NERTS! Online similar games & best alternatives

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NERTS! Online

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2021

Should you play it?

NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!

What works

  • Free to play
  • Fast-paced and addictive gameplay
  • Smooth multiplayer with public lobbies
  • High skill ceiling and strategic depth
  • Strong social and community engagement

Things to keep in mind

  • Stressful and can cause frustration
  • Limited solo play enjoyment
  • Long unskippable intro music
  • Some lag and occasional bugs
  • Lack of in-game chat or communication tools

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Poker Championship

  • Timberman VS

  • Leap up no Justu: Double

  • Simply Chess

  • Ragdoll Runners

  • Just Xiangqi

More violent

Games that feels like NERTS! Online but with more combat and destruction

  • Impact Point

  • Madrun

  • Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

  • Iron Fisticle

  • Party Jousting

  • Bomb Bots Arena

Less competitive

Games that feels like NERTS! Online but with less competition against others

  • Bloody Walls

  • Border Pioneer

  • TANKS

  • The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection

  • Aotenjo: Infinite Hands

  • Balatro

More fantastical

Games that feels like NERTS! Online but with more imaginative fiction

  • 东方幻灵录 ~ Touhou Hakanai Cards

  • 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel

  • Oaken Tower

  • Chess Evolved Online

  • 8Bit Fiesta - The Drinking Game

  • Circle of Sumo: Online Rumble!

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • SpaceChem

  • SHENZHEN I/O

  • TIS-100

  • The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection

  • MOLEK-SYNTEZ

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

NERTS! Online: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Violence, Exploration.

Last update: 03/08/2026