Deckbuilders like The Shadow Architect

Still thinking about The Shadow Architect and its dark and replayable tone? These deckbuilders keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Urban Cards
Urban Cards is a cutthroat capitalist roguelike deckbuilder. Build your business empire, steal from your opponents, and amass a fortune to win in a satiric unfair world.
Replayable, Funny
75% of 157 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cardboard Town
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game where your town grows one drawn hand at a time. You play building, action, quest and road cards to balance money, water, electricity, environment and safety, survive disasters, and chase a high score before three Red Alerts end the run.
Replayable
79% of 2,069 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Cardopolis
Cardopolis puts you in the mayor's chair with a deck of buildings and laws instead of a budget spreadsheet. You lay down houses and factories card by card, pass legislation to shape growth, and race to hit each sector's population goal before your investors lose patience.
Replayable
71% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$4.89
Vertical Kingdom
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!
Replayable
75% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Concrete Jungle
A city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.
Replayable, Funny
89% of 325 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Prime Monster
A card-based political roguelite in a parliament of literal monsters. Win debates, bully your own party, survive scandals and force absurd laws through, all while juggling authority, cash and the polls. Genuinely funny, sharply written and hard to put down after one run.
Replayable, Funny
83% of 320 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Dawnmaker
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!
Dark, Replayable
91% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.49
Slash Cash
A turn-based simulation game, where you manage a game development company. You can choose to run the company honestly and diligently or resort to some unconventional methods.
Replayable, Funny
40% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$2.59
Cult Leader Simulator
Strategize, discover new cards, control risk, gather followers and increase your power. You are the leader of your own cult!
Dark, Replayable, Surreal
50% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
These Doomed Isles
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Replayable
66% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Wild City
The deckbuilder where cards are plants, animals, and insects that can synergize and prey on each other. Place your cards on an expanding board to trigger satisfying chain reactions and shape an interconnected ecosystem.
Replayable, Funny
88% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Kingdom's Deck
Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you rule a small medieval realm: build farms, mills, walls and barracks by day, then hold the line by night. Every card is a choice about food, wood, gold or soldiers, and the wrong pick stings later. Colorful, tense and easy to restart for one more try.
Replayable
71% of 513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99

Cheaper than The Shadow Architect

Cardopolis

Cardopolis puts you in the mayor's chair with a deck of buildings and laws instead of a budget spreadsheet.

$4.89

Slash Cash

A turn-based simulation game, where you manage a game development company.

$2.59

Hearth & Shadow

Hearth & Shadow - is a card-based strategy game where you develop your settlement and defend it from monster invasions.

$0.99

Card Homestead

Card Homestead is a roguelike deckbuilder where card placement decides everything.

$4.19

Hell Deck

You run Hell's last holdout against invading angels, feeding your own demons to each other until the weak ones mutate into apex predators.

ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER

Your house needs a deck. You have a hammer. Freedom is $1,000,000.

$3.99

Relapse

A 3D deck building roguelike game. Collect over 240 abilities; level them up, enchant them, pair them up with over 100 trinkets, and synergize them…

$3.99

Ming Dynasty: Cards & Court

A Ming Dynasty official promotion simulator that integrates the exhilarating roguelike card-settling mechanics of Luck be a Landlord.

$1.99

TaxingTiles

Shape your realm. Conquer chaos. Unveil mysteries. Deck-building roguelike fun!

$2.99

Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder

Push your luck turn by turn, drawing one more card for bigger damage or stopping before it all goes wrong, in a bright comic-book wasteland.

$4.95

Aeon's End

Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!

$4.94

Liberte

Liberté is a deck-builder roguelite inspired by the French Revolution and body horror.

$4.24

Hidden gems like The Shadow Architect

Rana Card

A farm management deckbuilder where you hit TimeTech's KPI targets with spells, plants, animals and buildings.

$12.99

Rogue Hex

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x.

$19.99

Prime Monster

Fight for votes in a monster parliament, break the rules, and cling to the top job by any means necessary.

$19.99

As We Descend

As We Descend is a roguelike deckbuilder about leading squads into the deep and keeping them alive back in the last city of humanity.

$19.99

Crush the Industry

Work your way to the top of a cutthroat game studio in this retro roguelike deckbuilder!

$14.99

Deck of Haunts

You are the haunted house, not the visitor. By day you lay out rooms and traps around your Heart room, by night you play screams, phantoms and…

$19.99

Dawnmaker

Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game.

$7.49

Crop Rotation

Crop Rotation is a farming-theme card drafting game. Cards are played automatically so you can focus on the deck building and building synergies.

$9.99

WitchHand

You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization.

$11.99

Insider Trading

Play market-moving cards, chase a weekly target, and learn the hard way when to stop pushing your luck.

$6.44

The Royal Writ

Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy.

$14.99

Terracards

Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and…

$6.29

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