Card City Nights similar games & best alternatives

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Card City Nights

Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2014

Should you play it?

Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.

What works

  • Unique and engaging card mechanics
  • Charming art style and humor
  • Relaxing and catchy soundtrack
  • Good value for price with no microtransactions
  • Encourages creativity and strategic thinking

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Ai difficulty spikes unevenly
  • Some ui and deck management limitations
  • Short overall story length
  • Limited replay value after completion

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Drop Duchy

  • 月圆之夜 (Night of Full Moon)

  • Backpack Hero

  • Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

  • DICEOMANCER

  • UnMetal

More violent

Games that feels like Card City Nights but with more combat and destruction

  • The Braves

  • Soda Girls

  • Menace from the Deep

  • StarVaders

  • Kyvir: Rebirth

  • Nitro Kid

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Card City Nights but with more leadership over others

  • Dream Tactics

  • Union of Gnomes

  • Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1

  • Floppy Knights

  • Wildfrost

  • Endless Voyage / 无尽航线

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Ittle Dew

  • Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble

  • Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

  • MURI

  • Slap City

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Card City Nights. These titles are not in What to play next.

Card City Nights: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026