Is Nerdook the dev?

Yeah always was happy if there was a new Nerdook game on kongregate because it mostly meant:
Fun ahead! (Especially looved the game ClueSweeper)

I confirm Monster Slayers is a very good roguelike deck-builder. With the DLC you get as many as fourteen classes to play with, easily making for 50+ hours of content if you want to beat the game with every class. And that does not even take into account Legendary Mode. (you have to put up with a bit of grinding in the first 10ish hours though)

Sorry to pop in here too, reading everybody elses recommendations :) Yeah, combat was the one thing that put me off Hand of Fate too, but I liked the card randomness enough to stick at it.

thank you for the chance!

Well, there you go. I'm glad someone shares my opinion.

Eternal is slightly more complex than Hearthstone and arguably a little more like magic the gathering, but it still has the pretty interface and good looking effects. The biggest difference I'd say is that there are mana (power) cards instead of the automatic mana system in hearthstone and secondly, there is the option to play Fast Spells in the opponents turn or just before units deal damage in combat.

In Hearthstone I mainly played Arena gamemode where you make a different deck each time, I love in Eternal you have a another extra option to play a Draft mode where you get much more choices than pick-out-of-3-cards every time.

You definitely need a bit of sci-fi love to appreciate FTL, also you need to get over its rather dry and nerdish presentation in the beginning (which I've learned to love however). But personally as soon as I've started playing it totally hooked me. It's a difficult game to master but with some experience it's also not that hard to reach later sectors and finally get a win. I just love the atmosphere and the mixture of chill and suspense.
Never really got into Isaac personally, somehow it does not work for me...

Magic is just is the most complex game I've ever met. Unlimited number of choices and details. And I love deckbuilding. Unfortunately it's much more expensive today as it was during my youth.
BEHIND! follows similar footsteps as Magic but adds a tabletop component and this mashup is awesome. You can build decks, have a bit of roleplaying, tactical play on a map and can think about own scenarios. Too bad the game got abandoned after second edition.
Bang! (also available as dice game) is a luck based hidden role game for groups in a wild west setting. Rounds are quick, unfair and super fun (at least in our group), but because of its short nature nobody cares if he/she loses, just play another round. Good in combination with some drinks and a stetson.
Ligretto is a classic speedgame, everbody plays at the same time and your goal is to get rid of your cards as the fastest. Some people love it, others hate it. We love it, lots of laughter.
And Stormbound is a f2p app and offers a combination of deckbuilding and map with a ranking system. Nice aesthetics for me, I like it, huge grindfest though.

It's closer to the older (original rogue-likes) and it has so many classes that I always go back fro a run when I am away from home and can't run a heavier game.

If you want to min-max character maybe, but if you want to play for fun you put it in easy difficulty, or even use one of the mods with pre-made races and experiment.
You don'y need to know everything from the start, you learn it in time.
But you need to be prepared for some reading.

Oh yeah, that's definitely an issue with roguelikes, lots of them are designed to be punishingly hard. I don't consider myself an amazing gamer, but I'm quite lucky that when I practice all the time I improve. Like when I first played Rogue Legacy it was a disaster, but I get pretty into Roguelikes, so playing it again and again I improved. I couldn't do the final boss though, only reached it once and didn't want to risk dying, so I let my husband take it on (think it was on my playstation copy). Felt a bit disappointing, but I really wanted to see the end and I knew I'd bottle it from the stress alone!

I'm quite an odd bird as I like random chance (something most people hate), so I was heavy into some indie games that aren't universally loved. Like Coin crypt, Crowntakers, this one odd cheap looking game called 7 grand steps, there's just something addictive about it.

Darkest Dungeon is good, though like most roguelikes can be hard to get a handle on at first. (If you get stressed, looking up guides can help demystify it, though there is something fun about trying to discover on your own too). Renowned Explorers is addicting, but punishing to those who don't like to min/max if you want to get a lot of the end stuff and extra content. Runestone Keeper. Pretty much everything on my Steam profile with a lot sunk into is my roguelikes and the Team Fortress 2 (which hubby played a crapton as a teen and young man).

I do wish roguelikes would have more gentle options sometimes as I like to see the end and complete it, but often get burnt out before I get there. Still love them though.

For the King is a 1-3 player turned based rpg, so the co op is a big thing that makes me interested, The rouge like elements comes from collecting lore books from finishing quests and beating bosses, which grants you access to new classes, weapons, cosmetics, and shops. All content unlocked by 1 player is unlocked by all except for classes. But yeah, the RPG elements and questing are what really sold it to me. I also play a bit of Streets of Rouge, Magicite, and Rougelands which all also have multiplayer and rpg elements, just they require less thought and less detailed quests.

Thanks for the WL. HS is RNG and Eternal is very similar to MTG and more skill based. 75 cards in a deck, 3 legendary copies allowed for 1 card instead of 1 in HS, and you can actually be FTP. Sets are released and they have small expansions that you can buy with real money or in game currency called gems.

Onirim is you vs. the deck. Both the physical and digital versions are single-player only. You''re playing to find certain cards in the deck. It won't blow your socks off, but it's a neat little diversion.

Pathfinder Adventures is more complex. You play a group of heroes going through a variety of quests, all of which involve exploring locations (different decks, basically) to defeat a particular villain/monster. It's pretty good, but a bit heavy on dice-rolling and grinding.

I highly recommend giving Enter the Gungeon a try. Similarly to Isaac it has hundreds of items and crazy synergies.
But Gremlins Inc. - definitely not for everyone. It's not very intuitive and it has many random elements which make the game seem... well, random. And it's not the friendliest game, that's for sure - you basically mess with other players all the time, steal their points, give them nasty misfortunes. So yeah, not an easy recommendation.

And I guess you want a few examples of card games from my collection? Ok, you asked for it...

Sushi Go! - one of my most played card games. It's a simple, but great drafing game in a tin. I take it with me on every vacation and gaming event. Also - it has the cutest artwork ever (unless you have the unfortunate German version).
Race for the Galaxy - for a game with only cards it's pretty complex. It's known for its confusing iconography. You build your little card engine galactic empire to gain points space dominance.
Android: Netrunner - great asymmetrical card game for 2 players. It's definitely the heaviest among these and because of that, I never played it with anyone other than my sister (my best 1v1 partner).
Hero Realms - it's a younger brother of more known Star Realms. Great deck builder for 2 (or more) players with fantasy setting.
Pixel Tactics - small box, 2 decks with identical 25 cards, nothing else. How hard can it be? My god, this one is brain-melting for me. It doesn't have simple rules, but you can use every single card in 5 different ways.
Not alone - it's like Predator... in a card game. One player plays "the alien" while everyone else is trying to survive on a strange planet. Like other games, it's basically just cards... but somehow it feels tense during the whole game.

I enjoyed playing a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh games, especially those with story campaigns. (mostly found on NDS,PSP,PSX). As for the current 'popular' Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, I don't like it. It's way too simplified compared to how the original Yu-Gi-Oh plays, and suffers a lot from microtransactions. So I never bothered with it.

As for Gwent, it's great. I am playing it and will continue to play it for quite a while.
Unlike most other f2p games, there is absolutely no need to spend any money because just by doing the daily quests you will have more than you need, the whole game system is pretty generous, and there are also often great events. They will soon (October 23rd) do a major overhaul to the game and also release Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales - Singleplayer story campaign.
And honestly I am mostly looking forward to playing Thronebreaker since I like The Witcher world, books and games. ^^