Roguebook similar games & best alternatives

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Roguebook

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2021

Should you play it?

Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!

What works

  • Innovative map exploration mechanic
  • Deep deckbuilding with gem customization
  • Two-hero synergy and positioning system
  • Strong meta progression and replayability
  • Beautiful art and immersive fantasy setting

Things to keep in mind

  • Long run times and slow animations
  • Some bugs and occasional crashes reported
  • Limited content variety and few heroes
  • High rng impact can frustrate players
  • Minimal social or multiplayer features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Card-en-Ciel

  • Swords and Sandals Immortals

  • Turnbound

  • Machick 2

  • StarVaders

  • Book of Demons

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Roguebook but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Looper Tactics

  • Kyvir: Rebirth

  • Overdungeon

  • Menace from the Deep

  • DungeonTop

  • None Shall Intrude: Descent

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Roguebook but with more leadership over others

  • Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

  • Gordian Quest

  • Nowhere Prophet

  • Magicbook AutoBattler: Contract

  • Prime of Flames

  • Oaken

Less competitive

Games that feels like Roguebook but with less competition against others

  • Union of Gnomes: Prologue

  • 天外武林 (Traveler of Wuxia)

  • Breach Wanderers

  • SpellRogue

  • Hadean Tactics

  • The Braves

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Roguebook. 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.
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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 Roguebook. These titles are not in What to play next.

Roguebook: 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 Status, Competition, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026