What is the best game similar to Subverse?

The closest game to Subverse is Shadowhand: RPG Card Game, scoring 86/100 on our similarity scale. They share 11 gameplay attributes, including deep RPG systems, visual novel storytelling and turn-based strategy. It's the most faithful alternative currently available.

What are the top games like Subverse?

The three closest games to Subverse are: 1. Shadowhand: RPG Card Game (86/100, 11 shared attributes) 2. Caves of Qud (77/100, 11 shared attributes) 3. Shadows Over Loathing (76/100, 9 shared attributes). All share Subverse's most important gameplay attributes, ranked out of 36 candidates across 17 dimensions.

Is Caves of Qud similar to Subverse?

Yes, very much so — Caves of Qud scores 77/100 similarity to Subverse. They share 11 attributes, including deep RPG systems and turn-based strategy. It's one of the most direct alternatives available.

What RPG games are similar to Subverse?

The best RPG games similar to Subverse are Shadowhand: RPG Card Game, Caves of Qud, Shadows Over Loathing and Tactical Breach Wizards. All share the RPG genre alongside other key Subverse attributes like deep RPG systems, visual novel storytelling and turn-based strategy.

How is similarity to Subverse calculated?

We compare Subverse against every game in our catalog using 17 gameplay attributes: genre, atmosphere, world structure, play modes, combat style, and more. Each category is weighted differently — genre matters more than visual style, for instance. The result is a 0-100 score reflecting how closely a game replicates the Subverse experience, not just whether it shares the same genre label.

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Ranking compiled by Lluis Enric Mayans, Founder & Head of ContentUpdated May 19, 2026How this is calculatedOrdered by an attribute-similarity model, not editorial opinion.

If Subverse left you wanting more, this list of 36 similar games is for you. Each one shares part of its essence — deep RPG systems, vibe casual and combat tactical — and is ranked by a similarity score computed across 17 attributes. Shadowhand: RPG Card Game comes closest (86/100).

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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Subverse. Each one has been evaluated across 17 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1Shadowhand: RPG Card GameClosest overall match

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeCasualSkill TreeLoot

Steam👍 82%· 825IGDB65· 2

Dev Grey Alien Games · Positech GamesPlaytime ~4hOn PC · Apple Macintosh

✓ Same family of turn-based CRPGs: deep RPG systems, visual novel storytelling and turn-based strategy

≠ Where it differs: brings card game strategy, vibe relaxing and historical setting, while skipping punishing difficulty

RIDE WITH SHADOWHANDShadowhand is a strategic RPG card game. Duel powerful enemies with unique solitaire-style turn-based combat. Build mini-decks and equip your character strategically to sneak, slice and blast through foes!

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: setting and visuals.

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeHardcoreSci-FiExplorationSkill TreeIsometric

Steam👍 95%· 12KRAWG👍 83%· 46IGDB94· 1OC90· 11

Year 2015Dev Freehold Games · Kitfox GamesPlaytime ~2hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, roguelike runs and survival mechanics, while skipping puzzle design

Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth?Who are you?

It predates Subverse by 9 years, with what that implies technically.

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#3Shadows Over Loathing

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeSkill TreeExploration

Steam👍 96%· 3.3KOC81· 10

Year 2022Dev AsymmetricPlaytime ~5hOn PC · Apple Macintosh

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and puzzle design

≠ Its own twist: open world exploration and visual 2d, while skipping visual novel storytelling

Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: visuals.

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#4Tactical Breach Wizards

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeSci-FiIsometric

Steam👍 98%· 12KIGDB84· 3OC87· 21

Dev Suspicious DevelopmentsPlaytime ~6hOn PC

✓ Same family of turn-based CRPGs: deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and puzzle design

≠ Stands apart with fantasy world and historical setting, while skipping visual novel storytelling

Tactical Breach Wizards is a small-scale, turn-based tactics game where you play a team of wizards in modern-day tactical gear, breaching and clearing rooms full of terrorists, drug dealers, corrupt cops, and worse. It's still in early development, so everything about it might change!

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: setting.

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeCasualExplorationSkill Tree

Steam👍 94%· 6.0KIGDB90· 1OC89· 22

Year 2025Dev YCJY GamesPlaytime ~4hOn PC

✓ Same family of turn-based CRPGs: deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and turn-based strategy

≠ Stands apart with deep simulation, roguelike runs and open world exploration, while skipping puzzle design

It’s the early 2000’s, and you’ve just bought your first car. A long, slow summer lies ahead. Hearing about a festival on the other side of the country, you fire up your engine, plot a course on your map, and hit the road. How, if you get there at all, is up to you.

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: visuals.

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeHardcoreExplorationLoot

Steam👍 92%· 159KRAWG👍 86%· 1.4KMC84IGDB83· 10OC84· 80

Year 2016Dev Red Hook StudiosPlaytime ~8hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of turn-based CRPGs: deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: roguelike runs, horror tension and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping puzzle design

Darkest Dungeon is a roguelike RPG developed by Red Hook Studios. The works of Howard Lovecraft served as the main inspiration for the game which addresses the themes of fear and psychological trauma.

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: setting and visuals.

It predates Subverse by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalSci-FiIsometricProcedural

Steam👍 94%· 22KIGDB90· 10OC88· 73

Year 2018Dev Subset GamesOn Linux · Android · PC

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and puzzle design

≠ Where it differs: brings deep simulation, roguelike runs and procedural generation, while skipping visual novel storytelling

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: visuals.

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#8Invisible, Inc.Closest on tone

iRank82

GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalHardcoreNarrativeSci-FiIsometric

Steam👍 91%· 5.7KRAWG👍 65%· 346MC82IGDB86· 10OC83· 43

Year 2015Dev Klei EntertainmentPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS · iOS

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: roguelike runs, deep simulation and procedural generation, while skipping puzzle design

Developed by the Canadian Klei Entertainment, Invisible Inc. is a turn-based strategy with elements of stealth and roguelike. The game takes place in a dystopian future: in 2074 and the huge multinational corporations seized power from the world government. Invisible Inc.

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: setting.

It predates Subverse by 9 years, with what that implies technically.

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#9Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeSkill TreeExplorationIsometric

Steam👍 88%· 20KIGDB85· 14OC89· 88

Year 2018Dev Obsidian Entertainment · Versus EvilOn PS4 · Linux · PC

✓ Same family of turn-based CRPGs: deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and turn-based strategy

≠ Stands apart with open world exploration and fantasy world, while skipping puzzle design

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: setting and tone.

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#10Derelict StarClosest on setting

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeSci-FiSpaceExplorationLoot

Steam👍 74%· 2.9KRAWG👍 44%· 62

Year 2018Dev Snowhound Games · 1C CompanyPlaytime ~3hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and turn-based strategy

≠ Where it differs: brings card game strategy, roguelike runs and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping puzzle design

In a grim dystopian future, where mankind has scattered across the galaxy and the human society has split into two distinct classes, you are a poor stateless outcast forced to live off scraps from derelict alien stations and ships in the outer space, yet you dream of becoming a privileged citizen…

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: visuals and tone.

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#11Paper Mario: The Origami King

iRank79

GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalExplorationOpen WorldFantasy

IGDB81· 11OC78· 137

Year 2020Dev Intelligent Systems · NintendoOn Switch

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, puzzle design and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings open world exploration, fantasy world and visual third person, while skipping visual novel storytelling

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: setting and visuals.

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#12Gorky 17

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalSci-FiIsometricDark

Steam👍 81%· 2.2KRAWG👍 61%· 188IGDB80· 1

Year 1999Dev Hyperion Entertainment · Topware Interactive ACEPlaytime ~4hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, puzzle design and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings dark, oppressive atmosphere, horror setting and visual third person, while skipping visual novel storytelling

Gorky 17 is a role-playing game set in a fictional polish town of Gorky 17. The town was attacked by mutants and destroyed. Several years after these events a NATO group disappeared near Gorky 17. You take control of the second team sent to find missing allies.

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: tone and setting.

It predates Subverse by 25 years, with what that implies technically.

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeSci-FiIsometric

IGDB85· 4OC81· 25

Year 1997Dev Square Product Development Division 1 · Square EnixOn PlayStation 3

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and turn-based strategy

≠ Stands apart with fantasy world, setting cyberpunk and visual third person, while skipping puzzle design

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: tone and setting.

It predates Subverse by 27 years, with what that implies technically.

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#14Torment: Tides of Numenera

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalNarrativeSci-FiIsometric

Steam👍 70%· 4.4KIGDB82· 22OC80· 110

Year 2017Dev inXile Entertainment · TechlandOn PS4 · Linux · PC

✓ Both are turn-based CRPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and turn-based strategy

≠ Its own twist: fantasy world, while skipping puzzle design

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: tone.

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#15RimWorld

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GenreRPGSubgenreCRPGSub-subgenreTurn-Based CRPG

SoloTacticalSci-FiSpaceExplorationIsometric

Steam👍 98%· 239KRAWG👍 87%· 620MC87IGDB75· 2OC86· 11

Year 2016Dev Ludeon StudiosPlaytime ~19hOn PC · Apple Macintosh · Linux

✓ Fits the turn-based CRPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and combat tactical

≠ Stands apart with deep simulation, survival mechanics and real-time strategy, while skipping puzzle design

RimWorld is a sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress, Firefly, and Dune. You begin with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant world. Manage colonists' moods, needs, wounds, and illnesses.

Where it drifts furthest from Subverse: progression.

It predates Subverse by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

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The full catalog of games sharing gameplay DNA with Subverse, ordered from highest to lowest similarity score. Use the filters above to narrow down by genre, setting or game mode and find the alternative that best fits your playstyle.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker

RPG · Adventure

Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense

RPG · Tower Defense

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)

RPG · Tower Defense

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

RPG · Adventure

Super Mario RPG

RPG · Adventure

Fire Emblem Engage

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

RPG · Adventure

Bravely Default

RPG · Adventure

Xenogears

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Willy-Nilly Knight

RPG · Adventure

Chroma Squad

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Fate/Grand Order

RPG · Visual Novel

Shogun Showdown

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Grotesque Tactics 2 – Dungeons and Donuts

RPG · Adventure

Jagged Alliance: Crossfire

RPG · Simulation

The Banner Saga 3

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Gears Tactics

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

RPG · Turn-Based Strat

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best game similar to Subverse?: The closest game to Subverse is Shadowhand: RPG Card Game, scoring 86/100 on our similarity scale. They share 11 gameplay attributes, including deep RPG systems, visual novel storytelling and turn-based strategy. It's the most faithful alternative currently available.
What are the top games like Subverse?: The three closest games to Subverse are: 1. Shadowhand: RPG Card Game (86/100, 11 shared attributes) 2. Caves of Qud (77/100, 11 shared attributes) 3. Shadows Over Loathing (76/100, 9 shared attributes). All share Subverse's most important gameplay attributes, ranked out of 36 candidates across 17 dimensions.
Is Caves of Qud similar to Subverse?: Yes, very much so — Caves of Qud scores 77/100 similarity to Subverse. They share 11 attributes, including deep RPG systems and turn-based strategy. It's one of the most direct alternatives available.
What RPG games are similar to Subverse?: The best RPG games similar to Subverse are Shadowhand: RPG Card Game, Caves of Qud, Shadows Over Loathing and Tactical Breach Wizards. All share the RPG genre alongside other key Subverse attributes like deep RPG systems, visual novel storytelling and turn-based strategy.
How is similarity to Subverse calculated?: We compare Subverse against every game in our catalog using 17 gameplay attributes: genre, atmosphere, world structure, play modes, combat style, and more. Each category is weighted differently — genre matters more than visual style, for instance. The result is a 0-100 score reflecting how closely a game replicates the Subverse experience, not just whether it shares the same genre label.