Pokémon Trading Card Game Live similar games & best alternatives

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Pokémon Trading Card Game Live

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2022

Should you play it?

What works

  • Free-to-play with no microtransactions
  • Accessible and strategic gameplay
  • Cross-platform progression
  • Generous battle pass rewards
  • Beginner-friendly tutorials and starter decks

Things to keep in mind

  • Technical glitches and crashes
  • Grindy progression for rare cards
  • Lack of social features and trading
  • Repetitive music and modest visuals
  • Limited single-player content

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • 东方幻灵录 ~ Touhou Hakanai Cards

  • Hobs

  • Heart of Crown PC

  • Zoominoes

  • Eternal Card Game

  • Mahjong Soul

More story-driven

Games that feels like Pokémon Trading Card Game Live but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Shadowverse CCG

  • GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

  • HEART of CROWN Online

  • The Bazaar

  • Once Upon a Galaxy

  • Apokerlypse

More violent

Games that feels like Pokémon Trading Card Game Live but with more combat and destruction

  • Hero Realms

  • Star Realms

  • Monster Train

  • Yao-Guai Hunter

  • Spellweaver

  • Card-en-Ciel

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Pokémon Trading Card Game Live. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

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).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • 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 Pokémon Trading Card Game Live. These titles are not in What to play next.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Live: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026