6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Griftlands. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Griftlands.
Release Date: 14/07/2015, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made
Guild of Dungeoneering is a humorous dungeon exploration adventure, but instead of controlling the heroes, you build the dungeon. You play cards to create rooms and place monsters, traps, and shiny loot to lure the hero where you want them to go. The...
Release Date: 29/03/2022
Platforms: PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Forward: Escape the Fold is a dungeon adventure where you traverse by selecting a path through a grid of cards. Play is making choices about which cards to land on, that either provide health or enemy counters. It stands out for the challenge to balance...
Release Date: 16/09/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
The Amazing American Circus is an adventure strategy card game about travelling across America to turn a run-down circus troupe into an amazing spectacle in an epic quest to become the greatest showman. To play you choose which cities to visit and then...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Inkbound is an online adventure set in the pages of books where your magical ink brings things to life and deals with enemies in battle. You play the game in runs, where you pick a book and hunt down enemies in turn-based combat. It stands out for how...
Release Date: 05/05/2016, updated in 2023
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Grid
Pocket Card Jockey is a horse racing game you participate in by playing a series of Solitaire card games. You race, breed and nurture a stable of horses for a range of owners, trainers and other interesting individuals. It stands out as both a brilliant...
Release Date: 07/10/2019, updated in 2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Pilgrims is an adventure game where you collect cards to help the characters you meet. As you progress you assist them to complete their little stories by offering the right cards to the right people. It's a little like Scribblenauts, but with less...
21 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Griftlands. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Griftlands.
Release Date: 14/09/2004
Platforms: Mac, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
This is an adventure role-playing game set in a fantasy world where your interactions with the world and villagers, and decisions about your use of magical power, substantially alter the story and the environment.
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Signs of the Sojourner is an introspective narrative where you interact with characters by solving puzzles with cards that represent emotions. It's a coming-of-age story set in the near future and explores how relationships form, break and mend in the...
Release Date: 30/07/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Hand-Made and Open World
Thousand Threads is an open world game of consequences. You are free to interact with the world, animals and people however you like, give, take, save, kill, inform, hide, befriend, betray. But how you do this will have ongoing and unavoidable...
Release Date: 13/08/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Dice
Dicey Dungeons is a video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons. Here the novelty is that these cards combine with dice rolls to determine who wins battles.
Release Date: 06/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
The Solitaire Conspiracy takes the well known Solitaire card game and integrates it into a neon drenched cyberpunk spy story to create a fresh take.
Release Date: 18/01/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Rivengard is a strategy battle game where you fight creatures with fantasy superheroes. You upgrade your team to make them as powerful as possible then use them in turn-based encounters requiring tactical prowess. Progress can be sped up by spending...
Release Date: 16/04/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cards
Neurodeck is a psychological adventure game where you use life affirming cards to challenge a series of monsters in a fictional experimental treatment program. Each monster represents a phobia and offers a chance to explore your character's psyche and...
Release Date: 25/04/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, Stadia and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech is a turn-based role-play where you use cards to attack and defend yourself. You play as a team of sentient steam-powered robots travelling across a steampunk fantasy world.
Release Date: 18/08/2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ambition: A Minuet in Power is a text adventure that offers a historical twist on the dating game genre. You play a young woman far from home, abandoned by the love of her life in the city of Paris. Rather than sorrow or shame, this ignites ambition for...
Release Date: 30/09/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Rogue Lords is a role-playing adventure where you are able to change the rules to your advantage. You play the devil who, run after run, manages a team of famous evil geniuses to take on a series of roleplaying events and turn-based combat.
Release Date: 16/06/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night
The Magister is a roleplaying adventure where you play a detective sent to investigate the murder of a fellow Magister. You explore the point-and-click adventure to find clues, follow leads and befriend villagers. But then there's a card game to uncover...
Release Date: 16/09/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Card of Darkness is a hand-animated adventure game where you attack enemies represented on cards. This isn't unusual. What is, however, are the small set of intricate rules and charm of each character.
Release Date: 15/09/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Cartoon and Grid
Foretales is a narrative role-playing adventure where every action, choice, item and character is represented by a card. By choosing cards you not only decide your fate but shape your story. Fight or avoid violence, kindness or play it safe, these...
Release Date: 24/05/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made
Floppy Knights is an adventure where you battle enemies using cards and turn-based strategy. With your robot, Carlton, and a group of virtual knights, you must liberate your town from hostile invaders. It looks like Advance Wars but has a unique blend...
Release Date: 12/11/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Grid
Battlegrounds is a strategic fighting game mode in Hearthstone, where you collect and upgrade cards and pit your deck against 7 other players. Buy and sell the best cards, upgrade their abilities and more as you uncover winning strategies in this highly...
Release Date: 21/05/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Cards
Monster Train is a turn-based fighting game played on a train to hell. Through a series of rounds, you collect cards which summon monsters or special moves to stop enemy armies from getting to and destroying your pyre. Because the pyre is at the top of...
Release Date: 11/06/2021
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Grid
Storybook Brawl is a fighting card game where you choose a unique hero to lead an expanding team of storybook characters in a short 8-player tournaments. Recruit and upgrade a characters from your favourite stories and fairy tales that take advantage of...
Release Date: 12/01/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Grid
Tharsis is a tough strategy-simulation game where you must survive a doomed mission to Mars. You roll dice whose outcome can either help repair the ship or make things worse by injuring crew mates or causing further damage. The dice foreground the...
Release Date: 06/06/2019, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Roguebook is a fighting game where you build a deck of heroes to go on an adventure. It draws on Slay The Spire style battles, but with a world to explore where you discover shops, relics, new cards and power-ups.
Release Date: 15/02/2023
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Tower Escape is a strategy survival game that turns the tower defence format on its head: rather than placing defences for the onrushing enemies, you pick the enemies and guide them to safety. You recruit a team of minions with different abilities and...
Release Date: 13/11/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Cards
Golf Peaks is a golf game you play by picking different shot cards and swiping in a direction. Unlike other golf games it more of a puzzle than a test of skill or timing. You don't even need to understand of golf.
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