Games like Urtuk: The Desolation
If Urtuk: The Desolation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Land of Ruins, The Last Spell and Deep Fringe — 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 →Urtuk: The Desolation is a turn-based tactical RPG set in a post-apocalyptic low-fantasy world, developed and published by David Kaleta, released in 2021 at $13.99. Combat takes place on hex grids where positioning influences outcomes and environmental interactions allow tactical use of shoves and pits against enemies. A character injury-recovery system creates stakes around wounded party members who can heal or suffer permanent loss. Reviewers note the mutator system enables on-the-fly testing of character builds against modified rules. Players describe the atmosphere as dark and immersive with challenging difficulty. The game is verified for Steam Deck and holds an 88% positive review score from 1,133 Steam reviews.
About Urtuk: The Desolation: Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.
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Land of Ruins
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Top pick for Urtuk: The Desolation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
《Land of Ruins》 is a classic hex-grid turn-based strategy RPG, blending light Roguelike elements with open-world map exploration, while focusing on faction synergies and character progression. Randomly distributed resources and enemies in each run provide greater replayability.
The Last Spell
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Shares an immersive mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Second-strongest match for Urtuk: The Desolation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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.
Deep Fringe
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Third-strongest match for Urtuk: The Desolation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Deep Fringe is a deep tactical RPG set in a biopunk post-apocalyptic wasteland. Lead powerful factions in turn-based brutal battles, leveraging the strategic use of an interactive environment. Modify or destroy terrain to achieve tactical supremacy. Craft legendary chapters with the level editor.
Farabel
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Ranked #4 for Urtuk: The Desolation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story. Develop your cleverness, your strategic prowess, and your inventive capabilities in order to survive!
Blackguards 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Ranked #5 for Urtuk: The Desolation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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!
Invisible, Inc.
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Ranked #6 for Urtuk: The Desolation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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.
Crowntakers
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Ranked #7 for Urtuk: The Desolation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
Fantasy General II
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Ranked #8 for Urtuk: The Desolation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
The fantasy wargaming classic is back! Lead powerful heroes and mighty armies into battle in this critically acclaimed turn-based strategy milestone. Level up and train your units and guide them through a gripping story campaign to decide the fate of a world on the brink of destruction.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Reviewers of Urtuk: The Desolation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Darkest Dungeon®
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Shares a dark mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Reviewers of Urtuk: The Desolation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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?
Battle Brothers
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Shares an immersive mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Reviewers of Urtuk: The Desolation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Gloomhaven
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Shares a challenging mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Reviewers of Urtuk: The Desolation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Lead your band of mercenaries in the land of Gloomhaven, work with unsavoury individuals, shape the fate of the region, fight your way through horrific places and get rich or die trying in this ruthless Tactical-RPG.
Mines and Magic
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Shares a challenging mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Reviewers of Urtuk: The Desolation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Multiplayer tower defense auto battler with economy. Combine unique abilities of your units. Expand territory and build mines to get resources. Find a balance between economy and army. Use spells to help your army. Relaxing, but challenging singleplayer campaign is available.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
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Shares an immersive mood with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Reviewers of Urtuk: The Desolation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Urtuk: The Desolation at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~64% under Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~46% under Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~55% under Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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
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Priced ~43% under Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~64% under Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
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Priced ~43% under Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam right now.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~64% under Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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Brotato
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Priced ~64% under Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.
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!
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Frequently asked about Urtuk: The Desolation
- Is Urtuk: The Desolation verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Urtuk: The Desolation 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 Urtuk: The Desolation cost?
- Urtuk: The Desolation is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Urtuk: The Desolation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Urtuk: The Desolation are Land of Ruins, The Last Spell, Deep Fringe.
- Who developed Urtuk: The Desolation?
- Urtuk: The Desolation was developed by David Kaleta.
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