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43 Great Games Like Neurodeck

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Neurodeck is a psychological adventure game where you use life affirming cards to challenge a series of monsters in a fictional experimental treatment program. Each monster represents a phobia and offers a chance to explore your character's psyche and overcome phobias. It's an unusual blend of therapy, play and storytelling that can offer those that choose it an unusual way to engage with their fears.

Unfortunately, Neurodeck is not available on Android, Mac, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Neurodeck

Game Details

Release Date: 16/04/2020

Out Now: PC and Switch

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Battle, Sequencing, Strategy (Communication, Narrative and Role-Play)

Accessibility: 28 features

Components: 2D Side-On and Cards

Developer: Tavrox Games (@TavroxGames)

Costs: Purchase cost

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Release Date: 27/02/2020, updated in 2023

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Cartoon

Iris and the Giant is a narrative strategy card game about a young girl named Iris who braves an imaginary world to tackle her inner demons and face her fears. It's a game about depression and anxiety where Iris uses escapism to cope with her life. More...

Foretales

Release Date: 15/09/2022, updated in 2022

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Cartoon and Grid

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Black Book

Release Date: 10/08/2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made

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Storybook Brawl

Release Date: 11/06/2021

Out Now: PC

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Grid

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Town of Salem

Release Date: 15/12/2014, updated in 2018

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Web and iOS

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Town of Salem is a social deduction strategy game where you work with (or against) other players trying to save a village from zany villains and murderers. Like Among Us, no one knows anyone else's role; everyone must carefully...

Griftlands

Release Date: 14/06/2020, updated in 2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made

Griftlands is an adventure game where you use cards to fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world. You will die or fail often, but then use your knowledge and growing deck of cards to have a better chance of survival on your next...

20 Similar Games Long List

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Night in the Woods

Release Date: 10/01/2017, updated in 2017

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Night in the Woods is a narrative adventure which follows college dropout Mae Borowski returning home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs. But the place is different now her friends have grown and changed. There’s something...

Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange (Series)

Release Date: 19/01/2016

Out Now: Android, PC, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Life Is Strange is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at a high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm. Along with this prophetic vision, you discover...

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a dark fantasy adventure, drawing on Norse and Celtic mythology, where you play a young female Pict warrior, Senua. You explore and fight your way to Helheim to rescue the soul of her dead lover. As you play, though, you...

If Found

Release Date: 19/05/2020

Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

If Found is an interactive narrative game about searching for connection. You touch the screen to rub out and erase text and drawings. Set on December 31^st 1993 in the crumbling ruins of a mansion on Achill Island, you play Kasio as she destroys her diary.

The White Door

Release Date: 09/01/2020

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black-and-white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.

Adventures With Anxiety

Release Date: 10/12/2019

Out Now: Web

Components: 2D Side-On and Text

Adventures With Anxiety is a mini-adventure where you play, as a red dog who is the inner protective voice of a young person. Your role is to guard them against danger, although as you do you cause them anxiety in different ways.

Sea of Solitude

Release Date: 05/07/2019

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

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Fractured Minds

Release Date: 14/11/2019

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person

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She Dreams Elsewhere

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Signs of the Sojourner

Release Date: 14/05/2020

Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made

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Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid

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Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

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Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

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8 Easier Skill Rating than Neurodeck

If you like the sound of Neurodeck but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.

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Night in the Woods

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15 Video Games With a Similar Theme to Neurodeck

Here are a selection of games with a similar theme to Neurodeck:

Night in the Woods

Life Is Strange

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

If Found

The White Door

Adventures With Anxiety

Desta: The Memories Between

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage

Revenant Hill

3 Board Game Alternatives to Neurodeck

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Sheriff of Nottingham

Pandemic

Dominion

16 Video Games Like Neurodeck Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Neurodeck. This includes games from the Role-Play, Strategy, Sequencing, Communication, Narrative and Battle genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

Slay the Spire

Hearthstone: Battlegrounds

Luckitown

Advance Wars

Marvel's Midnight Suns

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes

1 Bit Survivor

Valkyria Chronicles 4

Inkbound

Dicey Dungeons

Fire Emblem Engage

6 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Neurodeck

If you like the sound of Neurodeck but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Neurodeck Accessibility Report.

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Iris and the Giant

She Dreams Elsewhere

Signs of the Sojourner

Griftlands

Desta: The Memories Between

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43 Great Games Like Neurodeck

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6 Similar Games Short List

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7 Younger Content Rating than Neurodeck

8 Easier Skill Rating than Neurodeck

15 Video Games With a Similar Theme to Neurodeck

3 Board Game Alternatives to Neurodeck

16 Video Games Like Neurodeck Based on Genre

6 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Neurodeck

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