Games like BadLads
If BadLads is your kind of game, the closest matches are ROKH, Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO and Ancient Siberia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its active developer updates, atmospheric and funny. 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 BadLads: BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.
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ROKH
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BadLads.
Top pick for BadLads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with BadLads.
Have you got what it takes to survive on Mars? ROKH is a multiplayer survival game featuring scientific realism and extremely deep crafting and building. Make the red planet your sandbox and create a thriving colony.
Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with BadLads.
Second-strongest match for BadLads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with BadLads.
Build a city, Create an Empire! Research 400+ technologies, and Build 70+ buildings, Craft and Trade 380+ items in an entirely player driven market. Fight Wars and Forge Alliances with thousands of players and create your own Empire in this award-winning, critically-acclaimed MMO.
Ancient Siberia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BadLads.
Third-strongest match for BadLads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BadLads.
Survival Sandbox MMO RPG which tells you about survival in Ancient Siberia. Users will have to fight with monsters, to build their own castles, to use magic, to participate in naval battles and tournaments, to join guilds and create their own clans. In Ancient Siberia only strongest survive.
WWII Online
WHY THIS
Shares persistent world and an atmospheric mood with BadLads.
Ranked #4 for BadLads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with BadLads.
WWII Online is a massive, persistent free-to-play MMO FPS driven entirely by players. Fight as Army, Air, or Naval forces and earn Victory Points to access more units. One global server. No scripts. Real outcomes. No zones. Huge world (300,000 km²). ENLIST NOW!
XERA: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BadLads.
Ranked #5 for BadLads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with BadLads.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
PixARK
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for BadLads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with BadLads.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Cultivation Tales
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BadLads.
Ranked #7 for BadLads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with BadLads.
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Dual Universe
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with BadLads.
Ranked #8 for BadLads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with BadLads.
Dual Universe is a first-person Sci-Fi MMO built and driven by players, in a single persistent universe. You can build almost anything out of voxels, trade in a free economy, lead industries, travel through space, explore planets, or wage war in a fully editable sandbox universe. Subscription-based.
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Rising World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BadLads.
Reviewers of BadLads cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with BadLads.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Thief Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BadLads.
Reviewers of BadLads cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with BadLads.
Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with BadLads.
Reviewers of BadLads cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with BadLads.
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.
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with BadLads.
Reviewers of BadLads cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with BadLads.
Grand Theft Auto V for PC offers players the option to explore the award-winning world of Los Santos and Blaine County in resolutions of up to 4k and beyond, as well as the chance to experience the game running at 60 frames per second.
BROKE PROTOCOL
WHY THIS
Reviewers of BadLads cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with BadLads.
A fully moddable city sandbox with jobs, NPCs, apartments, garages, gangs, and more. Broke Protocol is an open-world action game focused on roleplaying and custom content. Define your goals and identity in a persistent, reactive world where you write your own story.
Identity
WHY THIS
Reviewers of BadLads cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with BadLads.
Identity is a new breed of massively multiplayer online role-playing game where hundreds of players interact in a world of absolute freedom. It's the actions of players which determine your fate and the fate of the world you live in.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with BadLads.
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 BadLads.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with BadLads.
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?
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 BadLads.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BadLads.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with BadLads.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with BadLads.
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!
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Frequently asked about BadLads
- Does BadLads have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — BadLads supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to BadLads?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside BadLads are ROKH, Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO, Ancient Siberia.
- Who developed BadLads?
- BadLads was developed by CHEMICAL HEADS STUDIOS.
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