Games like Dreadlands
If Dreadlands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jagged Alliance 3, Gears Tactics and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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 Dreadlands: Welcome to Dreadlands! A perilous landscape brimming with potential in the form of Glow. Command one of 3 unique factions in this turn-based tactical RPG and play through their campaigns, be it solo or Co-Op, or battle it out in PvP. So far no one has tamed the Dreadlands. Will you be the first?
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Jagged Alliance 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dreadlands.
Top pick for Dreadlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
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.
Gears Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Dreadlands.
Second-strongest match for Dreadlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
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.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Dreadlands.
Third-strongest match for Dreadlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
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.
Hard West
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dreadlands.
Ranked #4 for Dreadlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Company of Crime
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dreadlands.
Ranked #5 for Dreadlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force and crack down on the rising tide of corruption? Case out targets, then dive into the melee with your hand-picked team of gangsters or detectives.
Empire of Sin
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Dreadlands.
Ranked #6 for Dreadlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.
Wasteland 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dreadlands.
Ranked #7 for Dreadlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
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.
BATTLETECH
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dreadlands.
Ranked #8 for Dreadlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
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.
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Borderlands 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Dreadlands.
Reviewers of Dreadlands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Reviewers of Dreadlands 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 Dreadlands.
Reviewers of Dreadlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
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.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Dreadlands.
Reviewers of Dreadlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dreadlands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dreadlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Dreadlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dreadlands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Dreadlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dreadlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Dreadlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
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.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadlands.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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Frequently asked about Dreadlands
- Does Dreadlands run on Steam Deck?
- Dreadlands 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 Dreadlands cost?
- Dreadlands is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dreadlands have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dreadlands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dreadlands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dreadlands are Jagged Alliance 3, Gears Tactics, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader.
- Who developed Dreadlands?
- Dreadlands was developed by Blackfox Studios and published by Fatshark.
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