Games like Dead Hand
If Dead Hand is your kind of game, the closest matches are Templar Battleforce, Phantom Brigade and Rhea of the Remnant — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modular customization feels limitless, 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 Hand: Dead Hand is a turn based tactical roguelike game set in a fully destructible procedural environment. Guide your Autonomous Weapons Platform in a fatalistic trek through a multiple level underground cave complex in order to fulfill your directives.
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Templar Battleforce
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Hand.
Top pick for Dead Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Hand.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
Phantom Brigade
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Hand.
Second-strongest match for Dead Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Hand.
Phantom Brigade 2.0 is a cinematic, tactical mech strategy game with a revolutionary timeline-based command system. See the future, predict enemy actions, and plot your counterattack on the timeline! Recruit and level up your squad of rebels to retake war-torn Fyrland from the Kaskad occupation.
Rhea of the Remnant
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dead Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Hand.
“Rhea of the Remnant” is a mecha Tactical RPG where you command a small group of allies to take on a powerful enemy force. Anticipate enemy moves, combine your allies' abilities, and devise the best strategy to secure victory!
Twilight Wars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Hand.
Ranked #4 for Dead Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Hand.
Twilight Wars is a tactical dungeon crawler set in a neon-drenched cyberpunk future. Corporations rule the world. Rebuild a shattered spy agency, assemble a team of elite operatives, and wage a covert war to reclaim the world from the shadows.
Netherguild
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Dead Hand.
Ranked #5 for Dead Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Hand.
Descend into Netherguild, a tactical grid-based roguelite. Lead expeditions deep into mysterious, strange depths. Explore, battle dangerous foes, and manage resources carefully. Push your limits before returning to resupply. What secrets await below?
SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dead Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Hand.
Beyond creation, four eras come together as one! Discover the latest entry in this iconic Tactical RPG series. Form your own team of SD Gundams and deploy for battle -- with units from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, SEED, 00, and Iron-Blooded Orphans!
Mainframe Defenders
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Hand.
Ranked #7 for Dead Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Hand.
MAINFRAME DEFENDERS - Turn-based tactics centered around gear and unit customization. It offers simple combat, high replayability, and tons of loot. Items don't just provide stats boost, but also offer distinct mechanics that can be combined into powerful builds.
Terra Randoma
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Dead Hand.
Ranked #8 for Dead Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Hand.
Terra Randoma is a turn-based roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated open world. Travel a world full of curiousity and perilous dungeons. Develop your character however you want with skills, talent stones and randomized items while you discover an ancient secret.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dead Hand
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Worms
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Reviewers of Dead Hand cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dead Hand.
Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.
Phoenix Point
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Hand.
Reviewers of Dead Hand cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Hand.
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!
X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Hand.
Reviewers of Dead Hand cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dead Hand.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Front Mission Evolved
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Reviewers of Dead Hand cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Experience piloting and customizing massive armored units called Wanzers while engaging in high-intensity battles driven by a compelling story. The battle begins now!
Cogmind
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Reviewers of Dead Hand cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Hand.
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
Jagged Alliance 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Hand.
Reviewers of Dead Hand cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dead Hand.
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 Hand at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dead Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Hand.
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 ~50% under Dead Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Hand.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Hand.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Hand on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dead Hand.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dead Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Hand.
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 ~60% under Dead Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Hand.
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.
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 Hand.
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.
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 Dead Hand.
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!
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Hand.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Spiral Knights
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Hand.
Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.
MechWarrior Online™ Legends
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Dead Hand.
MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.
AirMech
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Hand.
AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!
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Frequently asked about Dead Hand
- How much does Dead Hand cost?
- Dead Hand is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Hand?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Hand are Templar Battleforce, Phantom Brigade, Rhea of the Remnant.
- Who developed Dead Hand?
- Dead Hand was developed by One Man Army Games.
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