Games like The Last Spell
If The Last Spell is your kind of game, the closest matches are Depth of Extinction, The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming and Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its highly variable gameplay experience, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →The Last Spell is a turn-based tactical RPG combining roguelite elements with base-building and tower defense mechanics. Players command a squad of heroes fighting to protect humanity's final stronghold against waves of monsters, alternating between intense combat encounters and the strategic rebuilding of city defenses. The game features extensive character customization and meta-progression systems that create a highly variable gameplay experience, with players noting that tactical positioning matters greatly in combat encounters. Developed by Ishtar Games and released in 2023, the title carries a challenging difficulty designation and a $24.99 price point. The game has accumulated a substantial player base with a 93% positive review ratio across over 6,400 Steam reviews, and is verified to run on Steam Deck for portable play.
About The Last Spell: 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.
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Depth of Extinction
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Last Spell.
Top pick for The Last Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Last Spell.
Second-strongest match for The Last Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Last Spell.
The Storm Guard is a challenging turn-based roguelike role-playing game inspired by the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones. You assume the role of the Lord Commander of the Storm Guard leading the order during difficult times. An ancient dragon and its minions have returned, threatening the realm of men.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Last Spell.
Third-strongest match for The Last Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Ranked #4 for The Last Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes place in the world of Troubleshooter.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Ranked #5 for The Last Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
King Arthur: Knight's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Ranked #6 for The Last Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Last Spell.
A unique hybrid between turn-based tactical games and traditional, character-centric RPGs. Knight's Tale is a modern retelling of a classic Arthurian mythology story filtered through the dark fantasy tropes, a twist on the traditional tales of chivalry.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Last Spell.
Ranked #7 for The Last Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Last Spell.
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.
Pathway
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Ranked #8 for The Last Spell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Last Spell
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Mewgenics
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Last Spell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
Orcs Must Die!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Last Spell.
Reviewers of The Last Spell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with The Last Spell.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
Invisible, Inc.
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Last Spell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with The Last Spell.
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.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with The Last Spell.
Reviewers of The Last Spell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Last Spell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with The Last Spell.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Reviewers of The Last Spell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Last Spell.
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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Reviewers of The Last Spell cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Last Spell at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Last Spell on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Spell.
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 The Last Spell on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Last Spell.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Last Spell on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Last Spell.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Last Spell on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Last Spell.
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 The Last Spell on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Last Spell.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Last Spell on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with The Last Spell.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Spell.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Spell.
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 Action and Indie with The Last Spell.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Spell.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Last Spell.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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 The Last Spell.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Spell.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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More from Ishtar Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Ishtar Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Lakeburg Legacies
WHY THIS
Another title from Ishtar Games, the studio behind The Last Spell. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Last Spell.
Take fate into your own hands in Lakeburg Legacies, a social-based village management sim where love is your favourite resource. Play matchmaker to create the most effective, and most loved up, couples and help your kingdom thrive. How long will it take you to crown a sovereign?
Dead In Vinland
WHY THIS
Another title from Ishtar Games, the studio behind The Last Spell. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
Dead In Bermuda
WHY THIS
Another title from Ishtar Games, the studio behind The Last Spell. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.
Dead in Antares
WHY THIS
Shares base building, character customization and an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Another title from Ishtar Games, the studio behind The Last Spell. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
The Last Spell: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Another title from Ishtar Games, the studio behind The Last Spell. Shares Action and Strategy with The Last Spell.
Experience the first five days of The Last Spell. Lead a team of hardened heroes to defend the last bastion of humanity against hordes of monsters in this turn-based tactical RPG immersed in roguelite mechanics.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Last Spell.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Spell.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Spell.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Last Spell.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Last Spell.
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.
Frequently asked about The Last Spell
- Is The Last Spell verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Last Spell is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Last Spell cost?
- The Last Spell is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Last Spell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Last Spell are Depth of Extinction, The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark.
- Who developed The Last Spell?
- The Last Spell was developed by Ishtar Games and published by Nacon, The Arcade Crew, Gamera Games.
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