Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
An async autobattler of rival gods. Raise a civilization from mud, teach it your universe's laws, and lay siege to the god next door — their world against yours, one bell at a time.
Fighting Rogue
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Ranked #6 for Cardboard Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
As a sect champion, fight for forbidden scrolls in the Martial Arts Tournament. Master signature techniques, synergize martial manuals, and wield divine weapons to craft your unique style. Overcome relentless rivals in evolving battles—achieve legendary glory in one decisive clash!
FLASK
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Ranked #7 for Cardboard Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
FLASK is a roguelike autobattler about alchemical greed on the new frontier. Build unstoppable homunculi, barter with mutated merchants, and slay hordes of monsters to harvest their valuable blood. It's time to get bloody... Bloody rich!
StrategySteam ↗Valefor 2
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Ranked #8 for Cardboard Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
A PvP roguelike autobattler you play at your own pace. Recruit mercenaries, stack distinct race/class synergies, forge relics, claim perks. Slow, deep, and hard.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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 with Cardboard Gladiators.
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.
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!
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Path of Exile
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Gladiators.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Frequently asked about Cardboard Gladiators
- Does Cardboard Gladiators have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cardboard Gladiators supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Cardboard Gladiators?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardboard Gladiators are Claw and Conjure, Stash: A Card Looter, Sangoku Bump.
- Who developed Cardboard Gladiators?
- Cardboard Gladiators was developed by 150 Beanies .
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 Cardboard Gladiators.
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