Games like Gordian Quest
If Gordian Quest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Roguebook, Monster Train and Deep Sky Derelicts — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, unique boss designs and brutal. 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 →Gordian Quest, developed by Mixed Realms and Swag Soft and published with Spiral Up Games in 2022, is a deck-building role-playing game with party-based tactical combat on a grid. Players lead and develop parties of heroes across multiple build paths, drawing on old-school CRPG influences blended with roguelite elements and turn-based strategy. It carries an 84 Metacritic score and an 88% positive rating across 1,811 Steam reviews. Priced at 6.99 USD and Steam Deck Verified, it offers single-player play plus online PvP. Reviewers highlight the positioning-driven combat and the breadth of build variety across its ten heroes. Stat-based build styles and hero-path selection shape each campaign through its fantasy setting.
About Gordian Quest: An epic deckbuilding RPG inspired by old-school classics like Ultima and D&D, using modern gaming concepts like roguelite elements and turnbased strategic combat. Lead and nurture parties of heroes. Forge bonds and discover new skills among them. Guide them to unravel the curses laid upon the lands.
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Roguebook
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Shares a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Top pick for Gordian Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
Monster Train
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Shares tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Second-strongest match for Gordian Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gordian Quest.
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.
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Third-strongest match for Gordian Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Across the Obelisk
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Shares a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Ranked #4 for Gordian Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
Set forth in a co-op roguelite deckbuilder where every choice matters! Craft decks of breathtaking power. Journey alone or with up to three friends. Plot your party’s path to glory and face powerful enemies in deep tactical combat on your quest to save the kingdom of Senenthia in Across the Obelisk!
Trials of Fire
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Shares deck building, procedural generation and a brutal mood with Gordian Quest.
Ranked #5 for Gordian Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Indies' Lies
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Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Ranked #6 for Gordian Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gordian Quest.
A roguelike deck-building game where you craft a deck, spark talents, discover runes, and assemble your team with partners' cards! Play unique stories for every character and explore a world caught in the clash of gods. New Puppeteer DLC just released!
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
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Ranked #7 for Gordian Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Ranked #8 for Gordian Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gordian Quest.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
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Slay the Spire
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Shares tactical positioning, deck building and a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Reviewers of Gordian Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
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!
Darkest Dungeon®
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Shares deck building and procedural generation with Gordian Quest.
Reviewers of Gordian Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
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?
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Reviewers of Gordian Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Gordian Quest.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Dark Quest
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Reviewers of Gordian Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
Dark Quest is a turn-based dungeon crawler where you command a party of heroes on an epic quest to defeat the dark sorcerer and his minions, and save the land from his dark magic.
Across the Obelisk
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Reviewers of Gordian Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
Set forth in a co-op roguelite deckbuilder where every choice matters! Craft decks of breathtaking power. Journey alone or with up to three friends. Plot your party’s path to glory and face powerful enemies in deep tactical combat on your quest to save the kingdom of Senenthia in Across the Obelisk!
百煉登神 Immortal Tales of Rebirth
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Shares a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Reviewers of Gordian Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Gordian Quest.
In "Immortal Tales of Rebirth," an action RPG fusing fantasy , play as a struggling young master, tame spirit beasts, uncover lost martial arts & hidden realms, and challenge ancient divine beasts. Discover secrets & hidden events for rewarding experiences. Dive into this thrilling adventure!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gordian Quest at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Gordian Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gordian Quest.
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
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Priced ~57% under Gordian Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gordian Quest.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Gordian Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gordian Quest.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Gordian Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gordian Quest.
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
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Priced ~79% under Gordian Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gordian Quest.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under Gordian Quest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Gordian Quest.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under Gordian Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Gordian Quest.
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!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Gordian Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gordian Quest.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gordian Quest.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gordian Quest.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
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 and Indie with Gordian Quest.
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. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gordian Quest.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Mixed Realms Pte Ltd, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sairento VR
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Another title from Mixed Realms Pte Ltd, the studio behind Gordian Quest. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gordian Quest.
VR was made for this. Perform triple jumps, wall runs, power slides and slow time down while blasting away at a foe before landing to deliver a blade attack on another. Kit yourself with katanas, firearms, bows, throwing glaives and legendary relics. Keep upgrading as you play. PURE CYBER NINJA FUN.
Hellsweeper VR
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Shares a challenging mood with Gordian Quest.
Another title from Mixed Realms Pte Ltd, the studio behind Gordian Quest. Shares Indie and RPG with Gordian Quest.
DARE TO DESCEND INTO HELL? Hellsweeper VR is an intense first-person action-combat VR experience. Traverse the underworld where every step brings a challenge or a chance. Gain mastery of your weapons and elemental magic, or fall to the unrelenting onslaught of hell's twisted souls.
13Z: The Zodiac Trials
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Another title from Mixed Realms Pte Ltd, the studio behind Gordian Quest. Shares Adventure with Gordian Quest.
Go solo or team up with up to three friends in online co-op for this fast-paced, anime-inspired action roguelike. Master stylish hack and slash combat, craft overpowered builds, and conquer mythological trials to claim the title of the thirteenth Zodiac.
Frequently asked about Gordian Quest
- Is Gordian Quest verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Gordian Quest 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 Gordian Quest cost?
- Gordian Quest is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Gordian Quest have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Gordian Quest supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Gordian Quest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gordian Quest are Roguebook, Monster Train, Deep Sky Derelicts.
- Who developed Gordian Quest?
- Gordian Quest was developed by Mixed Realms Pte Ltd, Swag Soft Holdings Pte Ltd and published by Mixed Realms Pte Ltd, Spiral Up Games.
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