Games Like Battle Nations

Battle friends over air, land and sea in this epic WW2-themed battle strategy game.

Why similar: Strategy 35.8%, Multiplayer 23.3%, War 20.2%, Action 4.7%, Base Building 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play strategy game that captures the same base-building and military deployment loop as the seed game.

{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

Why similar: RTS 33.3%, Real-Time 18.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust tactical experience with extensive base-building and unit management that feels like a real-time evolution of the seed game.

Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 49.6%, Strategy 27.1%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep turn-based tactical combat with a diverse roster of units that mirrors the strategic variety found in Battle Nations.

With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.

Why similar: RTS 35.3%, Real-Time 34.3% ★, Strategy 15.1%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Base Building 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A large-scale tactical RTS that offers deep strategic options and a wide variety of specialized units.

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Base Building 28.7%, Sandbox 18.4%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Strategy 13.7%, Funny 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building with physics-based combat, requiring careful planning and tactical execution similar to Battle Nations.

War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.

Why similar: RTS 30%, Base Building 24%, War 16.3%, Strategy 14.7%, Multiplayer 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base-building and evolving your civilization through different eras, much like the progression in the seed game.

Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.4%, Strategy 28.6%, Funny 10.2%, Action 7.2%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A competitive strategy game that focuses on tower defense and unit deployment against other players.

Army Men RTS brings you back to the days of staging battles with tiny plastic soldiers in your backyard...except these green soldiers carry out your every command!

Why similar: RTS 47.6%, Strategy 19.9%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Base Building 8.7%, Action 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a classic tactical experience with a distinct, stylized theme that mirrors the charm of Battle Nations.

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

Why similar: RTS 50.5%, Strategy 21%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Action 4.6%, 2D 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible RTS with a distinct visual style and unique unit types that emphasizes quick, tactical decision-making.

A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+

Why similar: RTS 29.4%, War 17.3%, Real-Time 17% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: Features a dieselpunk setting with unique, heavy-duty units that provide a similar sense of scale and tactical variety.

A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!

Why similar: Real-Time 22.2% ★, Strategy 13.9%, City Builder 13.8%, RTS 13.7%, War 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer city-builder that emphasizes long-term strategy and base development.

Pick your faction, Monster, strategy, and find out who gets to become King of the Undead!

Why similar: Zombies 31.7%, RTS 28.5%, Strategy 28.2%, Action 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-strategy game that focuses on controlling squads of units to achieve objectives in a stylized environment.

The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia.

Why similar: RTS 27.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Real-Time 14.9% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Known for its quirky unit designs and base-building mechanics that align with the lighthearted yet strategic tone of the seed game.

Create the ultimate fortress and wreak havoc, raining destruction on your enemies with catapult-flinging fun!

Why similar: RTS 24.5%, Strategy 21.5%, Base Building 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building with tactical combat, requiring players to manage their structures while attacking the enemy.

Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.

Why similar: RTS 63.2%, Strategy 23.5%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows players to customize their units extensively, providing a high degree of control over their tactical army composition.

An exciting free-to-play Real Time Strategy game set in medieval times. Uniquely designed factions, customization options, singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay. Gather resources, raise an army and lead your civilization to victory in a classic RTS, brought to the modern age.

Why similar: RTS 31.1%, Real-Time 25.9% ★, War 15.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game that focuses on base-building and managing different civilizations with unique strengths.

Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

Why similar: Zombies 56%, Strategy 20.7%, Funny 8.6%, Casual 4.7%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features quirky units and strategic lane-based combat that shares the accessible, fun-focused design of the seed game.

Step into the shoes of a maya emperor in this new take on the classic idle empire building genre! Start your settlement in the heart of the rainforest and develop ancient rituals and research, recruit powerful eagle and jaguar warriors, raid barbarian settlements, deal with friendly and hostile tribes and more!

Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, RTS 27.9%, Strategy 17.8%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Casual 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with a unique historical theme that incorporates strategic multiplayer elements.

Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Why similar: Multiplayer 39.8%, Strategy 19.8%, Funny 19.2%, RPG 14.2%, Singleplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: Mixes tower defense with RPG elements, offering a similar sense of progression and unit management.

Build your army, dominate your region and lead your alliance to conquer the globe!

Why similar: War 31.8%, RTS 27.9%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, massively multiplayer game centered on base building and global military dominance.

🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!

Why similar: RTS 28%, Base Building 22.7%, War 15.4%, Strategy 13.9%, Funny 11%

Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!

Why similar: War 26.3%, RTS 26%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Funny 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based war and tactical planning, offering a sandbox approach to siege combat.

In this tug-of-war, casual defense game， you play Leonidas who is the hero-king of Sparta, against hordes of attacking zombies in Thermopylae. Recruit allies and build defenses to stop them!

Why similar: Zombies 38.4%, Strategy 30.8%, 2D 13.6%, Casual 10.8%, Singleplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D strategy game that features unit deployment and base defense mechanics.

Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Why similar: RTS 35.8%, Strategy 18.1%, War 12.9%, Real-Time 11.2% ★, Multiplayer 8.9%

Create, upgrade, and customize your very own Bloons Monkey City in this groundbreaking blend of city building and tower defense awesomeness!

Why similar: City Builder 48.4%, Strategy 28.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Action 9.7%, Casual 1.3%

Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.

Why similar: RTS 34.4%, Strategy 21.6%, City Builder 11.6%, War 9.6%, RPG 8.3%

War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?

Why similar: Real-Time 28.3% ★, RTS 18.4%, War 14.7%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.9%

Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: War 33.3%, Sandbox 27.1%, Funny 16.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Action 3.6%

Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?

Why similar: Multiplayer 25.8%, War 21.9%, Shooter 20.3%, Sandbox 12.9%, Action 7.4%

Andalia is a fantasy real-time strategy game (RTS) with a diverse range of civilisations, resources and environments. Build up your town and lead your forces into war against enemy players. Alternatively you may construct a monument and hold it long enough to reach victory.

Why similar: RTS 32.5%, Base Building 19.7%, War 15.3%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Strategy 10.5%

From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!

Why similar: Multiplayer 28%, Sandbox 27.9%, Strategy 21.2%, Funny 10.2%, Action 8.2%

《Empries:The Rise》 is the a Cross-Platform Real-Time-Strategy (R.T.S.) game. Choose your nation and conquer those, who stand in your way!

Why similar: RTS 59.1%, Strategy 40.9%

Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 31.4%, War 23.4%, Multiplayer 19%, Strategy 16.8%, 2D 3.5%

Battle on the Front Lines with funny, crazy physics. Create your own battles between men and test out everything to the limits.

Why similar: Strategy 38%, Sandbox 26.9%, Action 16.7%, Casual 11.3%, Adventure 7.1%

Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.

Why similar: Real-Time 24.7% ★, RTS 19.3%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%

The ultimate physics-based, sandbox battle simulator where you can create funny battles between all sorts of ragdoll creatures! You can also make your own monsters with the unit creator or even join the battles yourself in the first-person mode!

Why similar: War 30.4%, Sandbox 23.2%, Funny 12.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Combat 9.4%

Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 32.2%, War 30%, Multiplayer 18.3%, Strategy 15.8%, Singleplayer 3.6%

​Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Sandbox 26.5%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Strategy 9.8%, 2D 6%

Collectible cards come to life in this tactics and CCG hybrid! Collect cards, build decks, and challenge players head to head on a Tactical Game Board. Play as Vikings, Pirates, Ninjas and more!

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Take command of mighty Vikings, sly Persians or brutish Demons! Destroy your opponent’s base while defending your own in this action-packed side-scrolling RTS!

Why similar: Real-Time 27.9% ★, RTS 22.6%, Strategy 20.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Action 8.7%

Collectible cards meets tactical strategy! Build decks, uncover crazy combos, and battle friends and rivals in TACTICAL CARD-BOARD COMBAT. Bring your cards to life and dominate the grid!

Why similar: War 24.7%, Multiplayer 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.7%, Funny 18.3%, Strategy 10.6%

Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!

Why similar: War 28.8%, Sandbox 21.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 12.6%, Funny 11.8%

In Mushroom Wars 2, enemy tribes of feisty mushroom creatures face off in short but fierce RTS battles. Step into the shoes of a fearless Mushroom Commander, choose a hero to lead your army, and take control of the battlefield in a variety of multiplayer modes or challenging story campaign.

Why similar: RTS 44.3%, Strategy 25.2%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Action 6.4%, 2D 3.2%

8BitMMO is a retro-style 2D massively multiplayer game! It's a giant construction sandbox -- you can build a home or a castle in a persistent streaming world. Found and manage your own city. Fight evil LawyerCats and engage in Player vs Player battle.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.9%, Multiplayer 22.2%, RPG 15.2%, Action 7.5%, 2D 7.5%

Step into the microscopic world of Mitos.is! Eat or be eaten—become the ultimate cell in a highly addictive multiplayer game. Diverse modes, daily tournaments, guilds, and gear await! The BEST game of 2015 is back!

Why similar: Multiplayer 32.2%, RTS 25.8%, Strategy 15.6%, Funny 13.3%, 2D 6.6%

From the genre-defining RTS franchise Command & Conquer comes a unique, free-to-play strategic warfare MMO experience!

Why similar: RTS 38.5%, Real-Time 35% ★, Multiplayer 16%, Strategy 7.9%, 2D 2.6%

Select an era, a nation and lead it to greatness or decay. Develop the economy and society, or focus on military and territorial expansion. In Nations you can rule your people for centuries – from ancient times to the modern day and beyond. You shape your state, history and map of the world.

Why similar: RTS 43.9%, Strategy 25.6%, War 21.1%, Combat 5%, 2D 3%

Build your cities, manage resources, train soldiers and fight for supremacy in a vast world with other player controlled empires

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Fantasy Battles is a strategy game in which you simulate epic battles against the undead.

Why similar: Strategy 72%, Action 11.8%, Casual 8.8%, Singleplayer 7.4%