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01 Knock on the Coffin Lid Cover

2024 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Knock on the Coffin Lid

86%

Help the main character, that has risen from the kingdom of dead, return home and fulfill his destiny. Unravel the tangle of plot intricacies and the motives of the characters - or let fate lead you.

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Words Can Kill

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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02 Slay the Spire Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Slay the Spire

83%

Slay the Spire is a single-player roguelike deck-building game. Players choose from four characters, each with a unique set of cards, and attempt to climb a procedurally generated spire consisting of multiple floors of increasingly difficult enemies and bosses...

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Words Can Kill

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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03 Trials of Fire Cover

2021 · PC

Trials of Fire

83%

Trials of Fire is a single player, turn-based strategy game set in a post-cataclysmic fantasy realm.

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Words Can Kill

83% Starker DNA-Match
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✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Roguelike Game feel ✓ Role-playing Game feel
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04 Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder Cover

2022 · Switch, PC

Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder

83%

Nadir is a roguelike deck-builder with a twist: the cost to play a card is an enemy reaction you can predict. Craft your own cards to slay powerful demons. Gather resources, expand your city, grow in power and conquer the underworld.

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Words Can Kill

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Roguelike Game feel
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05 Tamarak Trail Cover

2024 · Switch, PC, PS4

Tamarak Trail

82%

In this deck-building roguelike, you'll use a customizable dice set as you battle through randomly generated trails - full of loot, mysteries, and danger to protect inhabitants from the evil that has corrupted the trail.

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Words Can Kill

82% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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06 SpellRogue Cover

2025 · PC

SpellRogue

79%

SpellRogue is a turn-based, deckbuilding roguelike where you cast powerful spells using your Mana Dice, gain legendary artifacts, upgrade your spells and experiment with potent combinations to annihilate the Voidwalkers corrupting the world.

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Words Can Kill

79% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Roguelike Game feel
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07 Night of Full Moon Cover

2017 · Android, PC, iOS

Night of Full Moon

75%

"Night of Full Moon" is a deck-building game based on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. You play as Red herself, battle against monsters with cards to save your beloved grandma. You can build your own deck with the cards you collect through the adventure.

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Words Can Kill

75% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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08 For the King Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

For the King

74%

For The King is a turn based roguelike, RPG that can be played solo or cooperatively online and features strategic adventuring, turn based combat, and persistent choices. Players must survive cunning enemies and creatures, wicked weather and brutal traps in th...

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Words Can Kill

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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09 Monster Train Cover

2020 · Android, Switch, PC

Monster Train

70%

Hell has frozen over. Only you can protect the final burning pyre from the forces of heaven and restore the inferno. Monster Train brings a new strategic layer to roguelike deckbuilding, with three vertical playing fields to defend. Includes the released updat...

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Words Can Kill

70% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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10 Dicey Dungeons Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dicey Dungeons

70%

Fighting against fortune would be a lot easier if you weren't a walking dice.

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70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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11 Griftlands Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Griftlands

70%

Griftlands is a deck-building rogue-like where you fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect. Death comes quickly, but each play offers...

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Words Can Kill

70% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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12 Backpack Hero Cover

2023 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Backpack Hero

70%

Backpack Hero is the inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your bag, and vanquish your foes!

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Words Can Kill

70% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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13 Power Chord Cover

2023 · PC

Power Chord

70%

Power Chord is a rock'n roguelite deck-building game. Assemble Earth's mightiest musicians, battle your way through legions of demons, discover new cards to enhance your instruments of destruction, and take back the city, one dive bar at a time.

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Words Can Kill

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Roguelike Game feel
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14 Darkest Dungeon II Cover

2023 · Mac, Switch, PC

Darkest Dungeon II

67%

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Red Hook's smash hit gothic horror RPG! DDII will test your mettle and drive you to the brink of madness. Armor yourself with purpose and provision your party for the journey ahead. It will be arduous.

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Words Can Kill

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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15 Black Book Cover

2021 · Mac, Switch, PC

Black Book

67%

A fusion of card-based RPGs and Adventure games, “Black Book” is a haunting tale of a young sorceress, who gave her life to serve the dark forces. Dive into the cold, yet alluring world of folk tales - and uncover the secrets that hide in the darkness.

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Words Can Kill

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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16 Ancient Enemy Cover

2020 · PC

Ancient Enemy

67%

An unusual, strategic RPG card game from the makers of Shadowhand and Regency Solitaire. "Awakening from centuries of slumber, a fallen mage returns to battle twisted folkloric foe across sprawling, ghostly landscapes. His ultimate destination: the nameless a...

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Words Can Kill

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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17 Darkest Dungeon Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Darkest Dungeon

65%

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 h...

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Words Can Kill

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Turn-based strategy (TBS) Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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18 Curious Expedition Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Curious Expedition

65%

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

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Words Can Kill

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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19 Deck of Ashes Cover

2019 · PC

Deck of Ashes

65%

Deck of Ashes is an adventure game with tactical card combat. Lead the cast of antiheroes on a quest for redemption. Explore the cursed fantasy world and hunt down powerful cards. Forge a unique Battle Deck, and crush your foes! Can you rid the world of the As...

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Words Can Kill

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Role-playing Game feel
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20 Loop Hero Cover

2021 · Android, Linux, Mac

Loop Hero

64%

The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.

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Words Can Kill

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Card & Board Game Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Role-playing (RPG) Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Roguelike Game feel
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