Games Like Recesses

Recesses

It's recess. Time to play cards, find your missing friend, discover the meaning of life. The usual 5th grade playground stuff.

★ ETERNAL DESTINY ★ MORIMENS ★ ASTATOS ★ DARK LORD ★ LIBRARY OF RUINA ★ YU-GI-OH! LEGACY OF THE DUELIST : LINK EVOLUTION ★ INSCRYPTION ★ DUNE: IMPERIUM ★ ROGUEBOOK ★ GWENT: THE WITCHER CARD GAME ★ POKER CHAMPIONSHIP ★ BEECARBONIZE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Eternal Destiny

79% 👍 OF 242
About This Game

Eternal Destiny is an epic card game inspired by myths, legends, and H.P. Lovecraft, featuring 500+ cards with delightful animation and voice acting! Build your own deck with various cards, and beat enemies with high-level strategy combining skills, abilities and attributes.

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Morimens

80% 👍 OF 5.5K
About This Game

Morimens is a roguelite card-battler inspired by the Lovecraftian mythos. Bond with a diverse cast of Awakeners, build your perfect deck, and battle through the mists of Kadath—facing wild events and uncovering maddening truths at every turn.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Four-Awakener Teams
  • …Mix Two Realms
  • …Upgrade Cards Mid-Run
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Dark Lord

89% 👍 OF 188
About This Game

Unleash your power in Dark Lord, a roguelike RPG filled with strategy, adventure, and sardonic wit. Rule your growing realm with an iron fist in Story Mode, dive deep into the legends created by other players, or forge your own in Community Stories Mode!

REL Aug 15, 2024 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Library Of Ruina

94% 👍 OF 45K
About This Game

"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …invite people into your library, fight them, and turn the losers into books.
  • …win puzzle-like boss fights that demand a specific solution, then reward you with extra units, deck slots, and special pages.
  • …walk into a one-off boss setpiece with unique rules, beat it once, and never see that exact mechanic again.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution

83% 👍 OF 4.9K
About This Game

Build your Deck from over 10,000 cards and take on the most iconic Duelists from the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe. Relive the stories from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! animated series through Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Replay Anime Duels
  • …Build Custom Decks
  • …Play Duels in Reverse
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Inscryption

97% 👍 OF 149K
About This Game

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Player reviews say you can…

  • …have the game reach outside itself to use your actual files and even turn your Steam friends into cards.
  • …watch the whole game abruptly switch from a 3D tabletop in a cabin to a Game Boy-style pixel world mid-story.
  • …pull a dagger at the table, then fight the moon as a final boss when the rules say that should be impossible.
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Dune: Imperium

94% 👍 OF 4.4K
About This Game

The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …play solo scenarios with custom rules, like unlimited agents that still force you to pay for every resource you gather.
  • …steal an alliance out from under someone and flip who's scoring from that faction.
  • …draw five cards, spend some to take actions, then reshuffle and watch your deck come back stronger next round.
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Roguebook

84% 👍 OF 4.6K
About This Game

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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore With Magic Ink
  • …Swap Frontline Heroes
  • …Gem-Upgrade Your Cards
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Poker Championship

80% 👍 OF 2.9K
About This Game

Play real-time Texas Hold’em Poker with real players from around the world. No bots, no house players, no dealing manipulation — just fair poker with cash games, tournaments, rankings, and rewards.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Join Cash Tables
  • …Play Sit-and-Go
  • …Enter Multi-Table Tournaments
REL Sep 25, 2019 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Beecarbonize

94% 👍 OF 2.2K
About This Game

Do you have what it takes to save the planet? Beecarbonize is an environmental card strategy game with climate change as your opponent.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …turn climate disasters into permanent bonuses if you invest resources when they hit.
  • …trash your starting fossil industries and rebuild the whole economy from scratch.
  • …go from tribal culture to fusion power, solar mirrors, geoengineering, and even planet colonization in one run.