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Games like Book of Demons

2018PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable91 % positive22.99 €

A Diablo homage rendered as a paper pop-up book, where you clear dungeons beneath a cathedral using a deck of spell and item cards. You can choose dungeon length before each run, and it has a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.

Cards and deck-building
Runs that play out differently every time
Fantasy setting
Distinctive, stylised art style

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The closest matches for Book of Demons are Hand of Fate, Hand of Fate 2 and Dandy Ace. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Book of Demons special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Book of Demons

Best alternative overall: Hand of Fate 92% match – Cards and deck-building
Without combat: Monster Train 88% match – calmer, no fighting
Newest alternative: Hand of Fate: Hordes 87% match – released 2026

Best match

Hand of Fate

92 %Match

2015PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable89 % positive−80 % ~~19.99 €~~ 3.99 €

A mysterious dealer lays out a tarot-card board-game dungeon, and encounters then erupt into real-time, Arkham-style melee brawls. The blend of luck, choices and combat makes every run tell a different story.

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Hand of Fate 2

Cards and deck-building

A blend of card game and action combat: a mysterious Dealer lays out encounters on a table, and you play through them as a tabletop adventure. Your choices and the luck of the draw shape the real-time brawls that follow.

Dandy Ace

Distinctive, stylised art style

A flamboyant action roguelike where you play a showy magician fighting through procedurally generated mirror worlds, combining magical cards to defeat the Green-Eyed Illusionist.

Lost in Random

Distinctive, stylised art style

A dark fairy tale with a Tim Burton-like look: as Even you travel with your living die Dicey through a kingdom ruled by dice rolls. Combat blends real-time action with a card system, where you roll the die to freeze time and play cards from your hand.

Lost in Random: The Eternal Die

Distinctive, stylised art style

A fast-paced roguelite action adventure set in the gothic, storybook-like realm of Random, where Queen Aleksandra fights alongside her living die Fortune. Dice-driven chance reshapes combat and abilities in every run.

Monster Train

Cards and deck-building

A roguelike deckbuilder where you defend a hellish train across three floors against heavenly armies. Clever clan pairings and powerful synergies make every run feel different.

Hand of Fate: Hordes

Cards and deck-building

A dark fantasy bullet heaven where you survive swarming hordes while shaping your build with cards. It takes the Hand of Fate world into chaotic, auto-attacking survival runs.

Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories

Tactical depth

You play Sora in a card-driven battle system where every card becomes an attack, spell or summon, and clever deck combinations decide the fights. It is a full remake of the Game Boy Advance original, bringing its story of memory and identity to consoles with new enemy cards and extra content.

Heretic's Fork

Cards and deck-building

A roguelike deckbuilder where you play cards to build a hellish tower that keeps the endless hordes of the underworld from escaping. It blends tower-defense planning with card strategy and tongue-in-cheek infernal humor.

Hungry Horrors

Cards and deck-building

In this roguelite deck builder you cook instead of fight, feeding monsters from British and Irish folklore the right dishes before they make a meal of you. It's an original twist that blends card strategy with cooking and myth.