Deckbuilders: The Best Today, Top Demos, Coming Soon 12/25

[Zed Clampet]

Current Deckbuilder Top Sellers​

Save 15% on Balatro on Steam

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.

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Save 90% on Slay the Spire on Steam

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!

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Morimens on Steam

Morimens is a roguelite card-building game inspired by the Cthulhu mythos, where you craft a versatile and intricate deck tailored to your playstyle. The choice is yours to embark on a climb up treacherous towers or engage in tactical battles. Explore misty maps and uncover the truth of the world.

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Save 50% on 9 Kings on Steam

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.

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Save 20% on Monster Train 2 on Steam

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.

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Save 50% on Across the Obelisk on Steam

Set forth in a co-op roguelite deckbuilder where every choice matters! Craft decks of breathtaking power. Journey alone or with up to three friends. Plot your party’s path to glory and face powerful enemies in deep tactical combat on your quest to save the kingdom of Senenthia in Across the Obelisk!

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Save 20% on Decktamer on Steam

Deck-building meets monster catching in this turn-based roguelike. Recruit enemy cards to your party as you dive into the depths of the abyss. Will you kill them or will you tame them?

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Save 40% on Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers on Steam

Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.

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[Zed Clampet]

Top Deckbuilder Demos

Journey to the Void Demo on Steam

Fend off attacks from all directions in this roguelite strategy-deck builder. Battle foes in grid-based combat, collect unique cards to build powerful synergies, and make tough decisions during strange encounters as you restore the corrupted land.

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Dice A Million Demo on Steam

Have you ever tried to roll 1,000,000 on a set of dice? No? Build the right bag of die, and you might just pull it off.

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IRONHIVE on Steam

Ironhive is a deckbuilding strategy game about surviving in a dying world. Build your colony, ensure the survival of your people, create a legacy that will be passed on to the next generations. As the Ironlord, you are their only remaining hope.

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Arcane Eats on Steam

A roguelike deckbuilder with a delicious twist. Think like a master chef, balancing resources as you strategically combo ingredients to subdue hungry hordes. Recruit a legendary kitchen crew, and rise through the heroic cooking guilds—before The Hunger consumes us all!

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Magin: The Rat Project Stories on Steam

Magin is an exciting combination of a narrative-driven adventure game with a deck-building card battler. The branching plot, comic book aesthetic, full voice-over, and game mechanics are tightly intertwined in a unique, dark fantasy world.

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Insider Trading on Steam

Insider Trading is a roguelike deckbuilder where you bend the market to your will. Synergize perks, manipulate stock prices, and trade wisely or risk pricing yourself out.

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Goblin Sushi on Steam

In this rogue-like restaurant-action-sim, you play as a goblin that has the dream of becoming a sushi chef. Upgrade the restaurant, the menu and your ingredients to feed your fellow goblins the best and most expensive sushi any goblin can find in the cave!

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Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾 on Steam

Choose your mech, customize your loadout, and build your perfect deck. Experiment with cards to find powerful combinations as you enjoy the tactical combat and deckbuilding in this roguelike adventure!

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Roots Devour on Steam

Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and embrace demise. A new god graced the inhabitants of the forest on that fateful day. Roots Devour is a management strategy game. Drink blood to sustain your existence and seize dominion over the mysterious forest for greater power.

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Pluto on Steam

A roguelike deckbuilder where you cast elemental spells, outwit monstrous foes, and escape prison on your way to your niece’s birthday party.

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[Zed Clampet]

Deckbuilders Coming Soon

Slay the Spire 2 on Steam

The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!

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Journey to the Void on Steam

Prepare to fend off attacks from all directions in this hybrid strategy roguelite deck builder. On your journey through varied grid-based biomes, battle unique foes and make tough moral choices to restore a corrupted land and decide the fate of your world.

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Dice A Million on Steam

Have you ever tried to roll 1,000,000 on a set of dice? No? Build the right bag of die, and you might just pull it off.

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Multi Deck Hero on Steam

Multi Deck Hero is a roguelike deckbuilder where you command three unique decks to create powerful synergies. Strategically combine cards, unlock game-changing charms, and battle against increasingly powerful enemies. Will you master the perfect deck or fall to the challenge?

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Ragtag Heroes : CO-OP Deckbuilder on Steam

Team up in Ragtag Heroes, a co-op roguelike deckbuilder for up to 3 players. Rally your party, craft powerful decks, and control the flow of battle as you face corrupted worlds that change every run! With new synergies, challenges, and surprises each time, no two adventures are ever alike.

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Tabulo on Steam

Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike. Enhance your pieces, purchase powers, and win bonuses from optional challenges, but be careful - your board only has so much room.

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[Pifanjr]

Top Deckbuilder Demos

Journey to the Void Demo on Steam

Fend off attacks from all directions in this roguelite strategy-deck builder. Battle foes in grid-based combat, collect unique cards to build powerful synergies, and make tough decisions during strange encounters as you restore the corrupted land.

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Dice A Million Demo on Steam

Have you ever tried to roll 1,000,000 on a set of dice? No? Build the right bag of die, and you might just pull it off.

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Thank you, I love deckbuilding demos.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I actually intended to buy 2 copies of Across the Obelisk, but as I looked more closely at this Paradox published game, it has definitely received the Paradox treatment. Just a relatively simple game with 13 DLC. According to reviews, it plays like a mobile game, always encouraging you to buy stuff. So I'm going to just pass on this.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Thank you, I love deckbuilding demos.

I might go see if I can find some more. I was in a hurry earlier and these were the only ones listed on the main deckbuilder page.

 

[Pifanjr]

I tried out the Dice A Million demo, it's pretty good. It's really similar to other deckbuilding roguelites, but using dice instead of cards gives some new options, like having dice that affect other dice that end up close to them.

Each round you get a set number of rolls to get to a specific goal. Each roll you select up to five dice from your hand of eight to roll, then add the number of pips to your total (after all effects and such).

Any points over the goal are transferred to the next round, but can also be spend in a shop between rounds. These points are wiped out completely before the boss round though, so you need to spend them before then and balance spending early with needing enough to make each goal.

I'm still struggling a bit to make a deck that performs well consistently at later rounds, but there are quite a few possible strategies I haven't tried out yet.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I tried out the Dice A Million demo, it's pretty good. It's really similar to other deckbuilding roguelites, but using dice instead of cards gives some new options, like having dice that affect other dice that end up close to them.

Each round you get a set number of rolls to get to a specific goal. Each roll you select up to five dice from your hand of eight to roll, then add the number of pips to your total (after all effects and such).

Any points over the goal are transferred to the next round, but can also be spend in a shop between rounds. These points are wiped out completely before the boss round though, so you need to spend them before then and balance spending early with needing enough to make each goal.

I'm still struggling a bit to make a deck that performs well consistently at later rounds, but there are quite a few possible strategies I haven't tried out yet.

I'll play it again tomorrow. I just played for about 15 minutes finished the 100 level but I kept falling asleep so bedtime for zed...

 

[Pifanjr]

I tried the Journey to the Void demo, but the boss fight is way too hard. It seems the only way to win is to get the perfect rewards in the previous encounters and then draw the perfect cards during the fight itself. Or maybe I just suck.

 

[Pifanjr]

Unlike Journey to the Void, Arcane Eats is quite easy. However, I suspect that the full game will be more challenging, as there were quite a few mechanics that looked like they could become problematic. And even if the demo was quite limited, it looked quite promising.

 

[Pifanjr]

Insider Trading is a bit odd. The goal of the game is to manipulate the stock price in order to make money. Each turn you get a queue of cards that modify the stock price up or down and you get the (limited) ability to move or replace cards. After you're done editing the queue you have to choose whether to buy that turn or skip. If you choose to buy, you spend your entire budget on stocks and then sell them once the queue has been processed. So obviously you only want to buy if you know the stock price will go up.

One big problem with this is that the game gives you no tools to figure out what the end result will be of your queue. Considering that your queue size starts at 10 and most cards modify the stock price by a certain percentage, it's a bit of a bother manually figuring out what the end result will be.

Which is a problem even if you're sure that you're going to increase the stock price by a ton. A game is divided in 4 weeks each of 5 turns and at the end of a week you need to have reached a certain goal, after which your budget gets reset. However, the stock price stays the same. I ended one week making a ridiculous amount of money with an insane combo, but when my budget was reset I didn't have enough money to even buy a single stock. Since you don't get anything for going above the goal, I just shot myself in the foot by making that much money.

I think it's an interesting premise and I actually did get quite far by pure intuition, but I also got surprised several times because the stock price did the opposite of what I expected.

 

[Pifanjr]

Roots Devour is not a deckbuilding game. While you do have a deck of cards, you cannot edit it, I don't think it reshuffles when it is out and you have very limited control over what goes into it.

Instead, Roots Devour is a game where you play as a malevolent plant expanding your roots through a pre-made map filled with interactive cards. Most cards are either resource nodes, obstacles or empty nodes. Every time you expand to a nearby card you have to pay depending on how far it is. The goal is to expand without running out of resources.

The deck of cards comes into play when there is a large gap to the next group of cards, in which case you can pay to draw three cards from your deck and put them in an open space.

If you do run out of resources you get some points based on how far you've gotten which you can then spend on upgrades, after which you can restart.

The gameplay feels really good despite being fairly simplistic and while the story is very minimalistic, it's still intriguing and the game has a great atmosphere.

 

[Pifanjr]

Like Roots Devour, IRONHIVE is not a deckbuilding game, it's a resource management game that uses a deck of cards. The deck of cards does play a bigger role than in Roots Devour and there are cards that stay in the deck, but most of the cards are just spent once you've used them.

IRONHIVE reminds me a lot of Frostpunk, in that I have no idea of what to prioritize and by the time I figure out that I've messed up it's probably too late to fix it. I did manage to win the demo, but I think that's only because the demo was too short for me to find out the consequences of my shortcomings.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Like Roots Devour, IRONHIVE is not a deckbuilding game,

Steam tags for the win. Since they were all listed as deckbuilders, I just opened the store page and looked at the screenshots to see if there were cards or similar. I saw a hockey manager game listed as a rougelike autobattler. It irritates me that this is actually correct.

Speaking of sports, I got this a few weeks ago:

Clutchtime™: Basketball Deckbuilder on Steam

Build your perfect deck and become a Champion.

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It's definitely a deckbuilder. No demo though.

 

[Pifanjr]

Jupiter Moons: Mecha is a deckbuilding game, with a bit of a twist. The cards in your deck come from the components you install in your mech, with each component adding 1-4 cards. Each component also changes the health and armour of the part it is installed in (arms, legs, torso and head), as well as the likelihood it will be hit when you're attacked. If a component breaks, you cannot use the cards from the components of that part, but this is true for enemies as well, so with a bit of luck you can prevent an enemy from doing the action it planned.

Fights take quite a bit longer than most deckbuilding games. Both you and enemies have a decent amount of health and get frequent opportunities to heal. This is not a game where you set up a big combo to wipe out an enemy in one strike, instead you slowly whittle away at your enemies while trying to keep up your own defenses.

It seems like the full game will have a bunch more stuff to do in between combats besides swapping components, but even in its simplified form I quite enjoyed the game.

 

[Pifanjr]

Goblin Sushi is not a deckbuilder. In fact, it doesn't feature cards at all, it just has passive upgrades you pick throughout the game. Still fun to try once though.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Goblin Sushi is not a deckbuilder. In fact, it doesn't feature cards at all, it just has passive upgrades you pick throughout the game. Still fun to try once though.

Oops. I looked at the video and mistook the upgrades for cards. Obviously, I needed to be more careful when making this thread.

 

[Pifanjr]

Pluto doesn't give you many opportunities to edit your deck. I didn't see any options to upgrade or delete cards from your deck and I only got the option to choose 1 of 3 cards to add to my deck a couple of times.

Other than that, it's a fantastic deckbuilding game. Every spell card uses 2 to 4 magic symbols which have to be assigned to your 8 fingers. If the symbols of two spells overlap, you might be able to re-use one or more of the fingers and every finger that isn't used gives you 3 shield. You also get rings every so often that you can assign to a specific finger which will then trigger if a spell with a specific symbol is cast using that finger. Add in an artifact or a temporary badge that adds buffs on specific conditions and enemies cursing your fingers to trigger bad things when those fingers are used for casting spells and every turn becomes a puzzle to figure out which spells to assign to which fingers.

 

[Zed Clampet]

This game doesn't have a demo, sadly, but is made by the Pal World devs, and is, appropriately, the most bizarre-looking deckbuilding game I've ever seen.

Overdungeon on Steam

A completely new style real-time card battle "Overdungeon" Overdungeon combines rogue-like, tower defense and card games. More than 100 cards are Attack, Animal, Building, Spell, Trap, etc..Build your creative and crazy deck!

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