Games like Cards of the Dead
by Boomfire Games
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors and Terminus: Zombie Survivors play most like Cards of the Dead. Of the 16 closest games below, most share its survival, zombies and pixel graphics; 1 came out in the last year, 8 are free or under $10 and 2 have co-op. The best known is Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors, with 18,691 Steam reviews.
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Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
Apr 21 · poncle, Nosebleed Interactive
Both: Card Battler · Card Game · Pixel Graphics
From the creators of Vampire Survivors comes a turbo-charged, turn-based roguelite deckbuilder! Deal world-ending combos, blitz through infested dungeons, and master the Turboturn to obliterate hordes of familiar foes with a chaotic hand of cards.
Card BattlerDungeon CrawlerDeckbuildingStrategyRoguelikeCard GamePixel GraphicsActionSingleplayerFirst-Person👍 18,691Terminus: Zombie Survivors
Aug 19, 2024 · Longplay Studios
Both: Survival · Zombies · Pixel Graphics
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
SurvivalZombiesRoguelikeOpen World Survival CraftTurn-Based StrategyOpen WorldSandboxRPGPixel GraphicsExploration👍 4,343Infectonator: Survivors
Aug 8, 2016 · Toge Productions
Both: Zombies · Survival · Pixel Graphics
"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.
ZombiesStrategySurvivalIndiePixel GraphicsSimulationTower DefenseRPGActionAdventure👍 1,000Dead Age
Nov 4, 2016 · Silent Dreams
Both: Zombies · Survival
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!
RPGZombiesStrategyTurn-Based CombatSurvivalAdventureSimulationCasualActionIndie👍 4,408Zombie Night Terror
Jul 20, 2016 · NoClip
Both: Zombies · Pixel Graphics
Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.
ZombiesStrategyPixel GraphicsIndiePuzzleActionLemmingsHorror2DGore👍 3,351Necropolis Nights
Sep 9, 2025 · DevDelta
Both: Card Game · Survival · Zombies
"Necropolis Nights" is a survival card game where you gather resources, craft, farm, and hunt by day, then fend off zombies at night. Strategize to survive and thrive in a world overrun by the undead.
Card GameSurvivalZombiesStrategyTime ManagementAdventureCasualBoard GameCraftingChoices MatterZED ZONE
Mar 29, 2023 · Leven Liu
Both: Survival · Zombies · Pixel Graphics
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Early AccessSurvivalZombiesOpen WorldPost-apocalypticSandboxPixel GraphicsBuildingCraftingTop-Down👍 3,523Atomic Cards
Oct 28, 2021 · SerVG
Both: Survival · Card Battler · Pixel Graphics
Collect food, weapons and materials, face enemies and make difficult moral choices that will affect the gameplay.
SurvivalCard BattlerCraftingPost-apocalypticPixel GraphicsChoices MatterCard GameTurn-Based StrategyText-BasedStrategy RPGThe Final Station
Aug 30, 2016 · DO MY BEST
Both: Pixel Graphics · Survival · Zombies
Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.
Pixel GraphicsPost-apocalypticSurvivalIndie2DAdventureZombiesActionTrainsAtmospheric👍 6,755Deadly Days
Sep 19, 2019 · Pixelsplit
Both: Zombies · Pixel Graphics · Survival
Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.
IndieActionRogueliteAction RoguelikeCasualZombiesStrategyPixel GraphicsSurvivalPost-apocalyptic👍 1,391Wanna Survive
Aug 13, 2019 · PINIX
Both: Zombies · Survival · Pixel Graphics
HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.
TacticalTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsZombiesDifficultPuzzleSurvivalStrategyTurn-BasedPixel Graphics👍 270Death Road to Canada
Jul 21, 2016 · Rocketcat Games, Madgarden
Both: Zombies · Pixel Graphics · Survival
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
ZombiesPixel GraphicsAction RoguelikeLocal Co-OpSurvivalActionRoguelikeCharacter CustomizationIndieComedy👍 9,131Chainsaw Warrior (Classic)
Oct 7, 2013 · Auroch Digital
Both: Card Game · Zombies · Survival
Chainsaw Warrior from Games Workshop is the classic game for one strong-nerved player! It's 2032 and spatial warping has opened a hole into another dimension in the midst of the old municipal buildings at the heart of Manhattan. Bizarre and dangerous creatures are flooding into our dimension.
StrategyCard GameBoard GameZombiesSurvivalDifficultHorrorIndieAdventureRPG👍 229Dead Pixels
Dec 7, 2012 · CSR-Studios
Both: Zombies · Pixel Graphics · Survival
A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.
ZombiesActionPixel GraphicsIndieLocal Co-Op2DRetroSurvivalCo-opRPG👍 1,988FatalZone
Sep 17, 2024 · Midhard Games
Both: Zombies · Survival
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
Action RoguelikeBullet HellZombiesSurvivalRogueliteTop-Down ShooterArena ShooterActionAction RPGTop-Down👍 2,126Dead Horde
Jul 27, 2011 · DnS Development
Both: Zombies · Survival
As a survivor of the mutant virus, make your way through the city and wipe out the hordes of flesh eating mutants. Teamwork is the key to survive the DEAD HORDE...
ZombiesActionIndieSurvivalMultiplayerSingleplayerTop-Down ShooterHorror👍 434
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Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
Vampire Survivors
Oct 20, 2022 · poncle
Both: Pixel Graphics
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Action RoguelikeBullet HellVampiresRoguelitePixel Graphics2DIndieSingleplayerCasualRoguelike👍 251,906Plague Inc: Evolved
Feb 18, 2016 · Ndemic Creations
Both: Zombies
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
StrategySimulationOutbreak SimIndieSingleplayerMultiplayerZombiesCasualTacticalReplay Value👍 59,300
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