The Deckbuilding Zone

Games where building and refining a card deck drives each run or match.

Latest Standouts

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

BLOODLETTER - A grim medieval deckbuilder where you use your dubious healing methods to protect bizarre villagers from the corrupting influence of ancient evils.
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.
Slot & Dungeons - A deck-building roguelite where the reels decide your fate! Enemies and items appear based on the spin of the slot. Master luck and strategy to conquer the dungeon!
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.
Reap and Rush - Reap and Rush is an absurdly addictive action roguelike. Step into the role of an underworld envoy thrust into a chaotic underworld. Fight through hordes of Yaoguai, leveling-up skills to become a soul-harvesting reaper and unravel a shocking conspiracy across endless cycles...
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Jul 21, 2026
87% 👍
of 235
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.
Frostrain 2 - Become the last conductor and rule over the final train society in a frozen world. Gather, expand, and forge your train while building powerful synergies with mighty artifacts. Your position—and the safety of your passengers—now rests in your hands.
Three Kingdoms:BOND - From Legendary SEGA Japan producer Yasuhiro Nishiyama, SANGOKUSHI BOND is a fast-paced deck-building army battler built for strategy experts, not fast fingers. Recruit from 100 legendary Three Kingdoms warlords, create devastating team synergies and watch your tactics unfold in the chaos of battle.

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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!
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.
Moonstone Island - Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!
Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 2 - The renowned Mega Man Battle Network series, which has expanded into anime and comics, is back. Volume 2 includes six action packed games from both versions of Mega Man Battle Network 4 to both versions of Mega Man Battle Network 6, plus additional features like a gallery and online play!
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Apr 13, 2023
87% 👍
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Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1 - The renowned Mega Man Battle Network series is back! Vol. 1 contains Mega Man Battle Network 1-3, including both versions of Mega Man Battle Network 3 for a total of four titles, plus additional features like a gallery of illustrations and music! In addition, online play is supported!
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Apr 13, 2023
88% 👍
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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.
METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED - Hard-core action with easy controls! The METAL SLUG we all love is back as a tower defense game!

Hidden Gems

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

Replicat - A roguelike memory deckbuilder where you bend the rules of card matching with wild combos, strategy-defining items and cards featuring some personality-packed cats.
Evolve or Die - A co-op voice-controlled action game where yelling is the combat system. Team up, scream into your mics, and unleash absurd sound-powered attacks. Coordinate, panic, or just shout nonsense until the enemies—and your friends—totally melt down.
Hungry Horrors - Feed legendary Horrors before they feed on the princess. Hungry Horrors is a roguelite card-based adventure through British and Irish mythology where you cook traditional dishes, build flavour synergies and serve the perfect meal. No prince. No servants. Just a recipe book and a talking cat.
Disillusion ST - A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once brought happiness to others.
Feng Shui Meowjong - Looks matter? Fun doesn’t?When cat memes collide with roguelike mahjong, a brand-new Meowjong is born! Feng Shui Meowjong is a fresh, lightweight roguelike puzzle game that blends classic mahjong strategy with quirky cat memes and feng shui elements.
Yamafuda! 2nd station - A fun, easy game where you climb mountains using a deck of cards and special gear you build along the way. Go and reach the summit!
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Sep 24, 2021
97% 👍
of 265
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.
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!

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% 👍
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Balatro - 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 - 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...
Nubby's Number Factory - A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
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Mar 7, 2025
97% 👍
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Arrow a Row - Arrow a row is a game in which you shoot arrows (of course) in a row! or maybe two rows! (maybe three?) Choose your power-ups and defeat the Boss.
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.
Emberward - Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!
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.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.