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Games like Make War

If Make War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Total Tank Simulator and Bridge Constructor Portal — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative 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.

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About Make War: Do you want to become part of great battles? Lead the alien army in tactical-voxel simulator game Make War.

2019StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDWindows · macOSby Creepy Brothers
Make War — Steam game cover
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Absurd counterintuitive objectives hook playersHigh replayability with varied mission conditionsPuzzles force creative third party manipulationChallengingContemplativeDark

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Steam players who put hours into Make War also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares sandbox mode and a challenging mood with Make War.

    Top pick for Make War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Total Tank Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Make War.

    Second-strongest match for Make War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bridge Constructor Portal

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Make War.

    Third-strongest match for Make War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Make War.

    Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.

    2017StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Beast Battle Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares sandbox mode and a challenging mood with Make War.

    Ranked #4 for Make War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    Beast Battle Simulator is a physics based battle-simulation sandbox game featuring dinosaurs, animals, and humans. Kamikaze Zebras VS. T-Rex with laser guns, Lions VS. medieval knights; anything is possible! Watch as the beasts dismember and rip each other apart in gory detail!

    2018ActionSportsStrategy9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Make War.

    Ranked #5 for Make War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Game Dev Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Make War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Two Point Campus

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Make War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Wargame: Airland Battle

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Make War.

    Ranked #8 for Make War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Make War at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Make War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Make War.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Make War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Make War.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Make War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Make War.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Make War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Make War.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Make War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Super Hexagon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Make War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

    2012ActionIndie2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Make War on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Make War.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Nodebuster

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Make War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Make War.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Make War.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Make War.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Make War.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Make War.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Creepy Brothers

Other recommendable Steam games by Creepy Brothers, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Creepy Tale

    WHY THIS

    Shares an unsettling mood with Make War.

    Another title from Creepy Brothers, the studio behind Make War. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Creepy quest with the atmosphere of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Go through a dangerous adventure filled with puzzles and challenges! Perhaps it is you who will be able to solve all the secrets of forest and save the peaceful creatures?

    2020IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Creepy Tale 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Make War.

    Another title from Creepy Brothers, the studio behind Make War. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Experience the creepy tension of a brothers Grimm fairy tale in this puzzle adventure game. Follow the young and brave Lars as he embarks on a dangerous journey to save his sisters mind from the clutches of a mysterious evil.

    2021IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. StrikeForce Kitty

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Make War.

    Another title from Creepy Brothers, the studio behind Make War. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Comedic puzzle-adventure with strong RPG influences. Take away costumes from the foxes, create the most mad combinations of clothes, explore the world, find secrets and save the princess from the clutches of the cunning king!

    2018IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

    WHY THIS

    Shares an unsettling mood with Make War.

    Another title from Creepy Brothers, the studio behind Make War. Shares Indie with Make War.

    As punishment for her transgressions, Ingrid is sent to hell. As she struggles through the darkness that hungers to consume her heart, she makes her way toward redemption. Her fate is in your hands.

    2023IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Creepy Tale: Some Other Place

    WHY THIS

    Shares an unsettling mood with Make War.

    Another title from Creepy Brothers, the studio behind Make War. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Creepy Tale is a mysterious adventure rich in riddles and eerie atmosphere. An autumn morning promised a quiet fishing trip, but events took Martin to "some other place." Find the way home, uncover loads of secrets, and save everyone that you can.

    2024IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Picklock

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Make War.

    Another title from Creepy Brothers, the studio behind Make War. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    Join exciting adventure of escaping from cops. Be tricky and use your skills to complete your missions in green town. If you’re successful, you can enjoy well-deserved vacation at the seaside.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Creepy Tale: Snow Child

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Make War.

    Another title from Creepy Brothers, the studio behind Make War. Shares Indie with Make War.

    An explosive mix of action and mystery, seasoned with black humor and a sinister atmosphere. Journey into Hell alongside a brave boy named Blizzy and defeat Evil itself. Save the world and become a hero. But at what cost?

    2026IndieAdventure9.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The 'I Love Money' Show

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Creepy Brothers, the studio behind Make War. Shares Indie with Make War.

    Grab a weapons and fight! Play single player campaign or with friends in local coop. Wins the one who collects the most money!

    2018ActionIndieCasualFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares sandbox mode and a challenging mood with Make War.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Bridge Constructor Portal

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Make War.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Make War.

    Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.

    2017StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Two Point Campus

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Make War.

    Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Make War

How much does Make War cost?
Make War is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Make War?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Make War are Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Total Tank Simulator, Bridge Constructor Portal.
Who developed Make War?
Make War was developed by Creepy Brothers and published by Creepy Brothers, Maple Whispering Limited.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Make War.

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