Games like Gloomhaven
If Gloomhaven is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slimestone, HELLCARD and Marvel's Midnight Suns — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its automates tedious management, cool designs 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 →Gloomhaven is a turn-based tactical RPG developed by Flaming Fowl Studios and Saber Interactive, published by Twin Sails Interactive. Set in a dark fantasy world, the game translates the acclaimed board game to digital form with online co-op support for up to four players. Players manage campaigns, build and burn cards, and navigate an initiative system while leading teams of mercenaries through challenging encounters. The game automates traditionally tedious board game management tasks while maintaining a massive scope with hundreds of scenarios and numerous character classes. Priced at $34.99 USD, it holds an 82% positive review score from over 10,000 Steam reviews and runs on Steam Deck.
About Gloomhaven: Lead your band of mercenaries in the land of Gloomhaven, work with unsavoury individuals, shape the fate of the region, fight your way through horrific places and get rich or die trying in this ruthless Tactical-RPG.
Players who liked Gloomhaven also play
Steam players who put hours into Gloomhaven 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.
Slimestone
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gloomhaven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Gloomhaven.
Slimestone is a coop deck building adventure cardbattler about a tiny slime in a big world. Absorb defeated enemies, gain their powers, and use them to explore hand crafted dungeons filled with traps and treasures.
HELLCARD
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gloomhaven.
Second-strongest match for Gloomhaven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Gloomhaven.
Hellcard is a unique cooperative deck builder rogue-like game. Descend into the paper dungeons on your own, recruit computer-controlled companions or join other players' lobbies in fast-paced tactical card battles against the armies of darkness and the Archdemon himself!
Marvel's Midnight Suns
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Gloomhaven.
Third-strongest match for Gloomhaven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
Deck Adventurers - Origins
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gloomhaven.
Ranked #4 for Gloomhaven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Gloomhaven.
Hard game of tactical combat with cards, in which you customize the cards themselves, not just the deck. No grinding or random encounters, only combats designed for you to find the right strategy.
The Last Errant
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Gloomhaven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gloomhaven.
The Last Errant is a challenging turn-based tactical deckbuilder. Build your deck, master unique classes and variants, manage your sanity, evolve and mutate your cards, and outsmart your enemies in deeply tactical grid-based battles.
Zold:out
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gloomhaven.
Ranked #6 for Gloomhaven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
Zold:out is a semi-turn-based tactical RPG combined with deck building. You will use multiple weapons in one turn to challenge powerful enemies in a non-grid battlefield. Recruit clerks, forge weapons, and save the world with your strategy and creativity!
Royal Booty Quest
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gloomhaven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
Dive into the world of Royal Booty Quest and experience the thrill of deckbuilding and roguelike adventure like never before.
Deck of Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gloomhaven.
Ranked #8 for Gloomhaven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
Roguelite deck-building meets souls-like. Break out of an infinite loop to close the hell gates, turn enemies into cards, and build your own omnipotent Deck of Souls! Rolls included.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Gloomhaven
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Sunderfolk
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling and turn based combat with Gloomhaven.
Reviewers of Gloomhaven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
Rediscover game night in this tactical RPG where shared strategy shapes every turn. Adventure across the Sunderlands with up to four players in online multiplayer using your mouse & keyboard or play couch co-op using phones as controllers. Play the first 4 missions for free!
Marvel's Midnight Suns
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Gloomhaven.
Reviewers of Gloomhaven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
Frosthaven
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Gloomhaven.
Reviewers of Gloomhaven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
From the creative mind of Isaac Childres, the highly acclaimed board game moves to the digital realm in the video game adaptation of FROSTHAVEN! The dark fantasy tactical RPG features deep mechanics and challenging yet satisfying gameplay both in Single Player and Co-Op Online Multiplayer.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a challenging mood with Gloomhaven.
Reviewers of Gloomhaven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Gloomhaven.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
Wildermyth
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Gloomhaven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
Solasta II
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning, turn based combat and an epic mood with Gloomhaven.
Reviewers of Gloomhaven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Gloomhaven.
In a Mana-infused land, a dark force led by the enigmatic Shadwyn threatens Neokos. Bring your party of adventurers together across perilous realms in this Turn-Based Tactical RPG based on the SRD 5.2 ruleset. You make the choices, dice decide your destiny.
Tabletop Inc.
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Gloomhaven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gloomhaven.
Start a tabletop game company in your bedroom workshop! Develop unique genres and themes, assemble the game boxes yourself, pay your bills, hire your friends, upgrade your workshop, and design even better games in this cozy management tycoon.
The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and an epic mood with Gloomhaven.
Reviewers of Gloomhaven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Gloomhaven.
A companion app for The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth board game from Fantasy Flight Games, a fully-cooperative board game for one to five players! This companion app dictates the setup of each encounter, tracks your party’s inventory and skills, and resolves combat while you brave the looming forests, quiet clearings, and...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gloomhaven at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Gloomhaven on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Gloomhaven.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~71% under Gloomhaven on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Gloomhaven.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Gloomhaven on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gloomhaven.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Gloomhaven on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gloomhaven.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Gloomhaven on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Gloomhaven.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Gloomhaven on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Gloomhaven.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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 RPG with Gloomhaven.
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!
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Gloomhaven.
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.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Gloomhaven.
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.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Gloomhaven.
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.
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Frequently asked about Gloomhaven
- Does Gloomhaven run on Steam Deck?
- Gloomhaven is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Gloomhaven cost?
- Gloomhaven is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Gloomhaven have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Gloomhaven supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Gloomhaven?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gloomhaven are Slimestone, HELLCARD, Marvel's Midnight Suns.
- Who developed Gloomhaven?
- Gloomhaven was developed by Flaming Fowl Studios, Saber Interactive and published by Twin Sails Interactive.
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