Games Like Battle Brothers

Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

Why similar: Open World 28.7%, Medieval 27.8%, RPG 16.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the clearest modern counterpart to Battle Brothers, built around roaming a harsh medieval world, taking contracts, managing a mercenary band, and surviving punishing turn-based battles.

A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.

Why similar: Medieval 13.7%, Horses 13.5% ★, War 13.3%, Moddable 10.5% ★, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same start-small-and-build-a-warband sandbox loop with recruitment, wages, gear, faction wars, and emergent campaign stories, just with real-time combat instead of turn-based fights.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.6%, Character Customization 24.9%, Open World 24.8%, RPG 12.8%, Simulation 11%

Why You'll Like It: Like Battle Brothers, it is a brutal sandbox about turning a group of vulnerable nobodies into a hardened squad through survival, losses, and self-directed goals.

Explore the open world of Terscara as you advance through the challenging and tactical encounters in this epic turn-based tactical RPG. Form and lead a group of battle-proven companions, delve into the ancient dungeons to collect the elusive vault crystals, and end Xandar’s Wraith once and for all.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 21.9%, Sandbox 20.7%, Character Customization 17.7%, Open World 15.2%, RPG 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its core fantasy is almost exactly Battle Brothers-like: lead a mercenary company across a sandbox map, hire and equip troops, and fight tactical battles with lasting consequences.

Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 43.9%, Strategy 22.3%, Character Customization 16.5%, RPG 7.5%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the sci-fi setting, its contract-based mercenary structure, repair and payroll management, pilot progression, and lethal tactical combat closely mirror Battle Brothers' campaign loop.

Command, endure, and prosper in The Iron Oath, a turn-based tactical RPG where the fate of your mercenary company rests on your decisions. Customize your roster, build your renown, and discover the secrets that await in the medieval fantasy realm of Caelum.

Why similar: Medieval 19.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.4%, Open World 16.3%, Character Customization 16%, RPG 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This dark fantasy tactics RPG centers on managing a mercenary company over time, with injuries, deaths, contracts, and a world that moves on without you.

Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 60.1%, Strategy 19.3%, Fantasy 14.3%, Singleplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its bleak low-fantasy atmosphere, unforgiving turn-based combat, and emphasis on attrition and positioning feel very close to Battle Brothers at the battle level.

In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!

Why similar: Medieval 16.9%, Horses 14.5% ★, Moddable 13.8% ★, Open World 10.3%, Military 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It remains one of the best alternatives for the open-world mercenary climb, where recruiting, equipping, and leading a warband produces the same emergent stories.

Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.

Why similar: RPG 28.8%, Medieval 23.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Strategy 14.7%, Open World 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Battle Brothers' grim tone, harsh survival pressure, travel risk, and careful low-fantasy combat, even if it focuses on a much smaller party scale.

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

Why similar: Moddable 43.5% ★, Sandbox 18.4%, Open World 13.9%, Simulation 8.2%, RPG 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: In space rather than medieval fantasy, it recreates the same procedural captain-and-crew sandbox of taking jobs, upgrading your outfit, and shaping your own campaign.

Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.

Why similar: War 18.4%, Moddable 18% ★, Open World 15.2%, Hack and Slash 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong pick if you want open-world roaming, recruitable followers, faction warfare, and a freeform rise from small-time fighter to major power.

The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 44.1%, Strategy 20.9%, Military 16.9%, RPG 12.7%, Action 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its mercenary payroll, gear management, overworld decisions, injuries, and tense turn-based firefights make it feel like a modern, grounded cousin to Battle Brothers.

Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?

Why similar: Historical 22.5%, Character Customization 17.3%, RPG 15.9%, Medieval 15.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing and outfitting a traveling warband while navigating hard tactical fights and a rough historical setting scratches a very similar strategic-RPG itch.

Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 25.8%, Medieval 24.2%, Character Customization 19.5%, Sandbox 18.7%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended adventuring, party building, and turn-based tactical combat capture a lighter but still very recognizable version of Battle Brothers' progression loop.

Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Lead a traveling company through a harsh, unforgiving world where survival is never guaranteed in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.

Why similar: Open World 54%, RPG 25.5%, Strategy 15%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its caravan and company management, punishing economy, recruitable followers, and dangerous overland decisions strongly echo Battle Brothers' strategic layer.

A unique hybrid between turn-based tactical games and traditional, character-centric RPGs. Knight's Tale is a modern retelling of a classic Arthurian mythology story filtered through the dark fantasy tropes, a twist on the traditional tales of chivalry.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 39.6%, Medieval 28.3%, RPG 16.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Battle Brothers is building a persistent roster through difficult, consequence-heavy turn-based battles, this is an excellent fit.

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Moddable 26.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 25.8%, Character Customization 24.6%, Fantasy 9.6%, RPG 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its procedural storytelling, lasting character development, and willingness to let your squad's history emerge through play align well with Battle Brothers' campaign storytelling appeal.

Warbanners: the turn-based, tactical strategy game with role-playing elements that lets you manage a squad of mercenaries, and survive 42 campaign missions. Your goal? To earn a place among ancient legends!

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 34.2%, Medieval 23.1%, Fantasy 12.9%, Strategy 12.6%, RPG 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on hex-based tactical battles, roster building, and long-term campaign choices in a way that should appeal to Battle Brothers players who love combat optimization.

Become the new Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild and lead your adventurers in explorations and turnbased tactical battles. Will the Guild thrive under your leadership? Or will it finally disband under it?

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 35.8%, Character Customization 31.4%, RPG 13.9%, Fantasy 9.6%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Running a guild, hiring and training adventurers, and sending them into tactical missions delivers a similar company-management satisfaction.

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 42.1%, RPG 19.6%, Strategy 18.8%, Fantasy 13.9%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great choice if you mainly want brutally efficient turn-based combat, hero builds, and the constant pressure of surviving with limited resources.

The standalone expansion for Mount & Blade! With Fire & Sword builds and expands upon the highly regarded combat system from Mount & Blade: Warband. Firearms have been introduced to the battlefield.

Why similar: Medieval 13.1%, Horses 12.1% ★, Historical 11.8%, War 11.2%, Open World 11%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps Mount & Blade's open-world mercenary rise and faction warfare, making it a good fit if you love the strategic sandbox more than turn-based combat specifically.

Legends of Eisenwald is an adventure game with tactical battles, RPG and strategy elements. Take the lead of a small feudal army and try to defend your right to survive in this ruthless medieval world.

Why similar: Medieval 25.2%, Historical 22.2%, Character Customization 21.1%, Third Person 14.4%, RPG 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its grim medieval-fantasy presentation, roaming structure, and tactical battles make it a natural thematic and mechanical neighbor to Battle Brothers.

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Why similar: RPG 51%, Strategy 25.7%, Fantasy 15.1%, Singleplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Even without the open-world layer, the stress, deaths, roster churn, and emotional investment in fragile adventurers hit a very similar nerve.

Enter Tahnra, a land savaged by war. You, a fresh academy graduate with humble beginnings, will grow to lead a grand army against a corrupt adversary. Gather heroes, form bonds, and lead your force in turn-based battles. Make use of tactics, terrain, morale and more to bring peace to the land!

Why similar: RPG 27.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 23.2%, Fantasy 22.9%, Strategy 13.6%, Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Building and training squads across a long tactical campaign offers a satisfying version of the roster-crafting and battlefield planning Battle Brothers excels at.

Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?

Why similar: Historical 30%, Turn-Based Tactics 29.8%, RPG 17.8%, Strategy 15.9%, Character Customization 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is less sandbox-driven, but its excellent turn-based combat, gear progression, and party management still make it a strong roster-focused alternative.

Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 32.8%, RPG 18.5%, Strategy 17.2%, Medieval 17%, Fantasy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Warband customization, permanent injuries and deaths, and ruthlessly tactical skirmishes give it a lot of the same tension and attachment to your roster.

Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 25.8%, Character Customization 24.5%, RPG 12.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Fantasy 10.7%

In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?

Why similar: Strategy 43%, RPG 41.4%, Fantasy 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends travel, survival, procedural events, and tactical encounters into a systems-heavy fantasy sandbox that rewards adaptation and risk management.

Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.

Why similar: Strategy 37.5%, RPG 32.4%, Fantasy 25.5%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its darker survival-RPG structure, roaming party management, and event-driven decision-making make it a good lower-ranked match for Battle Brothers fans.

Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.

Why similar: War 24.2%, Historical 23.9%, Military 23.6%, Open World 9.8%, Strategy 8.3%

Mortal Glory is a fantasy-themed tactical roguelike game about recruiting a team of gladiators and pitting them against brutal competition in a blood-soaked tournament. Train your gladiators, find a legendary sword, learn ancient spells, recruit a celebrity, cheat - do whatever it takes to bring glory to your name!

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 60.2%, RPG 17.6%, Strategy 17%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact gladiator format still delivers the familiar pleasures of building a roster, equipping fighters, accepting losses, and chasing money through tough battles.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Moddable 27% ★, Historical 18.1%, Medieval 15.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 11.8%

Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Recruit diverse units, create devastating synergies, and make tactical choices that shape the fate of every run.

Why similar: War 29.6%, Historical 28.6%, Medieval 19.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Fantasy 9.2%

Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.

Why similar: Horses 16.1% ★, Moddable 11.9% ★, War 8.4%, Historical 7.2%, Medieval 6.8%

Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.

Why similar: Medieval 21.2%, Open World 14.1%, Moddable 12.3% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, RPG 9.6%

Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

Why similar: Historical 17.4%, Moddable 16.1% ★, Medieval 15.7%, War 11.7%, Character Customization 9%

Dead Monarchy is an open-world, turn-based tactical RPG set in a low fantasy world. Personally lead and manage your mercenary company as the captain and embark on your personal quest to defeat the arena champions.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 25.2%, RPG 18.4%, Strategy 18.2%, Medieval 15.7%, Open World 13%

Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

Why similar: RPG 38%, Strategy 35.6%, Action 16%, Singleplayer 10.4%

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.

Why similar: Moddable 19.3% ★, War 15.8%, Historical 14.3%, Military 13.7%, Sandbox 10.6%

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!

Why similar: Moddable 28% ★, War 21.9%, Character Customization 16.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Fantasy 8.7%

Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!

Why similar: Medieval 23.9%, Open World 17.5%, Historical 16.6%, Horses 16% ★, Realistic 10.4%

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Moddable 35.8% ★, Historical 22.7%, Sandbox 16.7%, Strategy 8%, RPG 7.7%

Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.

Why similar: Medieval 29.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 27.6%, Fantasy 15%, Strategy 13.4%, RPG 10.4%

Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!

Why similar: Medieval 17.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Realistic 12%, Open World 11.4%

A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

Why similar: Medieval 34.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 31.1%, RPG 15.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Singleplayer 3.6%

An open-world adventure RPG. Choose your favorite character, train your elite legion step by step, and crush all enemies on the battlefield. Strengthen yourself, establish a powerful family, create a great dynasty, and become the dominator of this fantasy world.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, War 19.5%, Open World 16.9%, RPG 10.5%, Strategy 9.6%

The Adventurers is a turn-based tactical RPG where every decision shapes your legacy. Lead your party of heroes in an open world filled with random events that affect your story. Survive a high fantasy landscape where your epic saga is waiting to be written.

Why similar: War 19.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Medieval 15.4%, Open World 14.8%, Character Customization 11.2%

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: RPG 31.7%, Strategy 24.4%, Fantasy 20.6%, Adventure 9.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.9%

Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.

Why similar: Medieval 19.3%, Sandbox 19.2%, Open World 18.3%, Character Customization 12.5%, RPG 9.5%

Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!

Why similar: Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 17.3%, Medieval 16.7%, Character Customization 12.5%, Realistic 8.3%

Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 31.1%, Medieval 18%, Open World 12.9%, RPG 12.9%, Strategy 12.8%

Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!

Why similar: Medieval 16.5%, Historical 16.5%, Hack and Slash 15.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Realistic 10.1%

The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 29.6%, Strategy 28.8%, Fantasy 19.5%, Medieval 15.4%, RPG 4%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Horses 20.9% ★, Moddable 14.7% ★, Medieval 10.1%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 8.1%

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Historical 27.6%, Medieval 23%, Moddable 14.2% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.5%

Raise mighty armies, wield ancient magic and forge an empire. This turn-based strategy adventure game fuses strategic decision making, tactical combat and kingdom management.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 55.4%, Fantasy 23.4%, Strategy 21.2%

Voor de Kroon is an immersive medieval strategy-action game with historically inspired arms and armor. Fight historical battles and command your troops from the front line or the RTS camera. Use the Warforge editor to reshape the entire game and build your own medieval campaigns.

Why similar: War 23.9%, Medieval 19.3%, Historical 19%, Sandbox 15.4%, Realistic 5.9%

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: Moddable 23.8% ★, War 18.3%, Historical 18.2%, Military 15.8%, Sandbox 10.4%