Games like Dead Monarchy
If Dead Monarchy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crown Wars: The Black Prince, Mordheim: City of the Damned and Iratus: Lord of the Dead — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chess like tactical combat, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Dead Monarchy: 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.
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Crown Wars: The Black Prince
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Monarchy.
Top pick for Dead Monarchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Monarchy.
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.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Monarchy.
Second-strongest match for Dead Monarchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Monarchy.
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.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Monarchy.
Third-strongest match for Dead Monarchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Monarchy.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
Blackguards 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Monarchy.
Ranked #4 for Dead Monarchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Monarchy.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Monarchy.
Ranked #5 for Dead Monarchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Monarchy.
A tactical, turn-based RPG from the makers of Legend of Grimrock games. Every action, every turn counts as you control your party of heroes through challenging, handcrafted missions in the ancient, mist-clad Menhir Forest.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dead Monarchy.
Ranked #6 for Dead Monarchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Monarchy.
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.
Othercide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Monarchy.
Ranked #7 for Dead Monarchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Monarchy.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dead Monarchy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dead Monarchy.
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.
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Mount & Blade: Warband
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an immersive mood with Dead Monarchy.
Reviewers of Dead Monarchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Dead Monarchy.
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!
Wartales
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Monarchy.
Reviewers of Dead Monarchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Monarchy.
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!
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dead Monarchy cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Monarchy.
Reviewers of Dead Monarchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dead Monarchy.
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.
Battle Brothers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dead Monarchy.
Reviewers of Dead Monarchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Monarchy.
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.
Jagged Alliance 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dead Monarchy.
Reviewers of Dead Monarchy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dead Monarchy.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Monarchy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Monarchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Monarchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Monarchy.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Monarchy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Monarchy.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Monarchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dead Monarchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Monarchy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dead Monarchy.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dead Monarchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Monarchy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Monarchy.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Monarchy.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Monarchy.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Monarchy.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Monarchy.
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Frequently asked about Dead Monarchy
- Does Dead Monarchy run on Steam Deck?
- Dead Monarchy is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Dead Monarchy cost?
- Dead Monarchy is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Monarchy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Monarchy are Crown Wars: The Black Prince, Mordheim: City of the Damned, Iratus: Lord of the Dead.
- Who developed Dead Monarchy?
- Dead Monarchy was developed by Kevin Zhang.
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