Nowhere Prophet similar games & best alternatives

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Nowhere Prophet

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2019

Should you play it?

Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.

What works

  • Deep tactical combat and deckbuilding
  • Immersive post-apocalyptic setting and lore
  • High replayability with many unlocks
  • Well-designed ui and quality-of-life features
  • Active developer support and updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Ai can be inconsistent or make poor decisions
  • Some difficulty spikes and balance issues
  • Long runs may feel tedious to some players
  • Limited social or multiplayer features
  • Some randomness can be frustrating

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Yggdra Union

  • Union of Gnomes: Prologue

  • As We Descend

  • 纸境英雄 Papercraft

  • Ash of Gods: The Way

  • Prime of Flames

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Nowhere Prophet but with less leadership over others

  • StarVaders

  • Breach Wanderers

  • Pirates Outlaws

  • Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

  • Looper Tactics

  • One More Gate : A Wakfu Legend

More relaxing

Games that feels like Nowhere Prophet but with a more relaxing feel

  • Lucky Hunter

  • Floppy Knights

  • Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1

  • Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

  • Epic Battle Fantasy 4

  • Magicbook AutoBattler: Contract

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

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 Nowhere Prophet. These titles are not in What to play next.

Nowhere Prophet: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026