Games like Basic Warfare
If Basic Warfare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nuclear Dawn, Oil Rush and Castle Story — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Basic Warfare: Basic Warfare is a combination of RTS and Action genres featuring realtime multiplayer action combat and strategic economic simulation.
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Steam players who put hours into Basic Warfare 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.
Nuclear Dawn
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Top pick for Basic Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.
Oil Rush
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Second-strongest match for Basic Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Basic Warfare.
Oil Rush is a naval strategy game that takes place in a world where nuclear war has melted the ice caps, changing the face of the planet forever. Oil Rush offers unique gameplay, avoiding micromanagement of every single unit, while still providing full control over all important aspects of strategy and economy.
Castle Story
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Third-strongest match for Basic Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Basic Warfare.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Satellite Reign
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Ranked #4 for Basic Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
Total War: WARHAMMER
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Ranked #5 for Basic Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
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Ranked #6 for Basic Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
8-Bit Armies
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Ranked #7 for Basic Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Basic Warfare.
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.
Faces of War
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Ranked #8 for Basic Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
Faces of War puts you in the heart of World War II – not as a distant commander, but as the leader on the ground. Combining the tactical depth of real-time strategy with the immediacy of direct control, it lets you issue precise orders or jump straight into battle as one of your soldiers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Basic Warfare at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~75% under Basic Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Basic Warfare.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under Basic Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Basic Warfare.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Basic Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Basic Warfare.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~75% under Basic Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Basic Warfare.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Basic Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Basic Warfare.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Basic Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Basic Warfare.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under Basic Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Basic Warfare.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under Basic Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Basic Warfare.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
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.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Basic Warfare.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Basic Warfare.
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.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Basic Warfare.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Basic Warfare.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Bloons TD Battles 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
Bloons TD Battles
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
One-armed robber
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Basic Warfare.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
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Frequently asked about Basic Warfare
- How much does Basic Warfare cost?
- Basic Warfare is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Basic Warfare have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Basic Warfare supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Basic Warfare?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Basic Warfare are Nuclear Dawn, Oil Rush, Castle Story.
- Who developed Basic Warfare?
- Basic Warfare was developed by Bog Iron Games.
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