Popular scary deckbuilding games

Fungal dungeons, haunted hotels and folklore beasts give you little room to feel safe in these popular scary deckbuilding games. Shroom and Gloom, THE SPIRIT LIFT and Hungry Horrors all ask you to draft and upgrade cards for turn-based fights, then reshape the deck after each battle while something hunts, haunts or hungers nearby.

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1. Shroom and Gloom

   

   Shroom and Gloom is a first-person roguelike double-deckbuilder set in hand-drawn dungeons full of fungal foes. You build a combat deck for turn-based fights and an explore deck for dungeons, grow cards into overpowered abominations, and eat roasted enemies to heal. Strange, funny, and built for mega-combos.

   93%93% of 2,040 Steam reviews are positive205Players online now: 205$14.99

2. Hungry Horrors

   

   A story-driven deckbuilder where you play a very reluctant princess feeding the folklore monsters of the British Isles. You cook real dishes like Toad in the Hole, chain salty, sweet and savoury flavours to fill their hunger, and grow your deck one recipe at a time.

   98%98% of 250 Steam reviews are positive21Players online now: 21$14.99

3. THE SPIRIT LIFT

   

   A retro horror deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel in the 1990s. Choose your teens, explore and fight! If you die rewind the night!

   94%94% of 118 Steam reviews are positive9Players online now: 9$19.99

4. Burn With Me

   

   Burn With Me is a story-heavy deckbuilder about occult university students trying to summon a Personal Demon. You place creatures for position-based synergies, then permanently burn cards to reshape your deck mid-run. Six chapters follow different fears and obsessions, wrapped in hand-drawn art mixed with real-life video.

   92%92% of 388 Steam reviews are positive30Players online now: 30$14.99

5. Decktamer

   

   Decktamer is a turn-based roguelike where your deck is a team of abyss creatures you tame instead of collecting. You decide whether to kill each enemy or recruit it, knowing any creature that dies is gone forever. For deckbuilder fans who want drafting to feel like hunting, trading blows, and stitching stolen abilities into something strange.

   86%86% of 2,178 Steam reviews are positive117Players online now: 117$15.99

6. BLOODLETTER

   

   You are a medieval barber-surgeon, and your patients are stranger than your remedies. BLOODLETTER is a grim deckbuilder where you treat bizarre villagers with bloodletting, trepanation and worse, keeping their bodies and minds intact while ancient spirits work to corrupt them. Tarot-flavoured cards, hand-drawn grotesques and a tug of war against four dreadful entities make every run feel like a page from a cursed manuscript.

   79%79% of 252 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$12.39

7. 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. Tight grid, brutal waves, big chain reactions: a dark deckbuilder for deckbuilder fans who like cruel math.

   87%87% of 525 Steam reviews are positive327Players online now: 327$1

8. Death Howl

   

   Death Howl is an open-world deckbuilder where you play Ro, a hunter crossing the Spirit Realm to bring her son back. You craft decks from 160+ cards around poison, sacrifice, backstabbing and more, then fight turn-based battles on a grid. Grim, mournful, and built for deckbuilder fans who like rebuilding often.

   92%92% of 1,362 Steam reviews are positive15Players online now: 15$11.99

9. Menace from the Deep

   

   A Lovecraftian roguelike deckbuilder set in 1920s USA, where three heroes with very different decks fight cultists and horrors for a secret society. Draft and upgrade cards, stack relics into sets, and drive between grim events on travel cards. Worth playing for deckbuilder fans who want story, allies, and base-building around their card fights.

   84%84% of 2,520 Steam reviews are positive169Players online now: 169$16.99

10. Shards of Order

    

    Shards of Order is a dark fantasy RPG where three survivors share one deck and fight enemies on visible countdowns. Every card you play moves those clocks, every piece of gear adds new cards, and every restored Law bends the rules back toward order. Worth playing for deckbuilder fans who want timing and party-building in the same decision.

    89%89% of 692 Steam reviews are positive22Players online now: 22$9.99

11. 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 shifting walls to drive explorers mad, then harvest their essence to unlock more cards and rooms. A deckbuilder where the dungeon is you.

    84%84% of 1,302 Steam reviews are positive96Players online now: 96$6.99

12. Winnie's Hole

    

    You are a virus living inside Winnie, spreading through his body with tetromino-like blocks and turning captured cells into a deck of brain actions. Each turn deals abilities onto his Brain board, and you cover them with virus shapes to fire off damage, shields and nasty combos. Dark, hand-drawn and very funny.

    94%94% of 337 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$15.99

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