Games like The Old War
If The Old War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Warlords of Archaios Online, Icon: Voidfall and Battles of Chaos — 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 The Old War: The Old War is a dark fantasy co-op strategy game where your army remembers. Build a city from the ashes, train persistent units, and lead your people through a world consumed by the mysts. Every victory makes you stronger. Every defeat leaves a scar.
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Warlords of Archaios Online
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Top pick for The Old War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Old War.
Command either Humans, Orcs, Undead or Elves in a fantasy factions in a 2D pixel-art real-time strategy game. Build your base & army, gather resources, level up & gear Warlords, conquer bandits, use god powers, and battle AI or rival players online across, natural disaster & weather-struck maps.
Icon: Voidfall
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Second-strongest match for The Old War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Old War.
Become Arafel, The Dark, in this story-driven RTS prequel to Icon. Corrupt the Choir, spread living corruption across Atrum, evolve monstrous armies, and bring an empire to ruin as you set the stage for the coming Voidfall.
Battles of Chaos
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Third-strongest match for The Old War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with The Old War.
Battles of Chaos is a medieval fantasy real time strategy and tactics hybrid game, blending the best elements of the two genres. Play great, realistic open-field battles or sieges in single-player, cooperative or PvP mode, where the emphasis is on combat, with base building elements.
NexoHominis : Black Sun
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Ranked #4 for The Old War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with The Old War.
NexoHominis: Black Sun is a satirical SciFi RTS that revives the magic of genre classics while innovating on its core. You’ll wage a brutal resource war across a variety of game modes using a host of fresh mechanics that give you unparalleled control over your army’s tactics and play-style.
The Scouring
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Ranked #5 for The Old War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Old War.
The Scouring is an RTS with fast pace, high attention to detail and next generation experience. Lead humans or orcs in a Classic Mode or use one of powerful Heroes to fight for victory! Play alone or with friends. Use our modding tools to create maps and custom game modes! Join The Scouring!
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #6 for The Old War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Old War.
An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.
Total War: WARHAMMER II
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Ranked #7 for The Old War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Old War.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
Total War: WARHAMMER III
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Ranked #8 for The Old War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Old War.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
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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. Shares Action and Indie with The Old War.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Old War.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Old War.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Old War.
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.).
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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Old War.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Old War.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with The Old War.
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!
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Frequently asked about The Old War
- Does The Old War have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Old War supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Old War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Old War are Warlords of Archaios Online, Icon: Voidfall, Battles of Chaos.
- Who developed The Old War?
- The Old War was developed by Warchest Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Old War.
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