The 22 Best Games Like Monster Train, Ranked

We merged card games and roguelikes. This made the best single-player deckbuilder. Craft a unique deck. Face strange creatures. Find relics of great power. Play Slay the Spire!

Balatro is a deck-building roguelite. Players build poker hands to earn chips and beat enemy blinds. The game features mechanics for boosting a card deck. Players buy Jokers that change hand effects. Discover synergies to move through tough fights.

Go on co-op adventures in Inkbound. This is an online roguelike from Monster Train's creators. Craft strong character builds in random runs. Battle the inky hordes with a unique active battle system.

Wildfrost puts you to the test with its tactical roguelike deckbuilder. Journey across a frozen tundra. Collect cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter.

Diceomancer is a roguelike deck-building game. Fate forced you into an adventure despite wanting peace. Make the most of your deck and dice in a world of swords, magic, and guns. Restore the calm you once knew.

Fighting fortune becomes easier if you are not a walking dice.

Inscryption is an inky, black card odyssey. It mixes deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood smoothie. Secrets written on the cards get darker.

Enter a world full of legendary encounters and stories that change constantly. Craft your cards. Assemble the perfect deck. Defeat the Roguebook itself, or die trying. Roguebook is a single-player roguelike deck-builder set in a randomly generated world.

Darkest Dungeon is a tough gothic roguelike turn-based RPG. It focuses on the mental stress of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against huge horrors, disease, and the encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when hope vanishes?

This is a CCG roguelite experience. Swap cards in and out with your sideboard as you advance. Perfect the best combos. Upgrade and customize your cards with Void Stones. Infuse them with new abilities to beat the minions blocking your path to The Void.

Griftlands is a deck-building rogue-like. You fight and negotiate your way through a broken sci-fi world. Every choice matters: the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you gather. Death strikes fast. Each play offers new situations and strategies. Play as Sal, Rook, or Smith. Three character campaigns offer unique decks, abilities, and maps. Sal seeks profit and revenge. Rook is an aging spy with his own goals. Smith is a lazy loafer who might save the world. Each playable character has their own story.

Hearthstone is a fast-paced strategy card game. It is easy to learn and massively fun. Start a free game on Battle.net. Play cards to sling spells, summon creatures, and command Warcraft heroes in epic duels. Craft or buy powerful prebuilt decks and hundreds of extra cards. Your collection keeps evolving. Challenge players of all skill levels on Battle.net or sharpen your skills in practice matches against Azeroth strategists like Thrall, Uther, and Gul'dan.

Across the Obelisk is an immersive RPG deckbuilding cooperative roguelite. Play solo or with friends. Choose heroes. Craft your deck. Face powerful enemies. Will you dare cross the obelisk?

Tainted Grail: Conquest blends RPG and deck-building roguelikes. Explore changing maps. Fight deadly enemies. Learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.

One Step From Eden mixes strategic deckbuilding and real-time action with roguelike elements. Cast powerful spells instantly. Battle evolving enemies. Collect game-changing artifacts. Make friends or enemies. Make it one step from Eden, the last hope in a bleak post-war world. Fight alone or co-op with a friend and guide your character toward mercy or destruction. Features include: Deckbuilding with 200+ spells and 100+ game-changing items; Action deckbuilding blending bullet hell and card strategy; 8+ Playable characters and Bosses; Life or death.

SpellRogue is a turn-based, deckbuilding roguelike. You cast powerful spells using your Mana Dice. Gain legendary artifacts. Upgrade your spells. Experiment with potent combinations to destroy the Voidwalkers corrupting the world.

Throne of Bone belongs to the roguelike deck-building genre. Players move through procedurally generated environments. They use strategic card mechanics to advance through challenges.

Play cards. Build your deck for the best combos! In Pirates Outlaws, pick a character with a pre-made deck. Explore and manage your expedition for more gold and reputation. Manage your deck and ammo to defeat enemies using a turn-per-turn combat system.

Circadian Dice mimics single-player deck-building games. Instead of upgrading a deck, you build a set of dice. The game offers 26 scenarios to fight through, each designed for short sessions. Play in different modes, like a single-life Campaign Mode or an endless randomized scenario. Dice reset between games, but you unlock abilities, new characters, and powerful relics for your permanent arsenal.

Hellcard offers cooperative roguelike deckbuilding. Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes exist. Descend paper dungeons alone, recruit computer companions, or join others in fast tactical card battles against darkness and the Archdemon.

Firaxis Games developed and 2K Games published Marvel's Midnight Suns. This tactical RPG uses strategy, role-playing, and card combat in the Marvel Universe. Players act as "The Hunter," a customizable original character, leading Marvel superheroes. The story features battles against Lilith, the Mother of Demons, resurrected by Hydra. Gameplay involves turn-based combat, using ability cards to attack.

Shogun Showdown mixes turn-based combat, rogue-like, and deck-building. Position and attack correctly. Upgrade tiles and combo them to fight the Shogun.