Games like The Protagonist: EX-1
If The Protagonist: EX-1 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Element Space, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark and Blackguards 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 The Protagonist: EX-1: You’re a highly trained soldier on a mission to infiltrate an alien space station that goes horribly wrong—find your team and discover the hidden truth. Upgrade, Craft, and Discover technologies, Enhance your character’s skills in this gripping turn-based tactical RPG.
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Element Space
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Top pick for The Protagonist: EX-1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity. Face overwhelming odds with strategy. Make your choices and save us from extinction.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Second-strongest match for The Protagonist: EX-1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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!
Blackguards 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Third-strongest match for The Protagonist: EX-1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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!
The Banner Saga 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Ranked #4 for The Protagonist: EX-1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards.
Hard West 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Ranked #5 for The Protagonist: EX-1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Ranked #6 for The Protagonist: EX-1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Ranked #7 for The Protagonist: EX-1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Ranked #8 for The Protagonist: EX-1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Protagonist: EX-1 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under The Protagonist: EX-1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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 ~64% under The Protagonist: EX-1 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Protagonist: EX-1 on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Protagonist: EX-1.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under The Protagonist: EX-1 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under The Protagonist: EX-1 on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under The Protagonist: EX-1 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Protagonist: EX-1 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under The Protagonist: EX-1 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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!
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 Protagonist: EX-1.
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.
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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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 atmospheric mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Protagonist: EX-1.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with The Protagonist: EX-1.
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.
Frequently asked about The Protagonist: EX-1
- How much does The Protagonist: EX-1 cost?
- The Protagonist: EX-1 is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Protagonist: EX-1?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Protagonist: EX-1 are Element Space, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, Blackguards 2.
- Who developed The Protagonist: EX-1?
- The Protagonist: EX-1 was developed by 3Mind Games.
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