Games like Slay the Spire
If Slay the Spire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Balatro, Little Adventure Tale and Slay the Spire 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its highly addictive gameplay loop, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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 →Slay the Spire is a strategy indie game released by Mega Crit in 2019, currently priced around $6.24 USD. The core experience centers on deck-building mechanics combined with procedural generation, card-combo-systems, and tactical-positioning elements that create distinct encounters across each run. The game achieved an 89 on Metacritic and maintains a 98% positive rating from over 75,000 Steam reviews, also receiving verified status on Steam Deck. Players describe the experience as challenging and immersive, with reviewers highlighting that every run offers unique challenges and rewards alongside a highly addictive gameplay loop.
About Slay the Spire: We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Players who liked Slay the Spire also play
Steam players who put hours into Slay the Spire 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.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire.
Top pick for Slay the Spire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Little Adventure Tale
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Slay the Spire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Little Adventure tale is a Roguelike Deckbuilder set in a cute fantasy world where you can enlist the help of the Guild to Hire companions and manage several Card Decks & Accept Quests to earn more rewards! All this in order to banish the Evil Lord Obradin!
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire.
Third-strongest match for Slay the Spire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Skogdal
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Slay the Spire.
Ranked #4 for Slay the Spire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
A deckbuilding adventure card game set in a rustic Norwegian town during the 90's. Recruit followers, draft cards and build powerful combos. Explore a hand-crafted world across multiple runs and uncover an unsettling mystery…
Neurodeck : Psychological Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Slay the Spire.
Ranked #5 for Slay the Spire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Neurodeck is a psychological deckbuilding card game to challenge your fears. Build your deck & capacities by answering personality tests, visiting rooms or meditating. Face your phobia and defeat them through the power of life-inspired cards.
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Slay the Spire.
Ranked #6 for Slay the Spire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Slay the Spire.
Ranked #7 for Slay the Spire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Destiny or Fate
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Slay the Spire.
Ranked #8 for Slay the Spire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Destiny or Fate is a deck-building roguelite game. Choose a hero, build a deck and a party of mythical creatures, and set out on an endless adventure! Are you ready to make your own destiny, or will you succumb to an evil fate?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Slay the Spire
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Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Slay the Spire.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Slay the Spire.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Pirates Outlaws
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Slay the Spire.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and procedural generation with Slay the Spire.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Slay the Spire.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire cross-mention this title as a similar play.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
From the creators of Vampire Survivors comes a turbo-charged, turn-based roguelite deckbuilder! Deal world-ending combos, blitz through infested dungeons, and master the Turboturn to obliterate hordes of familiar foes with a chaotic hand of cards.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire.
Reviewers of Slay the Spire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Slay the Spire at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~84% under Slay the Spire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Slay the Spire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Slay the Spire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~76% under Slay the Spire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Slay the Spire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Slay the Spire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Slay the Spire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Slay the Spire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Slay the Spire.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Slay the Spire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Slay the Spire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Slay the Spire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slay the Spire.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Frequently asked about Slay the Spire
- Is Slay the Spire verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Slay the Spire is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Slay the Spire cost?
- Slay the Spire is listed on Steam at 6.24 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Slay the Spire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Slay the Spire are Balatro, Little Adventure Tale, Slay the Spire 2.
- Who developed Slay the Spire?
- Slay the Spire was developed by Mega Crit.
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