Games Like Jagged Alliance: Crossfire

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: Strategy 50.9%, RPG 27.9%, Tactical 21.2%

Why You'll Like It: The modern successor that successfully revitalizes the series' signature blend of tactical combat and strategic squad management.

Silent Storm from leading Russian developer Nival is a true 3D tactical turn-based Role-Playing-Game set against the backdrop of WWII. As the conflict rages on the frontlines, you’ll be leading a small multinational squad behind enemy lines to gather information and wreak havoc on your enemies while trying to thwart a mysterious new...

Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, RPG 38.8%, Tactical 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features highly destructible environments and deep squad-based tactical combat that mirrors the intensity of the Jagged Alliance series.

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a tactical game that places gamers in the small tropical nation of Palinero on the verge of a civil war. The mission: hire a band of mercenaries and take control of the deteriorating situation before the country finds itself in complete ruin.

Why similar: Strategy 51.4%, Simulation 34.9%, Tactical 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore tactical simulation that shares the same DNA and complex combat mechanics as the Jagged Alliance games.

7.62 High Calibre is a tactical action game, sequel to Brigade E5. A professional mercenary is in pursuit of a certain Russian "businessman", who stole a large amount of money from his "colleagues". Now he is hiding in a small country of Latin America to avoid an inevitable punishment.

Why similar: Strategy 36.8%, RPG 32.3%, Simulation 20.6%, Tactical 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An uncompromising mercenary simulation that offers extreme depth in weapon customization and tactical realism.

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.

Why similar: Strategy 37.4%, RPG 35.8%, Simulation 26.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a mercenary company with brutal, high-stakes turn-based combat that rewards careful planning.

XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

Why similar: Strategy 40.1%, RPG 38.2%, Tactical 21.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for modern turn-based squad tactics, offering deep base management and high-pressure combat encounters.

Even if the regime is totally inept and corrupt, don't suppose for a moment that you as the liberator will be greeted with open arms.JAGGED ALLIANCE 2: WILDFIRE brings you back to Arulco. The population is being terrorized by a reckless army; in the meantime the main export goods are drugs.

Why similar: Strategy 87.7%, RPG 9.6%, Tactical 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging expansion to the classic game that increases the difficulty and tactical requirements for experienced players.

The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.

Why similar: Strategy 50.7%, RPG 34.6%, Tactical 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical espionage game set in the Cold War that emphasizes squad management and stealth-based tactical planning.

Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

Why similar: RPG 46.9%, Strategy 39.6%, Tactical 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based RPG that features deep tactical combat and meaningful choices in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Broken Lines is a story-driven tactical RPG set in an alternate-history version of WWII. Lead a squad of soldiers and face the horrors of war. In the included expansion, 'The Dead and the Drunk', guide your troops through fights against both the living and the undead.

Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, RPG 48.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical squad game that focuses on positioning and movement in a war-torn setting with a unique real-time-with-pause system.

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: Strategy 46.6%, RPG 36.1%, Tactical 17.3%

Why You'll Like It: A modern turn-based tactical game that focuses on realistic combat mechanics and squad-level decision-making.

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: RPG 44.8%, Strategy 42.9%, Tactical 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines historical squad-based RPG elements with complex turn-based tactical combat and strategic map control.

A contemporary remake of the much-loved series of turn-based mercenary-themed strategy games.

Why similar: Strategy 41%, RPG 30%, Simulation 14.7%, Tactical 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: The core engine and base game upon which Crossfire was built, offering a real-time-with-pause tactical experience.

Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.

Why similar: Strategy 32.3%, RPG 29.7%, Simulation 23.4%, Tactical 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep strategic simulation that offers unparalleled complexity for players who enjoy the management aspects of the Jagged Alliance series.

The story is situated on Mars. It starts where UFO: Aftermath left off and runs simultaneously with UFO: Aftershock. While the Laputans on Earth are fighting Wargots and Starghosts and finding out what caused the destruction of their home planet, a small colony on Mars is trying to survive and flourish.

Why similar: Strategy 71%, Tactical 19.3%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical management game that balances base building with squad-based combat in a sci-fi setting.

In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.

Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, RPG 33.6%, Tactical 10%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends first-person shooter mechanics with grand strategy and squad command for a unique battlefield experience.

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.

Why similar: Strategy 61.9%, Simulation 24%, Tactical 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers highly detailed real-time tactical combat where individual unit control and environmental usage are paramount.

Jagged Alliance is back – With a new take on turn-based tactics, adventure elements and the well-known quirky mercenaries! Set 20 years after the first Jagged Alliance, this spin-off lets you experience a road trip into a jungle hell to test your mind and body to the limits!

Why similar: Strategy 38.3%, RPG 25.4%, Tactical 20%, Simulation 16.3%

Why You'll Like It: A spin-off that focuses on smaller squad sizes and action-oriented tactical combat in a survival-themed environment.

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: RPG 40.5%, Strategy 40.3%, Tactical 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game with a unique western theme and deep character ability systems that reward aggressive play.

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: RPG 51.1%, Strategy 34%, Tactical 15%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based RPG that uses hex-based combat and emphasizes character builds and environmental interaction.

MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?

Why similar: Strategy 52.1%, RPG 29.5%, Tactical 18.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep squad customization and tactical combat that emphasizes resource management and positioning.

Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.

Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Tactical 12.6%, RPG 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-production turn-based tactical game that excels at fast-paced, aggressive squad combat.

Widely known in small circles as AntiSquad, they are a military tactical response unit. These hardened military professionals, tired of bureaucracy, politics and serving the armed forces, have established a private paramilitary formation located in south United States.

Why similar: Strategy 82.7%, Tactical 17.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that focuses on squad synergy and unique character abilities in a variety of combat scenarios.

Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.

Why similar: RPG 45.5%, Strategy 44.3%, Tactical 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical space RPG that features squad management and ship-based combat with deep customization.

The latest title in the famous Combat Mission franchise of wargames, now on Steam. Shock Force 2 brings you to a hypothetical conflict in Syria between the forces of NATO and the Syrian Army. Play either on WeGo or Real Time in an incredibly detailed and realistic 1:1 tactical simulation.

Why similar: Strategy 47%, Simulation 36%, Tactical 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: An extremely detailed modern military simulation for players who want the most realistic tactical experience possible.

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...

Why similar: Strategy 50.5%, RPG 49.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox mercenary management game that combines base building with tactical turn-based combat in a wasteland setting.

Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Why similar: Strategy 55.6%, Tactical 24%, Simulation 20.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that focuses on stealth and squad management, requiring precise planning and risk assessment.

Army General is a turnbased strategy game that depicts the desert warfare in Northern Afrika and parts of the Mediterranean sea during World War II.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: A wargame that focuses on strategic and tactical warfare with a strong emphasis on hex-grid movement and unit management.

Partisans 1941 is a real-time tactics game with stealth elements, set on the eastern front of WW II. As an army commander behind enemy lines you gather a group of Partisans to wage guerilla warfare against the German occupants.

Why similar: Strategy 74.7%, Tactical 25.3%

Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

Why similar: Strategy 48.4%, Simulation 27.4%, Tactical 24.2%

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: Strategy 48.7%, RPG 34.8%, Tactical 16.5%

Jagged Alliance Flashback brings back the true spirit of this legendary series: Turn-based tactics meets crazy mercenary personalities and intense battles. Manage your squad of unique mercenaries, secure your income and take back the island - sector by sector, turn by turn.

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, RPG 29.8%, Tactical 16%

Conquer the New world: In the 16th Century, Spanish explorers and soldiers reached the shores of America. The search for gold, fame, and adventure drove these travelers into a treacherous wilderness where they faced hunger, disease, and dangerous predators. In their wake, the Aztec Empires lay in ruins.

Why similar: RPG 49.4%, Strategy 40.4%, Tactical 10.2%

A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.

Why similar: Strategy 45.7%, RPG 44.2%, Tactical 10.1%

Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...

Why similar: RPG 47.1%, Strategy 45.9%, Tactical 7%

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: Strategy 40.7%, RPG 39.7%, Tactical 19.6%

There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.

Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Tactical 23.7%

Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.

Why similar: Strategy 95.1%, RPG 3.8%, Tactical 1%

The small country of Arulco has been taken over by a merciless dictator - and only you can loosen the iron grip! Jagged Alliance 2 Gold Pack immerses you into an elaborate role-playing universe where you will interact with more than 150 characters, recruit your own band of soldiers and create your own custom mercenary to win...

Why similar: Strategy 56.7%, Tactical 25.3%, RPG 17.9%

Descending suddenly on the world, the macabre Mort armies destroy nation after nation, leaving humanity decimated in their wake. Among the forces resisting the Mort is a small band of mercenaries known as the Ashen Hawk Brigade.

Why similar: Simulation 49.8%, RPG 43.2%, Tactical 7%

Eisenwald: Blood of November is a new sandbox adventure in the world of Eisenwald. Take up your arms and fight for your cause (and find out first who or what you want to be fighting for).

Why similar: RPG 39.4%, Strategy 37.7%, Tactical 22.8%

Arma Tactics is a turn-based close-combat strategy game, where you take control of a four-member Special Forces team. There are no given strategies, rails to move on, or paths to follow; it‘s up to you to decide how you will play through both the story-driven missions and generated missions with randomized objectives.

Why similar: Strategy 78.2%, Tactical 21.8%

The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.

Why similar: Strategy 64.6%, Simulation 35.4%

Assume the role of a special forces commander fighting against a terrorist organization named "Dawn of Freedom".

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Europe is in turmoil. The lands are fragmented into petty fiefs and the Emperor struggles with the Pope. At this very moment the Pope has declared that those who go to liberate the Holy Land will be freed of all sins. Gather prestige and piety and the world will whisper your name in awe.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Near the border of the iron curtain in the soviet union lies a small village where unrest is brewing and supplies are scarce. You and your family have been sent there to bring order, where you will serve the USSR as a judge. Balance your own moral judgment with the opinions of those watching...

Why similar: Strategy 35.8%, RPG 35.2%, Simulation 29%

You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

Why similar: Strategy 71.3%, Tactical 20.5%, Simulation 8.2%

A tactical turn-based strategy game inspired by events and stories of forgotten and unsung heroes of WW2. Unique and new-to-genre features offer immersion and deeper protagonists to lead and care for. Lead the resistance against the Axis Forces.

Why similar: Strategy 71.4%, Tactical 28.6%

Disciples: Liberation is a mature, dark fantasy strategy RPG with turn-based combat. Liberate the land of Nevendaar and uncover the endless stories hidden within this richly detailed world where every decision has a consequence, and every wrong move could be deadly.

Why similar: RPG 43.5%, Strategy 39.5%, Tactical 17%

Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Explore the post-apocalyptic Crimea, its radioactive wastelands, swamps, dead settlements, and free the island from invasive occupants. Get the weapon you are most fit for, find comrades-in-arms, and punish those who ravaged your world.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout® Universe! You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling,...

Why similar: RPG 41.2%, Strategy 38.8%, Tactical 20%

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: Strategy 45.5%, RPG 42.5%, Tactical 12%

1971 Project Heliosis a turn-based strategy game which combines modern warfare military tactics and close combat. Firearms and vehicles are scarce, conflicts and hostilities have no end, and the terrible freezing cold annihilates friends and foes in its path.

Why similar: Strategy 84%, Tactical 16%

Fantasy Wars is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world. Combining both classic strategy gameplay and sophisticated 3D graphics players can experience epic battles like never before. Taking place in a fantasy world of Human kingdoms, Orc clans, Dwarfs' citadels and Elven forests the player is thrust into a world of war and...

Why similar: Strategy 89.9%, Tactical 10.1%

Combat Mission Fortress Italy brings wargamers to the "soft underbelly of Europe", a place that was anything but.

Why similar: Strategy 57.7%, Simulation 31.6%, Tactical 10.7%

ArmaCulture is an indie factory-builder RPG set in the midst of a bitter, industrialized war between two nations in a fictional world similar to our own. The game combines illustrated character art with stylized pixel art to create a unique and dark historic atmosphere.

Why similar: Strategy 50.2%, RPG 49.8%