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335 Cards & Deckbuilding games reviewed and scored, best first.
335 reviews
A Hearthstone-flavoured roguelike deckbuilder starring half a dozen parallel-universe versions of Sun Wukong, each with a distinct card pool, wrapped in flashy animated art and let down by punishing difficulty spikes and a rough technical launch.
6.6 / 10
A supermarket-themed asynchronous autobattler that wears its Super Auto Pets influence openly, winning over a large review base with quick, addictive runs while drawing genuine complaints about progression gating, a punishing rank system, and post-launch stability.
6.6 / 10
A Wuxia Spin on Deck-Building, Built Around a Genuinely Novel Grid WuLin Showdown takes the familiar shape of turn-based deck-building roguelikes and wraps it in a martial arts ide
6.6 / 10
A genuinely novel deckbuilding RPG that fuses poker hands with fantasy ability cards, wrapped in lush, fully-voiced presentation -- Very Positive on Steam, but close to half of its negative reviews single out the same confusing interface, and a quarter raise the poker system's luck swings as a real fairness complaint rather than a taste issue.
6.5 / 10
A four-player co-op deckbuilder that solves the genre's most obvious gap — playing Slay the Spire-style card combat as an actual shared party instead of a shared seed — and then spends the years after its Paradox acquisition undermining that achievement with DLC pricing its own community calls predatory.
6.5 / 10
Age of Rivals built a genuinely clever "anti-deckbuilding" card game out of the idea that minimal deck control, not maximal control, is what makes drafting games interesting — and its reviewers, many of whom followed it over from a free Kongregate browser version, largely agree the design holds up against much more recent competition. What's changed since 2017 is that the game's own backend server has since gone dark, quietly breaking the progression system the design was built around.
6.5 / 10
A World the Gods Left Broken, Fought Over One Hex at a Time Ashes of Morgravia sets its dark fantasy tactical deckbuilder in the aftermath of a divine collapse — players lead a God
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer "combat programming roguelike" where you build automated battle scripts out of skills and conditions and then watch them play out, Very Positive on Steam for a genuinely clever core idea -- undercut by a content ceiling most players hit within a handful of hours and a development trail that appears to have gone quiet within weeks of launch.
6.5 / 10
A physics-driven pachinko roguelike that calls itself the first "autobonker" — a genuinely satisfying opening few hours undone, by its own players' account, when the item pool keeps growing without any way to reliably draw the pieces that combo together, punishing the very meta-progression the game is built around.
6.5 / 10
A visually striking fantasy deckbuilder roguelike set in a crumbling underground city, praised almost universally for its art and animation — held back by real complaints about character variety, run-to-run randomness, and a price some reviewers felt didn't match its content at launch, several of which the developer has since directly addressed.
6.5 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder that fuses Scrabble with Balatro, from GoldenEye and TimeSplitters veterans — genuinely praised for its core idea, and shadowed by an AI-art controversy the developers walked back after launch-week backlash.
6.5 / 10
A papercraft love letter to Diablo 1 that lets you set your own dungeon length with a literal on-screen dial — genuinely inventive and warmly reviewed by 90% of its nearly 4,000 players, while a consistent minority argue its card system is really just reskinned gear and its rail-movement combat wears thin well before the credits.
6.5 / 10
A first-person, 3D dark-fantasy incremental about grading and fusing cards off a conveyor belt, praised as a genuinely surprising twist on the clicker formula but marked down by a recurring, specific complaint about motion sickness from its camera.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based, Slay the Spire-style deckbuilding roguelite from INTI CREATES that plays out on a 3x3 grid reminiscent of Mega Man Battle Network without actually being one, whose genuinely inventive card systems and anime-culture celebration win over most players once expectations reset, even as a persistent minority never gets past that initial mismatch or the game's maximalist, divisive dialogue.
6.5 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder where placement matters more than the cards themselves — draft one of three each day, stack it onto a shrinking farm grid, and chase chain-reaction synergy before rising taxes end the run — with a launch-week freeze bug the developer has already patched and a genuine split over how hard the game actually is.
6.5 / 10
Sitting Down at Death's Table Cheat Death puts you across a felt-covered table from the Grim Reaper himself, wagering your life on hands of dice poker instead of the usual rogu
6.5 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder that swaps dungeon crawling for an NBA-style season, from Big Ambitions developer Bigosaur -- a genuinely novel mashup that a fifth of its reviewers say plays itself once the deck-building decisions run out.
6.5 / 10
A roguelike pinball deckbuilder -- flip, nudge and smash through cursed tables while stacking 100+ upgrades into game-breaking builds -- praised by real pinball fans for genuinely scratching the itch, and criticised by a detailed, dev-engaged review corpus for repetitive early tables, snowballing balance, and game-breaking bugs uncommon for a full 1.0 release.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeously animated Slay the Spire-style deckbuilder set in Old Rus folklore, whose visual polish and hero variety earn genuine respect from genre veterans, tempered by a widely repeated complaint that card and relic balance issues make higher-difficulty runs feel more like a fight against unfair RNG than a rewarding strategic challenge.
6.5 / 10
Figuring out exactly how you're being cheated Dice Eater is a free deduction card game set in the world of Team Tetrapod's Staffer Case series, built around a simple but ge
6.5 / 10
A dice-driven, Slay the Spire-adjacent roguelite wrapped around a genuinely ambitious visual-novel retelling of Chinese mythology across seven playable protagonists, praised by a small but unusually devoted English-speaking audience as a hidden gem, with a real, disputed question hanging over how complete its English localisation actually is.
6.5 / 10
A gothic antique-shop roguelike that fuses Balatro-style combo scoring with Resident Evil-style spatial inventory puzzling into a genuinely addictive, well-liked whole, held back by a lack of difficulty options that frustrates less experienced puzzle players, a progression- blocking bug, and a post-launch bundle discount some early buyers felt undercut their support.
6.5 / 10
Chess Meets Balatro, And Reviewers Can't Stop Saying So Gambonanza, from developer Blukulélé and published by Sidekick Publishing and Stray Fawn Publishing, released on Steam o
6.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive hybrid of deckbuilding, tarot-card dungeon crawling and real-time action combat, Very Positive across more than 3,200 reviews for its distinctive tabletop presentation — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that the real-time combat is clunky and shallow, and a separate, well-corroborated complaint that random-event outcomes skew punishingly against the player as runs progress.
6.5 / 10
