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2022PEGI 12PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified90 % 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 soundtrack

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In short: Games like Card Shark

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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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

79 %Match

2022PEGI 12PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified96 % positive24.50 €

Brings what grabs you about Card Shark: cards and deck-building, a strong story as well as a strong soundtrack.

You grow up on an alien colony world, shaping skills, friendships and romances over ten years through a card-based system. Nearly every decision reshapes your story and the colony's future.

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Shadowhand

Cards and deck-building

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.

Venba

Strong soundtrack

Venba tells the moving story of an Indian mother emigrating to Canada in the 1980s. Recipe-restoring cooking puzzles are woven into a warm family narrative about home, love and loss.

Elsinore

Puzzles and brain teasers

Play as Ophelia in a time loop through Shakespeare's Hamlet, reliving the days at Elsinore castle to stop the tragedy. You gather information, manipulate characters and see how your choices reshape the unfolding story.

Cultist Simulator

Cards and deck-building

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.

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.

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