Games like Lost Cities
If Lost Cities is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wyrmspan, Wingspan and Chai — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its achievements add replay value, challenging and tense. 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 Lost Cities: Officially licensed version of the award winning Lost Cities by Reiner Knizia. Plan your expeditions wisely to outpace your rival's pursuits! After 3 rounds of adventuring, the player that had the most successful expeditions is the winner!
Players who liked Lost Cities also play
Steam players who put hours into Lost Cities 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.
Wyrmspan
WHY THIS
Top pick for Lost Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Wyrmspan is an engine-building, card-driven strategy game for 1 to 5 players. Play as an amateur dracologist discovering a world of dragons. Excavate caves and explore your sanctuary. Entice dragons and chain their abilities to create powerful combos.
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lost Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Chai
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lost Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lost Cities.
Chai is the digital adaptation of the card game of the same name created by Dan and Connie Kazmaier developed by "Steeped Games". It can be played with 1-5 players.
Everdell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Ranked #4 for Lost Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!
Root
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Ranked #5 for Lost Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
Concordia: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Ranked #6 for Lost Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
Gaia Project
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Ranked #7 for Lost Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.
Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Ranked #8 for Lost Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Lost Cities.
The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, called Meeples.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lost Cities at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lost Cities on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lost Cities.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lost Cities on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lost Cities.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lost Cities on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lost Cities on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lost Cities.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Lost Cities on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lost Cities.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lost Cities on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lost Cities.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Lost Cities on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lost Cities.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lost Cities on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lost Cities.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
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!
Dota Underlords
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Casual with Lost Cities.
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.
FPS Chess
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Casual with Lost Cities.
Battle a friend in this fast paced 1v1 class-based first-person shooter. Chess takes a back-seat to FPS as you win duel after duel and capture the opponent's pieces until you've beaten their king and won the game.
KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
KARDS, The World War II Card Game, combines traditional CCG gameplay with innovative mechanics inspired by classic strategy games and real battlefield tactics. Take command and challenge other players in grand-scale warfare on the ground, air, or seas.
GWENT: The Witcher Card Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Lost Cities.
Command mighty Witcher-world heroes in epic online PvP card battles!
Card Hunter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Lost Cities.
Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.
Mahjong Soul
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Casual with Lost Cities.
Mahjong Soul is an online game that adopted the classic Japanese Mahjong gameplay. Here, you can hone your mahjong skills with players from worldwide or spend leisure time with friends, bond with various charismatic characters, and experience an abundance of unique stories.
Star Realms
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Lost Cities.
Star Realms is a hugely popular space combat deckbuilding game. Download and play today (note: base set is required to play online) to find out why Star Realms is the winner of SXSW 2014 Board Game of the Year, 7 Golden Geek Awards from BoardGameGeek, and 2 Dice Tower awards!
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More from BlueLine Games
Other recommendable Steam games by BlueLine Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hive
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Lost Cities. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
Khet 2.0
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Lost Cities. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...
Othello
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Lost Cities. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
The classic abstract strategy game comes to Steam! Othello is an ageless game that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Place tiles surrounding your opponents tiles to flip them to your color. Get to the end with more tiles of your color and you are the winner!
Simply Chess
WHY THIS
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Lost Cities. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.
Tatsu
WHY THIS
Another title from BlueLine Games, the studio behind Lost Cities. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Japanese legend tells of a great battle between two mighty Dragon Lord armies, locked in combat on the peaks of Mount Hotaka, competing to win the hand of the Princess Kushinada, the last and most beautiful of eight sisters.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Everdell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!
Root
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
Concordia: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
Gaia Project
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lost Cities.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.
Frequently asked about Lost Cities
- How much does Lost Cities cost?
- Lost Cities is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Lost Cities have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Lost Cities supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Lost Cities?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lost Cities are Wyrmspan, Wingspan, Chai.
- Who developed Lost Cities?
- Lost Cities was developed by BlueLine Games.
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 Lost Cities.
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