Games like Roots Devour

If Roots Devour scratched a dark and surreal itch for you, keep reading. Browse these games for your next favorite.

Cultist Simulator
A card game of apocalypse and yearning in a 1920s world of hidden gods. Combine cards to found a cult, translate grimoires and chase forbidden knowledge, with no tutorial to hold your hand. It is difficult, strange and slow to reveal itself, and for patient players that is exactly the appeal.
Dark, Surreal, Replayable
81% of 10,914 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 132$19.99
Sultan's Game
Scheme, spend and sacrifice your way through court politics toward 50+ endings, from loyal servant to kingslayer to god-killer.
Dark, Surreal, Replayable
93% of 25,342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,188$19.99
Inscryption
A card game that traps you in a cabin with a masked dealer. You sacrifice squirrels and wolves to play stronger beasts, pick routes on a map, and get up from the table to pry at the walls around you. It keeps changing shape after that, and going in knowing little makes it land harder.
Also in Deckbuilding · Dark, Surreal, Replayable
96% of 136,199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,791$7.99
Draft of Darkness
Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.
Also in Deckbuilding · Dark, Replayable, Mysterious
94% of 341 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Foretales
Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.
Dark, Replayable, Mysterious
86% of 795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Menace from the Deep
A Lovecraftian roguelike deckbuilder set in 1920s USA. Three investigators, each with their own deck and style, chase the mystery of a strange monolith called the Heart of the Sea. Build your deck, upgrade your base, and hope your sanity holds.
Also in Deckbuilding · Dark, Surreal, Replayable
84% of 2,520 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$16.99
Morimens
Morimens is a roguelite card battler in a Lovecraftian world gone wrong. As the Keeper of Mythag University, you bond with sentient weapons called Awakeners, build decks from the remnants of their power and push into the mists of Kadath, where events get stranger and the truth gets harder to survive. Four Realms, 185+ cards and a story told episode by episode.
Also in Deckbuilding · Dark, Surreal, Replayable
80% of 5,625 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 460Free
Feed The Pit
A cult handed you a deck of magical cards and a simple job: find the wealthy people hiding in Carrister Valley and feed them to the Pit. Deduce their location, dodge the monster hunting you, and unravel a branching story that is funnier and stranger than it has any right to be.
Dark, Surreal, Replayable
97% of 779 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
Out Of Hands
A card-battling trip through a nightmare where your body has turned into hands. Build a deck of strange weapons, fight creatures made of memories, and follow three voices in your head toward the truth. Weird, unsettling and surprisingly moving.
Also in Deckbuilding · Dark, Surreal, Replayable
93% of 1,335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$17.99
Iris and the Giant
Iris and The Giant is a fusion of the CCG, RPG and roguelike genres. You play as Iris, who must brave her fears in her imaginary world. Dive into a melancholic and gripping adventure, filled with cute monsters and buried memories. Ready to face your inner demons?
Also in Deckbuilding · Dark, Surreal, Replayable
87% of 701 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$17.99
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.
Also in Deckbuilding · Dark, Surreal, Replayable
79% of 253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$12.39
The Foretold: Westmark Legacy
Fight to investigate another day in this gothic horror adventure card game. Equip items and relics. Acquire cards and use them wisely to survive what lurks in the darkest corners of town. Take a short and mind-bending dive into the unknown with a cosy horror atmosphere.
Also in Deckbuilding · Dark, Surreal, Replayable
51% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than Roots Devour

Inscryption

Play cards against a masked dealer, then push back from the table and find out what the cabin is hiding.

$7.99

Feed The Pit

Track down the valley's hidden wealthy targets for the cult, all while a monster hunts you through a branching, darkly funny horror story.

$9.99

BLOODLETTER

Treat strange medieval villagers with bloodletting and trepanation, building a tarot-flavoured deck to keep their bodies and minds whole while dark…

$12.39

Rooten

There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you.

$4.99

Dead Town Tales

Dead Town Tales is a game that focuses on strategy card building and core Roguelike gameplay.

$5.99

Stray Path

Flip cards across a cute pixel world, stash loot for later, and choose every step of a run that never plays out the same way twice.

$5.99

Criminal Dissidia

Criminal Dissidia is a Roguelike card game with the adventure and ACG theme.

$12.99

Fhtagn Simulator

Fhtagn Simulator is a Cthulhu Roulette Deckbuilder. Set up card slots on roulette to maximize card's value.

$7.99

Kaya's Prophecy

Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world.

$4.89

Dreadline Express

Dreadline Express is a 1st-person, psychological horror metroidbrainia set aboard the last human train.

$12.99

Deck of Haunts

Build a cursed mansion by day, then play cards after dark to scare intruders out of their minds and feed on what they leave behind.

$6.99

Dream of Corpse Lady

Command an army of puppets, stack blessings and Dark Scripts into wild combos, and see how far this hand-drawn dark fantasy run takes you.

$9.99

Hidden gems like Roots Devour

Feed The Pit

Track down the valley's hidden wealthy targets for the cult, all while a monster hunts you through a branching, darkly funny horror story.

$9.99

Dreadline Express

Dreadline Express is a 1st-person, psychological horror metroidbrainia set aboard the last human train.

$12.99

Death Howl

Guide Ro through a grim spirit world, crafting decks and fighting on a tactical grid to reach her lost son.

$11.99

Burn With Me

Lay cards on a pentagram as an occult student, bargain with your Personal Demon, and pay for what you want in flames.

$14.99

Out Of Hands

Fight your way through a warped dream world with a deck of bizarre weapons, and find out how you became this.

$17.99

The Horror at Highrook

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG.

$19.99

Decktamer

A turn-based roguelike where your deck is made of monsters, and you have to tame them first.

$15.99

Deck of Haunts

Build a cursed mansion by day, then play cards after dark to scare intruders out of their minds and feed on what they leave behind.

$6.99

Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure

A Victorian Steampunk Roguelite Deckbuilder. Choose from four characters with unique cards and abilities.

$13.99

BLOODLETTER

Treat strange medieval villagers with bloodletting and trepanation, building a tarot-flavoured deck to keep their bodies and minds whole while dark…

$12.39

Draft of Darkness

Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration.

$14.99

Roots of Yggdrasil

Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike…

$19.99

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