The Roguelike Deckbuilder Zone

Run-based card games where deck choices evolve through encounters and rewards.

Latest Standouts

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

Golden Swirl - Golden Swirl is a dark fantasy, semi-real-time action deckbuilder. Master tactical movement to dodge fierce attacks while managing your hand. Fully voiced with custom heroes, fine-tune your deck, relics, and runes to repel the Swirl. Can you survive the madness?
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder - Players say: Build a score-chasing island town by pairing guilds, placing buildings for chained bonuses, and meeting targets each run. Players like: Building Synergies · Guild Pair Variety · Satisfying Score Chains ·
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A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!

BLOODLETTER - A grim medieval deckbuilder where you use your dubious healing methods to protect bizarre villagers from the corrupting influence of ancient evils.
Cult of PiN - Flip, nudge, and destroy in this roguelike pinball deckbuilder. Select from 100+ upgrades to create game-breaking builds and smash through the cursed playfields. Complete missions to trigger explosive special attacks and tear the tables apart, one bumper at a time.
Lucky Shot - A shooting dopamine machine! Lucky Shot is a roguelike mag-builder FPS where you master different weapons, build wild combos, and break the game to reach massive high scores.
Re:Night - Re:Night is a strategy game that blends turn based tactics with roguelike deckbuilding. In each run, build your deck, plan your tactics, and experiment with countless 3-character team combinations. Journey to a mysterious town, break the endless cycle of night, and bring dawn back to the world.
Pot's On! - Players say: Turned into a pot by a witch, you pack monster loot into a tight grid, build item synergies, and auto-battle up her tower. Players like: Synergy Buildcraft · Pot Inventory Puzzles · Distinctive Pixel Art ·
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Defeated by a witch and turned into a pot! Slay strangely beautiful monster girls, pack their materials into your cramped pot, and build synergies. Stronger synergies make MSG rain faster, cutting item cooldowns. Climb the tower and reclaim your body in this inventory autobattler roguelite!

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!

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Roguebook - Players say: Lead two heroes through a shifting book, uncover its map with ink, and build a deck for turn-based battles. Players like: Ink-Driven Map Exploration · Two-Hero Positioning · Hero Pair Synergies ·
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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!

Mech Armada - Players say: Build a squad from modular Mech parts, then outmaneuver the Swarm in grid-based battles across procedurally generated runs. Players like: Custom Mech Builds · Tactical Grid Combat · Build Experimentation ·
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Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2 - Players say: Make choices as a royal heir in a card-driven medieval story where each decision shapes your rule, paths, and endings. Players like: Branching Story Paths · Many Different Endings · Absurd Medieval Humor ·
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Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2

Choice of Life: Middle Ages - Players say: Guide a peasant through medieval life by choosing illustrated cards that shape their work, survival, and path through the kingdom. Players like: Humorous Scenarios · Alternate Routes · Illustrated Art ·
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A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Tower Tactics: Liberation - Players say: Defend against the Salkoth by playing tower and spell cards, shaping a deck, and navigating a changing roguelike map. Players like: Tower-Deck Fusion · Distinct Deck Builds · Tower-Spell Combos ·
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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!

Zet Zillions - Players say: Guide Foam Gun and the planet-ship Baby Violence through space, building card decks and using fusion and population tactics to seek humanity’s new home. Players like: Expressive Art Style · Fusion And Population · Characters And Voice Acting ·
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Zet Zillions is a single-player roguelike deckbuilder where you use your cards to make freakish combinations and explode entire planets. BIG-BADDA-BOOM!

He is Coming - Players say: Explore a darkening realm for gear, combine item synergies, and face auto-battled Demon King minions before time runs out. Players like: Build Experimentation · Short Runs · Strategic Boss Prep ·
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Deep in the forgotten corners of the world, a dark force stirs – the Demon King rises once more. Sharpen your wits, seek out powerful artifacts, and stand firm in the face of the apocalypse in this roguelite RPG auto battler.

9 Kings - Players say: Choose a king, arrange cards into a synergistic 3×3 kingdom, and withstand rival armies in escalating auto-battles. Players like: Build Synergies · Distinct Kings · Addictive Runs ·
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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 - Players say: Rebuild a ruined fantasy kingdom by managing resources, recruiting defenders, and surviving nightly monster attacks across repeat runs. Players like: Unit Combinations · Map Exploration · Pixel Art ·
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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!

Breachway - Players say: Captain a warship across a branching galaxy, shaping an equipment-driven card deck for turn-based space battles. Players like: Equipment-Driven Decks · Ship Build Variety · Tactical Space Combat ·
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Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.

Backpack Hero - Players say: Arrange backpack items to shape your build, then take it into turn-based dungeon battles across roguelike runs. Players like: Backpack Build Puzzles · Distinct Hero Styles · Addictive Dungeon Runs ·
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The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!

ROUNDS - Players say: A 2D duel shooter where you shoot, block, and jump through rounds, drafting upgrades after losses to counter your rival. Players like: Fun With Friends · Chaotic Card Combos · Modded Replayability ·
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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.

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.
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.
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!
Dogpile - Players say: Drop dog cards into a physics-driven yard, merge matching pups, and shape a roguelike deck before the pile overflows. Players like: Cute Dog Art · Satisfying Merges · Strategic Tag Combos ·
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Dogpile is a roguelike deck builder about merging cute dogs into bigger dogs. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special Traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS! DOGS!

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Cube Chaos - Players say: Place ability-driven cubes, build interacting armies and defenses, and adapt your strategy against an opposing force each run. Players like: Unexpected Cube Synergies · Creative Run Builds · High Replay Variety ·
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Cube Chaos is a complex strategy roguelike about placing units to create giant armies, factories, combos, or self replicating murder crabs, overwhelming and outsmarting your opponents. Build and adapt new strategies each run using a ludicrous variety of units, perks and more.

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.
Barrel Roll - Barrel Roll is a roguelike deckbuilder, turn based, taking place in a futuristic far west. The deck ? A 6 slot revolver barrel. Gather bullets with special effects, customize your revolver's barrel to create strong synergies and take down as much criminals as you can.
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!
Circadian Dice - Players say: Lead heroes against a time-looping cosmic force, reshaping dice and combining abilities to win tactical, turn-based fights. Players like: Dice-Building Combos · Varied Heroes and Relics · Replayable Short Runs ·
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Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!

Top Rated

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

Balatro - Players say: Build poker hands, reshape your deck with Jokers and other cards, and chase rising score targets in roguelike runs. Players like: Replayable Runs · Joker Synergies · Easy to Learn ·
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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 - Players say: Climb a shifting tower through turn-based card battles, choosing cards and relics to shape a different deck each run. Players like: Deep Deckbuilding · Distinct Character Styles · Fresh Runs ·
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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!

StarVaders - Players say: Pilot a mech against descending alien waves, using cards and grid positioning to stop them before Doom fills. Players like: Distinct Mech Playstyles · Tactical Grid Combat · Satisfying Card Combos ·
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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 - Players say: Shape tetromino-like mazes to reroute monsters, then place and upgrade towers through a roguelite tower-defense run. Players like: Custom Maze Building · Varied Tower Choices · Replayable Runs ·
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Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!

Omelet You Cook - Players say: As a school cook, choose conveyor-belt ingredients and arrange scoring synergies into omelets for quirky animal customers. Players like: Ingredient Synergy Builds · Replayable Run Variety · Charming Pixel Art ·
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The cozy chaotic cooking roguelike. Assemble omelets for quirky students using ingredients from a conveyor belt. Discover wacky combinations to satisfy the ever-demanding Principal Clucker.

Monster Train - Players say: Build a demon deck and position units across a three-floor train to stop Heaven's forces from reaching the pyre above. Players like: Clan Combinations · Multi-Floor Battles · Unit Card Synergies ·
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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.

DICEOMANCER - Players say: A fishing trip turns into a roguelike card battle, where dice let you rewrite on-screen numbers to reshape fights and builds. Players like: Number-Changing Dice · Creative Deck Builds · Hand-Drawn Art ·
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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.

Cobalt Core - Players say: Lead a crew through a time loop in a card-driven space roguelike, dodging fire and lining up ship weapons in lane-based battles. Players like: Tactical Lane Combat · Character Banter · Memorable Soundtrack ·
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A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

Die in the Dungeon: Origins - Players say: Guide Lisver through a strange dungeon, building and combining action dice to battle monsters in turn-based roguelike runs. Players like: Strategic Dice Builds · Satisfying Combinations · Replayable Runs ·
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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!

Monster Train 2 - Players say: Command an angel-demon train crew, build a deck, and defend its three floors from waves climbing toward your Pyre. Players like: Clan Build Variety · Satisfying Card Synergies · Abundant Extra Content ·
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Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.

Shogun Showdown - Players say: Plan each turn in a narrow battlefield, chaining weapon and movement tiles to survive enemy waves and reach the Shogun. Players like: Tactical Puzzle Combat · Satisfying Attack Combos · Pixel Art and Music ·
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Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!

My Card Is Better Than Your Card! - Players say: Compete in a neighborhood card tournament by crafting sticker-powered decks and winning turn-based star tug-of-war battles. Players like: Sticker Card Crafting · Powerful Combo Discovery · Charming Art and Music ·
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Become the coolest kid of the playground in this playful roguelike deckbuilder. Craft every card yourself with adorable stickers and wow your rivals in tug-of-war card battles full of wonder!