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2022PC90 % positive11.99 €

You design the ultimate villain lair by cleverly placing rooms on a grid to score points for your evil boss. Along the way you sabotage rivals and puzzle out ever better layouts.

Runs that play out differently every time
Tactical depth
Puzzles and brain teasers
Lots of humour

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The closest matches for Chambers of Devious Design are Nubby's Number Factory, Ballionaire and Concrete Jungle. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Chambers of Devious Design special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Nubby's Number Factory 90% match – Runs that play out differently every time
Newest alternative: Combolands 86% match – released 2026

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Nubby's Number Factory

90 %Match

2025PCSteam Deck playable98 % positive4.99 €

A humorous plinko-style roguelike where you drop Nubby down a pegboard to hit number quotas, stacking quirky upgrades for ever higher scores, or the sun explodes.

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Ballionaire

Lots of humour

A pachinko-style roguelike where you reshape the board with pegs, bumpers and relics and chain absurd synergies while the balls drop on their own. The appeal lies in theorycrafting ever more powerful builds.

Concrete Jungle

Runs that play out differently every time

A city-building puzzle where you place buildings and parks from drawn cards on a grid, optimizing point combos. Clever planning replaces micromanagement.

Lootplot

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You arrange items on a grid, discover wild synergies, and build combos that break the game wide open. Each run is a crunchy roguelite puzzle about chasing points with clever item effects.

Big Pharma

Lots of humour

A factory-optimization business sim where you design production lines for drugs, tune ingredients and layouts, and balance efficacy, side effects and profit. A wry, distinctive art style accompanies the satisfying puzzle-like tinkering.

Shotgun King: the Final Checkmate

Runs that play out differently every time

A chess roguelike where you play a lone king armed with a shotgun against a full enemy army. Upgrades between rounds and careful positioning turn each match into a clever tactical puzzle.

Isle of Arrows

Runs that play out differently every time

A roguelike tower defense with a board game feel: you place tiles, buildings and roads to grow your island into a fortress against waves of invaders. Each run rewards clever placement and planning.

Combolands

Runs that play out differently every time

A compact city-building roguelike where you place buildings cleverly and chain combos to grow a tiny metropolis in short runs.

Sticker/Ball

Lots of humour

A chaotic pool-meets-roguelike where you fire balls, hit dice and stack stickers to build absurd combos. Every run is an experiment in how far you can push your scoring chaos.

Merge Maestro

Runs that play out differently every time

In this roguelike merge builder you fuse hundreds of emoji-style tokens into ever new combinations. Each run rewards creative strategies as the challenges steadily grow tougher.

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