The Card Battler Zone

Games where cards represent attacks, units, spells, or tactical combat choices.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Flowers and Deities - Flowers and Deities is a strategy deckbuilder roguelite where you command a blood-soaked lizardkin army through escalating arena battles, spending every drop of spilled blood to cast spells, summon creatures, and survive long enough to claim the favor of the Gods
Kungfu Card - Kung Fu Cards combines the depth of Chinese martial arts with familiar playing card and mahjong mechanics, making it easy to learn yet deeply strategic. Read your opponent, counter every move, select your martial school and moves, and fight to claim the title of the world's greatest martial artist!
Zoominoes - Build the ultimate Zoo in this number-go-up roguelike deckbuilder. Find powerful mythical animals, boost them with snacks, and even manipulate the board itself. Break the game by scoring millions (and more) with insane combos.
Archon Soul - Archon Soul is a 2D roguelike dice-builder where you create powerful dice using swappable faces, runes, and bodies with unique effects. ​Draft spells, craft powerful synergies, defeat challenging enemies, and conquer the Archon's palace.
Worlds Upon The Wind - Resettle the shards of a shattered world in this peaceful roguelite deckbuilder, covering centuries of classical Japanese art. Nurture communities, befriend animal spirits, and shape a new civilization through choices that echo across generations.
Fogpiercer - Fight through the fog in this sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder where clever positioning, explosive chain-reactions, and the environment itself can make the difference between life and death.
Chrono CCG - Chrono CCG is an indie game from genre veterans where time-traveling agents battle for control of history. Timelines shift mid-match, agents evolve, and deep strategy meets accessible play. For the community, by the community.
Slot or Not - Slot or Not is a turn-based slot machine battling adventure. Fight evil fruits alongside your battle buddy slot machine to save your village. Spin your destiny and grab the precious loot in a fast-paced, colorful adventure.
Voice of Belldona - A sci-fantasy roguelite deckbuilder set in a world collapsing under cosmic instability. To stop the turmoil, humanity created a white-haired, godlike girl with overwhelming power and social anxiety. Enter the Vortex Zone, summon your allies, form your battle line, and tear through the enemy forces.

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Roguebook - 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!
The Knight Witch - The Knight Witch is a metroidvania adventure game with fast-paced, shoot 'em up combat set in a beautifully hand-drawn world. Cast devastating card-based spells, forge close bonds, and make moral choices all in your quest to save your home and discover who's behind the War Golem invasion.
Dicey Dungeons - 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!
Marvel's Midnight Suns - 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.
Knights in Tight Spaces - Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.
Tower Tactics: Liberation - We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!
Black Book - “Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
Ballionaire - BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
Zet Zillions - Zet Zillions is a single-player roguelike deckbuilder where you use your cards to make freakish combinations and explode entire planets. BIG-BADDA-BOOM!
9 Kings - A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.
Super Fantasy Kingdom - Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Looper Tactics - Welcome again, wandering soul. Will this be the time of your success? Watch your steps as you advance in this roguelike-deck builder and engage in auto-battler card encounters of increasing difficulty. Get stronger in each battle, rise from the ashes, and break free from endless reincarnation!

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Puzzline - Puzzline is a 2-4 player board game connecting cards like a puzzle! Each card has a unique effect. Play them strategically and get the victory! Online play is also supported!
Bearnard - Play cards by shooting arrows - miss the shot, lose the card. Master turn-based combat, defeat enemies, and solve environmental puzzles across diverse biomes. Join Bearnard on his quest!
Lethal Dungeon - Lethal Dungeon is a roguelike card game. Win every battle using only the cards in your opening hand to defeat all enemies in a single turn.
Muffles' Life Sentence - Take back your identity in Muffles’ Life Sentence- a darkly quirky RPG set in a prison where inmates are remade to match their crimes.
Duelists of Eden - Build a deck and battle online in real-time action with rollback netcode!
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Mar 7, 2024
96% 👍
of 930
Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection - The Mega Man Star Force series, which expanded into an anime, is back in the Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection! This collection includes seven games and additional features like a gallery of illustrations and music! Online play is also supported!
Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love - Welcome back to your childhood town! The Full HD Remaster of Karigurashi Ren’ai: Living on Borrowed Love perfectly preserves ASa Project's signature blend of comedy and heartwarming charm while offering a stunning new visual experience.
DUNGEON ARTIFACT - DUNGEON ARTIFACT is a title that fuses authentic card game mechanics with the deep complexity of roguelike deck-building. Freely combine over 400 different cards to unleash the ultimate combos!
HeistGeist - Get in, get the goods, get out. What could possibly go wrong? In this single-player, story-driven cyberpunk RPG, play as Alexandra - a street-smart thief on the run after a failed heist. Put together a team of unusual allies, pull off thrilling heists, and fight and hack using your deck of cards.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Kabuto Park - Enjoy summer in Kabuto Park! Catch the cutest bugs, train them and win the Summer Beetle Battles Championship in this tiny bug collection game! Upgrade your equipment to find rarer, stronger and shinier little friends.
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May 28, 2025
100% 👍
of 4.4k
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!
Inscryption - 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...
StarVaders - Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Monster Train - 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.
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors - 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.
DICEOMANCER - DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins - 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!
One Turn Kill - One Turn Kill is a PvE card game where card drawing and deck control are the keys to victory. Engage in battles limited to a single turn for an exhilarating, suspenseful experience.Join the protagonist in a pixel art wasteland to face off with the strongest of enemies and see what story awaits.
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Jan 15, 2026
96% 👍
of 1.4k
ROUNDS - Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.
Stacklands - Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!