Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies(2023)
Games like Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies
Looking for games like Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies? It puts everyone on the same side, sweating one shared problem that fights back — built on pulling together against a game that fights back and building an engine card by card as the game unfolds. This page rounds up 12 of the closest alternatives, scored on mechanical overlap with the original (45%), complexity match (35%), and player-count fit (20%), then weighted by BoardGameGeek community ratings so every pick is one players genuinely rate. The strongest matches come first; the further down you go, the more a game trades exact overlap for a fresh take on the same core appeal.
12 recommendations · scored by ISO
Sleeping Gods(2021)
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Slay the Spire: The Board Game(2024)
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Zerywia(2021)
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Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape(2022)
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Ruins: Death Binder(2021)
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Divinity Original Sin: The Board Game(2023)
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Trudvang Legends(2022)
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases(1981)
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The 7th Citadel(2024)
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Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game(2018)
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Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread(2025)
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