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Games Like Battle Brothers

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, RPG, Turn-Based, Turn-Based Strategy.

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Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

Reviews: Very Positive — 88% — of 28,918 reviews
Released: 2017-03-24
Developer: Overhype Studios
Publisher: Hooded Horse
Genres: RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 18.9 hrs
Mean playtime: 94.7 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 90%

Overview

Battle Brothers stands out for its unforgiving low-fantasy sandbox, recruitable and expendable mercenaries, deep equipment progression, and tense turn-based battles where injuries and losses matter. These picks prioritize tactical squad combat paired with persistent roster management, open-ended campaigning, hard choices, and similarly gritty worlds. A few broaden the setting beyond medieval fantasy while preserving the company-building and high-stakes tactical feel.

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  1. #1 Wartales
    97% matchVery Positive85% of 36,051 reviews2023
    Dev: Shiro Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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: Turn-Based Strategy 26.3%, Tactical RPG 19.5%, Turn-Based Combat 17.8%, Turn-Based 17.2%, RPG 12.4%

    Why You'll Like It: It closely mirrors Battle Brothers’ roaming mercenary-company structure, contract-driven open world, recruitable companions, gear progression, and gritty turn-based fights.

  2. #2 Urtuk: The Desolation
    96% matchVery Positive88% of 2,546 reviews2021
    Dev: David Kaleta
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    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: Tactical RPG 19.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 16%, Turn-Based 15.4%, Turn-Based Combat 12%, Tactical 10.8%

    Why You'll Like It: This dark tactical RPG emphasizes positioning-heavy battles, a mutable band of warriors, injuries and losses, and a harsh low-fantasy tone.

  3. #3 MENACE
    95% matchVery Positive91% of 13,728 reviews2026
    Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 9.2%, CRPG 8.8%, Grid-Based Movement 8.1%, Tactical RPG 7.2%, Strategy RPG 7.1%

    Why You'll Like It: From Battle Brothers’ developers, it translates the persistent company management, difficult tactical decisions, and expendable-soldier tension into a sci-fi war setting.

  4. #4 The Iron Oath
    96% matchMostly Positive77% of 926 reviews2023
    Dev: Curious Panda GamesPub: Balor Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    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: CRPG 14.2%, Tactical RPG 13.2%, Turn-Based 12.8%, Strategy RPG 10.8%, Turn-Based Combat 9.5%

    Why You'll Like It: You manage a mercenary company across a changing world, balancing contracts, finances, aging fighters, permanent consequences, and tactical combat.

  5. #5 King Arthur: Knight's Tale
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 7,561 reviews2022
    Dev: NeocoreGames
    Windows
    Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    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: Tactical RPG 15.3%, Turn-Based 11.1%, Grid-Based Movement 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%, CRPG 9.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Its grim Arthurian setting, persistent knight roster, difficult tactical encounters, injuries, and moral decisions suit players who enjoy Battle Brothers’ weighty campaigns.

  6. #6 Xenonauts 2
    93% matchVery Positive81% of 5,852 reviews2026
    Dev: Goldhawk InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 11%, Grid-Based Movement 9.7%, Strategy RPG 8.4%, Isometric 7.9%, Cinematic 7.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Although sci-fi, it has the same high-stakes blend of strategic-layer management, soldier development, permadeath, equipment decisions, and methodical tactical missions.

  7. #7 Vagrus - The Riven Realms
    94% matchVery Positive85% of 1,889 reviews2021
    Dev: Lost Pilgrims StudioPub: Lost Pilgrims Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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: CRPG 27%, Strategy RPG 23.1%, Turn-Based 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, RPG 7.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Its bleak sandbox campaign centers on leading a caravan and crew through dangerous territory while managing supplies, contracts, travel risks, and tactical encounters.

  8. #8 Jagged Alliance 3
    92% matchVery Positive89% of 14,995 reviews2023
    Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: THQ Nordic
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 15.8%, Tactical 11.9%, Tactical RPG 11.9%, Turn-Based Combat 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%

    Why You'll Like It: It delivers excellent turn-based squad tactics alongside mercenary hiring, weapon loadouts, sector control, injuries, and a reactive campaign map.

  9. #9 Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
    91% matchVery Positive94% of 3,234 reviews2025
    Dev: Trese Brothers
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

    Why similar: Turn-Based 10.8%, Tactical RPG 9.7%, Military 8.8%, Strategy RPG 8.7%, Isometric 8.5%

    Why You'll Like It: This cyberpunk mercenary-management game combines a customizable crew, contracts, base operations, lasting wounds, and tense turn-based infiltration combat.

  10. #10 Expeditions: Viking
    91% matchVery Positive83% of 4,210 reviews2017
    Dev: Logic ArtistsPub: THQ Nordic
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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: Turn-Based 29.9%, CRPG 13%, Character Customization 10.7%, RPG 10.1%, Turn-Based Combat 8.5%

    Why You'll Like It: A grounded historical campaign with party management, travel, resource pressures, consequential choices, and tactical battles makes it a strong medieval alternative.

  11. #11 Glorious Companions
    90% matchMixed62% of 209 reviews2024
    Dev: Ancient Forge
    Windows

    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 15.8%, Tactical RPG 14.5%, Strategy RPG 12%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, Isometric 9.9%

    Why You'll Like It: It is built around raising and equipping a band of medieval fighters for tactical battles, with a sandbox-like emphasis on formation and unit development.

  12. #12 Those Who Rule
    89% matchVery Positive90% of 1,138 reviews2025
    Dev: Eldin Turulja
    Windows

    Join three fresh recruits caught in a web of betrayal as war looms over the land. Lead your band of heroes through tactical turn-based battles, master unique abilities, and forge powerful gear to turn the tide of battle. Will you unravel the conspiracy driving the conflict—or be consumed by it?

    Why similar: CRPG 13.1%, Tactical RPG 12.5%, Strategy RPG 11.1%, Grid-Based Movement 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%

    Why You'll Like It: Its compact fantasy campaign focuses on recruiting a team, making difficult strategic choices, and surviving tactical battles where each fighter matters.

  13. #13 Warbanners
    89% matchMostly Positive71% of 615 reviews2017
    Dev: Crasleen Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 18.1%, Tactical RPG 15.7%, Strategy RPG 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Turn-Based Combat 11.8%

    Why You'll Like It: This fantasy tactics game offers a mercenary-themed campaign with unit hiring, equipment choices, army persistence, and challenging grid-based engagements.

  14. #14 BATTLETECH
    88% matchVery Positive84% of 33,272 reviews2018
    Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    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 27.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Tactical 11.4%, Strategy 8.8%

    Why You'll Like It: It swaps swords for mechs but retains the appeal of running a cash-strapped mercenary outfit, taking contracts, refitting units, and surviving costly losses.

  15. #15 Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
    87% matchVery Positive88% of 6,367 reviews2019
    Dev: 6 Eyes StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!

    Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Tactical RPG 13.1%, Turn-Based 10.5%, Turn-Based Combat 10%, Strategy RPG 9.9%

    Why You'll Like It: Its highly customizable party, deep class and equipment systems, challenging grid combat, and permanent character growth reward the same careful planning.

  16. #16 Stoneshard
    86% matchMostly Positive75% of 35,730 reviews2020
    Dev: Ink Stains GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 38.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Turn-Based 42.6%, RPG 22.6%, Turn-Based Combat 21%, Strategy 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Its harsh low-fantasy setting, injury and survival systems, deliberate turn-based combat, and contract-oriented adventuring offer a more individual-scale counterpart.

  17. #17 Legends of Eisenwald
    86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,832 reviews2015
    Dev: Aterdux Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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: Turn-Based 22.4%, Tactical RPG 19.4%, Strategy RPG 16.3%, Character Customization 9%, Tactical 8.8%

    Why You'll Like It: It combines a somber medieval-fantasy world map, a small retainers-and-troops force, RPG progression, and turn-based battles with a similarly grounded atmosphere.

  18. #18 The Banner Saga
    85% matchVery Positive89% of 15,975 reviews2014
    Dev: StoicPub: Stoic Studio
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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: Turn-Based 23.9%, Tactical RPG 20.6%, Strategy RPG 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Tactical 8.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Its desperate caravan management, difficult resource decisions, character deaths, and deliberate tactical battles capture Battle Brothers’ sense of costly survival.

  19. #19 Wildermyth
    83% matchVery Positive95% of 18,287 reviews2021
    Dev: Worldwalker Games LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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: Tactical RPG 21.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.4%, Turn-Based 18.9%, Character Customization 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Its procedurally evolving heroes, tactical battles, character injuries and transformations, and emergent campaigns make losses and long-term roster choices meaningful.

  20. #20 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
    82% matchVery Positive88% of 298,242 reviews2022
    Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 62.4 hrsMean: 156.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    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: War 45.3%, Character Customization 17.8%, Strategy 17.4%, RPG 16.4%, Singleplayer 3.1%

    Why You'll Like It: It shares Battle Brothers’ open-ended medieval sandbox, roaming contracts, troop recruitment, equipment economy, and rise-from-nothing mercenary fantasy, despite real-time combat.

  21. #21 Crown Wars: The Black Prince
    84% matchMixed60% of 714 reviews2024
    Dev: Artefacts StudioPub: Nacon
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    The War of Crowns rages on. Knights and brigands run rampant throughout the land, sowing destruction. From your castle base, rise to become the lord who leads the battle against the forces of evil in this turn-based tactics and strategy game.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Tactical 8.9%

    Why You'll Like It: You build a medieval mercenary organization, train specialists, improve a base, undertake missions, and fight tactical battles with lasting soldier progression.

  22. #22 Low Magic Age
    84% matchVery Positive89% of 3,533 reviews2017
    Dev: Low Magic Studios
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 15.3%, Grid-Based Movement 12.9%, CRPG 12.4%, Tactical RPG 10.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.2%

    Why You'll Like It: This sandbox-style fantasy RPG offers party recruitment, tactical combat, dungeons, equipment upgrades, and a relatively grounded tabletop-inspired ruleset.

  23. #23 Expeditions: Rome
    82% matchVery Positive87% of 6,804 reviews2022
    Dev: Logic ArtistsPub: THQ Nordic
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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: CRPG 22.2%, Tactical RPG 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Tactical 7.7%

    Why You'll Like It: Leading and developing a force through a detailed campaign, handling supplies and personnel, and winning demanding turn-based battles gives it strong strategic overlap.

  24. #24 Kenshi
    81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 117,010 reviews2018
    Dev: Lo-Fi Games
    Windows
    Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 71.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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: Strategy RPG 51.5%, Character Customization 31.6%, RPG 16.9%

    Why You'll Like It: Its brutal sandbox progression, freely recruitable squad, injuries, gear scavenging, faction dangers, and emergent setbacks evoke the survival side of Battle Brothers.

  25. #25 Dead Monarchy
    80% matchVery Positive81% of 139 reviews2023
    Dev: Kevin Zhang
    Windows

    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 23.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.2%, Tactical 15.8%, RPG 13.3%, Strategy 12.8%

    Why You'll Like It: This grim tactical RPG emphasizes recruiting and equipping fighters, surviving difficult turn-based battles, and building a capable force in an unforgiving fantasy world.

  26. #26 Tabletop Tavern
    77% matchVery Positive90% of 2,141 reviews2026
    Dev: TJPub: Frostbloom
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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 31.5%, Isometric 28.9%, Tactical 25.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%

  27. #27 Tactics Ogre: Reborn
    79% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,630 reviews2022
    Dev: Square Enix
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.

    Why similar: Tactical RPG 28%, Strategy RPG 20.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.4%, Turn-Based 10.7%, RPG 6.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Its demanding tactical maps, class and equipment customization, permanent character outcomes, and war-torn low-fantasy setting appeal to the tactical side of Battle Brothers.

  28. #28 Veterum
    77% matchVery Positive86% of 252 reviews2026
    Dev: Crasleen Games
    Windows · Linux

    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: Tactical RPG 16.4%, Strategy RPG 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Grid-Based Movement 10.9%

  29. #29 Hard West 2
    79% matchVery Positive82% of 3,231 reviews2022
    Dev: Ice Code GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 15.9%, Tactical RPG 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Isometric 11.7%

    Why You'll Like It: This supernatural western alternative has a persistent gang, recruitable specialists, tactical positioning, layered gear choices, and dangerous mission-based progression.

  30. #30 Blackguards
    81% matchMixed62% of 3,921 reviews2014
    Dev: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 33.7%, Tactical 13%, RPG 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Tactical RPG 7.4%

    Why You'll Like It: This dark fantasy tactical RPG features punishing hex-based encounters, persistent companions, environmental tactics, and a grim tone close to Battle Brothers’ world.

  31. #31 Horizon's Gate
    78% matchVery Positive95% of 1,268 reviews2020
    Dev: Rad Codex
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 40.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Voyage into the wide world of Eral as an explorer, trader, or privateer. Defeat your enemies on land or at sea in deep but straightforward tactical combat. Unravel the secrets behind Dominio's betrayal – or sail off in search of your own adventure.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 19%, Tactical RPG 18.4%, Strategy RPG 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%

    Why You'll Like It: You build a customizable crew, manage equipment and jobs, explore a sandbox world, and fight precise turn-based battles with persistent characters.

  32. #32 Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
    78% matchVery Positive90% of 20,576 reviews2018
    Dev: The Bearded LadiesPub: Funcom
    Windows
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 20.9%, Turn-Based Combat 19.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.8%, Tactical 14.6%, Strategy 10.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Its stealthy overworld exploration, small persistent squad, scavenged gear, and lethal turn-based ambushes provide a focused post-apocalyptic tactical alternative.

  33. #33 Warhounds
    76% matchMostly Positive71% of 904 reviews2026
    Dev: Everplay DMCCPub: Brightika, Inc.
    Windows

    Warhounds is a turn-based tactical game about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action movie vibe, inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance. Recruit unique fighters, upgrade your base, and fight for Africa’s future. Less fake RNG, more true ballistics and lethal tactics.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.5%, Isometric 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Strategy RPG 8.9%

  34. #34 The Adventurers
    75% matchMostly Positive77% of 155 reviews2026
    Dev: Eternal Vigilance Entertainment
    Windows

    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: Tactical RPG 15.6%, Strategy RPG 15.1%, War 14.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

  35. #35 Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
    76% matchVery Positive90% of 486 reviews2022
    Dev: Rarykos
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: Turn-Based 21.5%, Strategy RPG 13.4%, Tactical RPG 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%

  36. #36 Master of Command
    73% matchVery Positive92% of 4,017 reviews2025
    Dev: Armchair Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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: Military 25.4%, War 24.5%, Strategy RPG 21.3%, Tactical 17.8%, Strategy 8.8%

  37. #37 Songs of Conquest
    74% matchVery Positive86% of 13,568 reviews2024
    Dev: LavapotionPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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: Strategy RPG 18.2%, Tactical RPG 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Combat 14.6%

  38. #38 STAR WARS Zero Company™
    72% matchVery Positive83% of 22,156 reviews2026
    Dev: Bit ReactorPub: Electronic Arts
    Windows
    Median: 16.0 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Command an elite squad through a gritty and authentic story in STAR WARS Zero Company™, a single-player turn-based tactics game set in the twilight of the Clone Wars™.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 12.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.4%, Isometric 8.3%

  39. #39 Age of Wonders 4
    74% matchVery Positive81% of 23,080 reviews2023
    Dev: Triumph StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 22.5 hrsMean: 61.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    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: Tactical RPG 15.2%, Strategy RPG 14.1%, War 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Turn-Based Combat 11.6%

  40. #40 Quasimorph
    71% matchVery Positive83% of 8,316 reviews2026
    Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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: Turn-Based 25.4%, Turn-Based Combat 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Tactical 14.6%, Sci-fi 8.7%

  41. #41 Lost Eidolons
    75% matchMixed68% of 2,410 reviews2022
    Dev: Ocean Drive Studio, Inc.
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 12%, War 11.8%, Tactical RPG 11.8%, CRPG 11.6%, Strategy RPG 10.9%

  42. #42 Hero's Hour
    73% matchMostly Positive79% of 5,752 reviews2022
    Dev: Benjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" HauerPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 25.4%, Strategy RPG 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.6%, Tactical 12.5%

  43. #43 The Last Spell
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 13,760 reviews2023
    Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 17.3%, Tactical RPG 14.8%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.3%

  44. #44 Norland
    70% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
    Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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: Strategy 79.1%, Singleplayer 20.9%

  45. #45 Battle for Wesnoth
    72% matchVery Positive94% of 6,024 reviews2018
    Dev: The Battle for Wesnoth ProjectPub: Wesnoth Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    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 27.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 26%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Strategy RPG 7.1%

  46. #46 End State
    73% matchMixed65% of 142 reviews2022
    Dev: Finger Squad
    Windows

    End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 13.1%, Strategy RPG 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Military 9.3%, Character Customization 8.5%

  47. #47 Crawl Tactics
    71% matchVery Positive92% of 221 reviews2022
    Dev: icefill
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 16.2%, Tactical RPG 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Strategy RPG 10.6%, Grid-Based Movement 10.1%

  48. #48 Gladiator Guild Manager
    69% matchVery Positive81% of 4,093 reviews2024
    Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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: Turn-Based 18.8%, Tactical RPG 17.1%, Strategy RPG 16.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Tactical 12.1%

  49. #49 SPARTA 2035 Prologue & Sea of Pirates DLC
    69% matchMostly Positive81% of 88 reviews2025
    Dev: Lipsar Studio
    Windows

    Turn-based tactics & strategy about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action-movie vibe. Command Sparta: recruit distinctive fighters, upgrade your base, run missions, and decide Africa’s future—no point-blank misses, with real ballistics.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 16.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Tactical 11%, Tactical RPG 10.2%

  50. #50 Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
    67% matchVery Positive82% of 1,412 reviews2025
    Dev: Ocean Drive Studio, Inc.
    Windows
    Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.

    Why similar: Tactical RPG 15.5%, Grid-Based Movement 13.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%

  51. #51 Solasta: Crown of the Magister
    68% matchVery Positive87% of 22,589 reviews2021
    Dev: Tactical Adventures
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Roll for initiative, take attacks of opportunity, manage player location and the verticality of the battle field in this Turn-Based Tactical RPG based on the SRD 5.1 Ruleset. In Solasta, you make the choices, dice decide your destiny.

    Why similar: CRPG 23.9%, Strategy RPG 20%, Turn-Based Combat 16.8%, Character Customization 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%

  52. #52 Bloodgrounds
    67% matchMostly Positive77% of 622 reviews2026
    Dev: Exordium GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    Bloodgrounds merges tactical turn-based combat with strategic management, RPG and roguelite elements. Forged in the pits of the arena, you fought your way out and now as a wealthy patron you recruit, train, and command your team of hardened Gladiators to glory - or death.

    Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 15.2%, Turn-Based Combat 14.9%, Turn-Based 14.5%, Tactical RPG 13.8%, Strategy RPG 12.5%

  53. #53 The Banner Saga 2
    70% matchVery Positive90% of 3,806 reviews2016
    Dev: Stoic
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 26.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.1%, RPG 15.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Tactical 9.4%

  54. #54 Ash of Gods: Redemption
    70% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,476 reviews2018
    Dev: AurumDust
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.

    Why similar: CRPG 14.8%, Tactical RPG 14%, Strategy RPG 13.9%, Isometric 13.8%, Turn-Based 12.3%

  55. #55 King Arthur: Legion IX
    68% matchMostly Positive73% of 847 reviews2024
    Dev: NeocoreGames
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Dive into a unique blend of turn-based tactics and character-centric RPGs. Lead the skilled Roman tribune Gaius Julius Mento as he navigates through the dark fantasy realm of Avalon.

    Why similar: Tactical RPG 15.8%, Grid-Based Movement 13.9%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%

  56. #56 Blackthorn Arena
    69% matchMixed69% of 3,780 reviews2020
    Dev: PersonaeGame StudioPub: Light Up Games
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    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: CRPG 41.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.8%, Turn-Based Combat 21.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%

  57. #57 Our Adventurer Guild
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,614 reviews2024
    Dev: GreenGuy
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 27.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    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 21.9%, Character Customization 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Tactical RPG 9.7%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%

  58. #58 Fight Life: Vanguard
    66% matchMostly Positive71% of 178 reviews2026
    Dev: StartImpulsePub: Two Cakes Studio
    Windows

    Engage in tactical turn-based combat, manage and upgrade each character, and strive to reclaim harmony in a world on the brink of oblivion. Take on the mantle of leadership as you guide a mercenary squad through perilous landscapes, selecting your comrades from a diverse pool of skilled recruits.

    Why similar: Turn-Based 21%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.6%, Strategy RPG 16.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%

  59. #59 Star Traders: Frontiers
    68% matchVery Positive83% of 3,816 reviews2018
    Dev: Trese Brothers
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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: Tactical RPG 36.8%, Turn-Based Combat 25.3%, Sci-fi 19.1%, RPG 9.7%, Strategy 9.1%

  60. #60 Mount & Blade: Warband
    66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 172,245 reviews2010
    Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 121.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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: Military 45.6%, RPG 30.3%, Strategy 21.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

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