Games like The Monster Within

Chasing that replayable and hand-drawn feeling you got from The Monster Within? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Decktamer
A turn-based roguelike where your deck is made of monsters, and you have to tame them first. Dive into a colorful, unsettling abyss, steal abilities from one creature and graft them onto another, and try not to lose a card you can never replace. Deckbuilding meets monster catching, with teeth.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Hand-drawn, Scary
85% of 2,190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78$15.99
Monster Slayers
Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle monsters to become a legendary Monster Slayer!
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Colorful
79% of 812 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$8.99
Monster Train
Hell has frozen over, and the last burning pyre rides a train. Monster Train is a roguelike deckbuilder where you defend three floors of a locomotive from the forces of heaven, drafting cards from five wildly different demon clans. Every run is a new deck, a new plan, and usually a new way to lose gloriously.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Hand-drawn, Colorful
95% of 19,993 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$24.99
Blood Card
This card game combines elements of roguelike and deckbuilding. During the game, you shall strive ahead, gathering cards to build a unique deck and use it to defeat the enemies getting in your way. You will have to choose between escaping or try to defeat Death, who is relentlessly pursuing you.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Tense
80% of 667 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Monster X Monster
This is a Rogue-like RPG card game. You team up 4 monsters to escape the castle defeating all the heroes. Monsters need freedom!
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Colorful
79% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Noctiria
Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city. Choose one of six heroes, combine brutal status effects, manage your Sanity and consumable relics, and permanently upgrade your arsenal between descents.
Replayable, Hand-drawn, Scary
90% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure
A Victorian Steampunk Roguelite Deckbuilder. Choose from four characters with unique cards and abilities. Customize your deck and character as you investigate a mysterious plague. Battle corrupted beasts and bosses in turn-based combat to unlock powerful relics and enchanted tarot cards.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Hand-drawn, Scary
83% of 214 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Deck of Souls
Roguelite deck-building meets souls-like. Break out of an infinite loop to close the hell gates, turn enemies into cards, and build your own omnipotent Deck of Souls! Rolls included.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable
84% of 153 Steam reviews are positive$7.19
My Card Is Better Than Your Card!
A roguelike deckbuilder where you build the cards themselves. Stick adorable stickers onto blank cards, stack their effects into absurd creations, then out-cool your rivals in tug-of-war card duels. Cute on the surface, genuinely challenging underneath, and every run plays out differently.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Hand-drawn, Colorful
94% of 1,274 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$14.99
Shroom and Gloom
A first-person roguelike deckbuilder with two decks: one for fighting fungal horrors, one for exploring the dungeon and reshaping your cards. Grow a puny starter attack into a monstrous abomination, roast your enemies and eat them, and push into The Gloom. All hand-drawn, all slightly wrong.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Hand-drawn, Scary
93% of 2,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 246$14.99
Dreamcards
A roguelike deckbuilder about dreams. Choose cards, by combining 6 different strategies during the day, and at night build your deck while facing the nightmare, to uncover a great mystery.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Hand-drawn, Scary
98% of 90 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Deck of Haunts
You are the haunted house. By day, build a maze of cursed rooms around your Heart; by night, play cards that summon phantoms, shift walls and creak floors to drive intruders mad or worse. Harvest their essence, grow your mansion, and face hunters, priests and the Stone Masons. A turn-based deckbuilder where the dungeon is you.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Scary, Surreal
84% of 1,321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$19.99

Cheaper than The Monster Within

Monster Slayers

Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure.

$8.99

Monster X Monster

This is a Rogue-like RPG card game. You team up 4 monsters to escape the castle defeating all the heroes. Monsters need freedom!

$2.99

Noctiria

Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city.

$9.99

Deck of Souls

Roguelite deck-building meets souls-like. Break out of an infinite loop to close the hell gates, turn enemies into cards, and build your own…

$7.19

Dreamcards

A roguelike deckbuilder about dreams. Choose cards, by combining 6 different strategies during the day, and at night build your deck while facing…

$9.99

Cards of Cthulhu

CARDS OF CTHULHU is the Roguelike Card RPG full of madness. Experience the unique combination of strategic deck-building with fast-paced combat and…

$0.99

Monster Tavern

A roguelite deckbuilder where Drinks are your fighters and monsters are your customers.

$11.99

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

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

Dream Quest

Play cards! Kill monsters! Level Up! Dream Quest is a roguelike deckbuilding game inspired by the likes of Ascension, Magic: the Gathering, and…

$9.99

Card Brawl

A mix of Сard games and Roguelikes. Fight with monsters, craft your unique deck and kill bosses.

$1.99

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

Vampire Survivors turned into a first-person dungeon crawl with cards.

$9.99

Hidden gems like The Monster Within

Shroom and Gloom

Fight fungal horrors with one deck, explore and reshape your cards with the other, and push deeper into The Gloom.

$14.99

My Card Is Better Than Your Card!

Stick effects onto blank cards, stack them into absurd combos and duel your rivals in a cute but demanding deckbuilder where every run plays out…

$14.99

Montabi

Build a team of wild creatures, turn their cards into wild combos and take on the X Gang one run at a time.

$19.99

Hell Deck

Command hell's legions on a cramped grid, devour your own units to grow them, and hold the line against a holy purge.

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!

$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

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.

$19.99

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

Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure

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

$19.99

Card Hog

Card Hog is a pig-based dungeon crawler with roguelike and deck building elements.

$5.99

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

Vampire Survivors turned into a first-person dungeon crawl with cards.

$9.99

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