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2022PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified91 % positive19.50 €

You play a mute assistant to a charming con man in 18th-century France, cheating nobles with card tricks, marked decks and secret signals. Each deception is a tactile, timing-based minigame, wrapped in a stylish story of intrigue.

  • Cards and deck-building
  • Historical setting
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for Card Shark are Shadowhand, Sanatorium: A Mental Asylum Simulator and Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Card Shark special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Shadowhand

80 %Match

2017PCSteam Deck playable82 % positive16.49 €

  • Cards and deck-building
  • Historical setting
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

A card-battling adventure set in late 18th-century England, where you play an aristocrat-turned-highwaywoman, mixing a visual-novel style story with card-based duels.

Sanatorium: A Mental Asylum Simulator

Cards and deck-building

You run a psychiatric asylum in a fictionalized 1920s, testing, diagnosing and treating patients through card-based mechanics. It offers a critical look at the troubled history of psychiatry and pseudoscience.

Cultist Simulator

Distinctive, stylised art style

A dark narrative card game set in a 1920s world of hidden gods, where you build your own cult by juggling time, resources and rituals. Cryptic rules and emergent stories arise from your experiments and failures.

Ironclad Tactics

Distinctive, stylised art style

A fast card-driven tactics game set in an alternate-history American Civil War, where you deploy steam-powered robots and soldiers across lanes. Cards, resource management and positioning decide each battle, with co-op available.

The Killing Stone

Cards and deck-building

A deckbuilding card battler set in 17th-century folk horror, where you cleanse a cursed family's sins by outplaying demons and ultimately the Devil himself in card duels.

We. The Revolution

Distinctive, stylised art style

You play a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris during the French Revolution, weighing evidence, balancing factions and trying to avoid the guillotine yourself. Interrogations, clues and morally heavy verdicts drive a tense, comic-styled courtroom drama.

The Darkest Files

Puzzles and brain teasers

An investigation and courtroom game in which you work cold cases based on real Nazi-era crimes, gathering clues, questioning witnesses and arguing your case in court. Sombre, weighty and rooted in history.

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