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Games like Cardboard Leagues

If Cardboard Leagues is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sports Card Collector Simulator, Idle Colors and Console Shop Simulator — 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.

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About Cardboard Leagues: Cardboard Leagues is a sports card shop keeper sim where you start with a small shop and attempt to build it into a successful business with loyal repeat customers. Collect baseball, football, soccer, hockey and basketball cards & memorabilia immersed in a dynamic world of content.

2026SportsIndieSimulationWindowsby Scriblr LLC
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Steam players who put hours into Cardboard Leagues 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.

  1. Sports Card Collector Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cardboard Leagues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Cardboard Leagues.

    Run your own booth at the world’s largest sports collectors convention. Buy, sell, trade, and open packs and mystery boxes while upgrading and customizing your booth to attract customers and outsell the competition. Collect and grade cards, memorabilia, and more to build your sports card empire.

    SportsIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Idle Colors

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Cardboard Leagues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Strategize with 8 unique currencies, each with upgradable production chains. Master triple prestige systems, evolve your economy, upgrade generators tiers, optimize through conversion, and dominate leaderboards in this deep idle experience.

    2025IndieSimulation8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Console Shop Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cardboard Leagues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Factory Outlet Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cardboard Leagues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Factory Outlet Simulator is a very comprehensive product manufacturing and selling game. You can produce the products of world famous brands in your factory and sell them. Or you can expand your business and create your own brand. Use your business acumen to lead the market from zero to the top!

    2024IndieSimulation10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Military Incremental Complex

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cardboard Leagues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.

    2025StrategySimulation7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Supercar Collection Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Cardboard Leagues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Start your own diecast store! Unbox surprise car packs, expand your collection, oin exciting races with customers on the tracks, and play online trading games. A world full of speed and excitement is waiting for you in your store!

    2025IndieSimulationCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Out of the Park Baseball 27

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cardboard Leagues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Cardboard Leagues.

    27 years of sports gaming excellence! Out of the Park Baseball 27 is here - officially licensed by MLB, the MLB Players Inc. and KBO! You are firmly in charge of your favorite baseball franchise - today or at any point in history! Your team, your way, your rules.

    2026SportsStrategyIndie49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Hammerting

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cardboard Leagues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Leagues.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Leagues.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cardboard Leagues.

    Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.

    2023StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cardboard Leagues

What games are most similar to Cardboard Leagues?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardboard Leagues are Sports Card Collector Simulator, Idle Colors, Console Shop Simulator.
Who developed Cardboard Leagues?
Cardboard Leagues was developed by Scriblr LLC.

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 Leagues.

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16 Games Like Cardboard Leagues — Ranked for 2026 · imho.run