Games like Gears Tactics
If Gears Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are XCOM®: Chimera Squad, Wasteland 3 and Jagged Alliance 3 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cinematic, dark and epic. 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 →Gears Tactics is a turn-based strategy game set in the Gears of War universe, released in 2020 at $29.99. Players command squads against overwhelming odds in a campaign to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters. The game features character customization, skill trees, overwatch mechanics, power weapon pickups, and execution moves alongside gear loot boxes. Reviewers highlight that it captures the brutal feel of the franchise in a tactical setting, with cinematic presentation and character backgrounds adding to the experience. Players describe it as dark, intense, and epic, with flashy executions and gore that can be toggled on or off. The game runs as playable on Steam Deck and holds a 78% positive rating from over 3,600 Steam reviews.
About Gears Tactics: Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
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Top pick for Gears Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
Wasteland 3
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Shares character customization and a dark mood with Gears Tactics.
Second-strongest match for Gears Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Jagged Alliance 3
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Third-strongest match for Gears Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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.
MASSIVE CHALICE
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Shares an epic mood with Gears Tactics.
Ranked #4 for Gears Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.
Wintermoor Tactics Club
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Shares turn based tactics with Gears Tactics.
Ranked #5 for Gears Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
The Banner Saga 3
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Shares a dark mood with Gears Tactics.
Ranked #6 for Gears Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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
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Ranked #7 for Gears Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
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Shares an intense mood with Gears Tactics.
Ranked #8 for Gears Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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!
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XCOM® 2
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Shares turn based tactics with Gears Tactics.
Reviewers of Gears Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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.
Phoenix Point
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Reviewers of Gears Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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!
Phantom Doctrine
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Reviewers of Gears Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.
Shadowrun Returns
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Reviewers of Gears Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.
Wasteland 3
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Shares character customization and a dark mood with Gears Tactics.
Reviewers of Gears Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
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Reviewers of Gears Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
BATTLETECH
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Reviewers of Gears Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
Invisible, Inc.
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Reviewers of Gears Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gears Tactics at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Gears Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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.
Balatro
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Priced ~60% under Gears Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~50% under Gears Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~75% under Gears Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~79% under Gears Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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 ~73% under Gears Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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 ~83% under Gears Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~67% under Gears Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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 with Gears Tactics.
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.
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!
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Gears Tactics.
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.
Path of Exile
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
Splitgate
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
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Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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Another title from Splash Damage, the studio behind Gears Tactics.
The Master Chief’s iconic journey includes six games, built for PC and collected in a single integrated experience. Whether you’re a long-time fan or meeting Spartan 117 for the first time, The Master Chief Collection is the definitive Halo gaming experience.
Batman™: Arkham Origins
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Shares a dark mood with Gears Tactics.
Another title from Splash Damage, the studio behind Gears Tactics.
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Dirty Bomb®
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Shares an intense mood with Gears Tactics.
Another title from Splash Damage, the studio behind Gears Tactics.
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Halo 3 Mod Tools - MCC
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Halo 2 Anniversary MP Mod Tools - MCC
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Frequently asked about Gears Tactics
- Does Gears Tactics run on Steam Deck?
- Gears Tactics is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Gears Tactics cost?
- Gears Tactics is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gears Tactics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gears Tactics are XCOM®: Chimera Squad, Wasteland 3, Jagged Alliance 3.
- Who developed Gears Tactics?
- Gears Tactics was developed by Splash Damage, The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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