Games Like Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)

Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 40.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 30.1%, Strategy 29.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, squad-based tactical combat that perfectly captures the grimdark intensity of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

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: Turn-Based 38.3%, Strategy 25.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features exceptional grid-based tactical combat and a dark, atmospheric aesthetic that mirrors the tension of Space Hulk.

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 38%, Turn-Based 29.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Violent 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished, high-octane turn-based tactical experience with movement and action point systems very similar to the seed game.

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game set in the grimdark universe of the 41st Millennium. Pick your force, develop your army, field mighty heroes and fight for victory using superior strategy, awesome abilities, and devastating weaponry.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 67.2% ★, Strategy 8%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.9%, Turn-Based 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers satisfying turn-based tactical combat with a focus on unit synergy and army management in the 40k setting.

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 46.7%, Strategy 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, faithful adaptation of a Games Workshop board game that emphasizes positioning and tactical survival.

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: Turn-Based 40.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.9%, Strategy 20.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for grid-based tactical combat, focusing on squad survival and high-stakes decision making.

Brutal, crazy, tactical… this is BLOOD BOWL! The iconic death sport returns with the new video game of fantasy football faithfully using the latest board game rules and new content. Create your team, then crush, mulch and cheat your way to the top... leaving your opponents in the graveyard.

Why similar: Turn-Based 32.8%, Violent 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct adaptation of a classic Games Workshop board game that emphasizes turn-based strategy and high-stakes risk management.

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 35.2%, Strategy 35.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines stealth-based exploration with intense, grid-based tactical combat in a claustrophobic, post-apocalyptic world.

Deep below the hive cities of Necromunda, lead, customize and grow your gang in the twisted tunnels of the dystopian Underhive. Face rival gangs in tactical gunfights for power, wealth, survival, and honor.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 69.3% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8%, Games Workshop 5.1% ★, Violent 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the verticality and claustrophobic nature of 40k combat through a turn-based tactical lens.

The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 54.8%, Strategy 45.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers advanced tactical combat with destructible environments and complex enemy AI that demands careful positioning.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.

Why similar: Turn-Based 32.9%, Strategy 30.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that emphasizes the brutal, unrelenting nature of 40k warfare on a larger scale.

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 57.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 42.5%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging, turn-based tactical game where squad positioning and management are vital to surviving brutal encounters.

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 79.2% ★, Strategy 10.3%, Games Workshop 6.8% ★, Violent 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: While real-time, it provides a deep tactical experience focused on positioning and managing massive 40k warships.

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: Turn-Based 38.2%, Strategy 23.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-tension, grid-based tactical movement and stealth, mirroring the cat-and-mouse feel of Space Hulk.

Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!

Why similar: Turn-Based 64.1%, Strategy 17.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep, grid-based tactical combat set within a rich, atmospheric, and dark sci-fi world.

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: Turn-Based 37.3%, Violent 30.1%, Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, squad-based tactical RPG experience with a focus on environmental interaction and strategic combat.

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 32.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 25.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.6%, Turn-Based 17.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep, realistic tactical combat with a strong emphasis on squad positioning and line-of-sight management.

Conquer the Mortal Realms! The first strategy videogame adaptation of Age of Sigmar’s dark-fantasy universe. Lead your highly-customisable force in challenging roguelike campaigns, unlocking new units, equipment and skills in dynamic, turn-based warfare.

Why similar: Games Workshop 34.5% ★, Strategy 26.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-based tactical game that emphasizes unit abilities and terrain usage in a fantasy setting.

The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!

Why similar: Turn-Based 39.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 31.6%, Strategy 23.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational modern tactical game that defined the genre's focus on squad management and high-stakes combat.

The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 70.9% ★, Turn-Based 11.1%, Games Workshop 9.3% ★, Strategy 5.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 3.2%

Become an elite Fire Warrior and fight the forces of the Imperium of Man in an action-packed classic FPS. Experience Warhammer 40,000 from a unique T'au perspective with a story full of twists and betrayal.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 84.2% ★, Games Workshop 8% ★, Violent 7.8%

Space Hulk: Ascension is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which re-interprets the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, new weapons and missions, new enemy types, 3 playable chapters and loads of other new features to the single player experience.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 65.5% ★, Games Workshop 11.7% ★, Turn-Based 9.3%, Strategy 6.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.2%

In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 64% ★, Games Workshop 10.8% ★, Turn-Based 8.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.1%

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 78.5% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Games Workshop 10% ★

Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach is a 3D turn-based strategy game like you’ve never seen before: fast, immediate, deep, impressive to look at and incredibly fun! Fight through a dark era of carnage and endless war and lead the Space Wolves in a struggle to defend the last bastion of mankind.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 60.4% ★, Turn-Based 11.6%, Games Workshop 11.4% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 4.6%

Liberate the planet Volistad from the Orks’ grip in Final Liberation, a turn-based strategy game set in the Warhammer Epic 40,000 universe. Experience a cult classic with large-scale tactical battles and iconic live-action FMV cutscenes.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 32.8% ★, Games Workshop 30.9% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.2%

Talisman: The Horus Heresy is a digital board game based on the Talisman rule system and set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, during the cataclysmic events of the Horus Heresy.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 64.1% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Games Workshop 14% ★, Turn-Based 7%

Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition is a First-Person Shooter based on Games Workshop’s cult classic board game set in Warhammer 40,000 universe. Expanding upon the original game, and featuring a host of new content, new features and a richer multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Violent 100%

Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.

Why similar: Turn-Based 33.7%, Violent 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Strategy 17.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition is the ultimate Dawn of War experience, featuring the original Dawn of War and all its expansions, along with enhanced visuals, an improved camera, and 64-bit platform support.

Why similar: Strategy 79.2%, Violent 20.8%

All of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War in one glorious package. Play the genre-defining classic real time strategy game in all its blood-soaked glory, including four complete campaigns and nine full-fledged factions.

Why similar: Strategy 89.1%, Violent 10.9%

Build a powerful army of cards from your favourite faction in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and battle other players in fast-paced, turn based online combat! In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war!

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 87% ★, Strategy 13%

All of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II in one package. Play the award-winning real-time strategy game in all its glory, including three full campaigns, six multiplayer factions, and a full co-op Last Stand mode with eight unique heroes.

Why similar: Strategy 90.8%, Violent 9.2%

Based on the classic tabletop game, Warhammer Quest is an addictive mix of role-playing and strategy.

Why similar: Turn-Based 47.4%, Strategy 26.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%

Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 53%, Strategy 47%

XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.

Why similar: Turn-Based 29.8%, Strategy 29.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%

Challenge the horrifying reign of Nazi terror and battle an immortal evil in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics; a turn-based tactical strategy game set in the award-winning Achtung! Cthulhu universe.

Why similar: Turn-Based 30.2%, Violent 22.2%, Strategy 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.6%

Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.

Why similar: Strategy 65.5%, Violent 34.5%

A vast choice-based digital gamebook set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe where you are a Space Marine!

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 87% ★, Games Workshop 13% ★

Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Enter the Warhammer Fantasy world in Warhammer: Dark Omen, a classic real-time strategy game known for its tactical battles, atmospheric campaign, and cult-classic status.

Why similar: Games Workshop 58.1% ★, Strategy 41.9%

Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.

Why similar: Violent 100%

Step into a brutal battle between three warring factions In Dawn of War III you will have no choice but to face your foes when a catastrophic weapon is found on the mysterious world of Acheron.

Why similar: Strategy 78.7%, Violent 21.3%

Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times is the sequel to a turn based strategy classic, Warhammer Quest. It’s stunning visuals and deep tactical gameplay are an addictive mix that is a feast for the senses.

Why similar: Strategy 49.2%, Games Workshop 35.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%