Games like Warpips
If Warpips is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bad North: Jotunn Edition, Little Crimson Heroes and Northend Tower Defense — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its amazing soundtrack, shockingly satisfying gameplay and atmospheric. 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 →Warpips is a 2022 action-strategy indie title featuring tug-of-war autobattler gameplay with procedural unit spawning and unit card selection. Players build compositions of soldiers, tanks, helicopters, and planes to overwhelm enemies through base-destruction mechanics. Reviewers highlight the gameplay as shockingly satisfying, while players describe the experience as atmospheric and chill. Published by Daedalic Entertainment with a challenging difficulty curve, the game offers medium-length sessions designed for short bursts. The title is playable on Steam Deck and currently holds a 90% positive rating from over 1,900 Steam reviews at $16.99.
About Warpips: Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!
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Steam players who put hours into Warpips 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.
Bad North: Jotunn Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Warpips.
Top pick for Warpips fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Warpips.
Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.
Little Crimson Heroes
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Warpips fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Warpips.
Little Crimson Heroes is a cute 3D tower defense game. Command young fighters of the Red Star Republic, build defenses, deploy machine guns, cannons, mines, and troops, then take direct control to stop the White Moon Federation’s invasion. Hold the line!
Northend Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Warpips fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Warpips.
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
Magic Kingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Warpips fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Warpips.
Self moving chess, RTS, Meat pigeon game. In the game, you will control the hero, lead a powerful army, release powerful magic, have a strong city defense, and coordinate resource collection to resist the enemy's strong attack
Starship Troopers: Terran Command
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Warpips.
Ranked #5 for Warpips fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Warpips.
Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!
Mechabellum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Warpips.
Ranked #6 for Warpips fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Warpips.
Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.
Taur
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Warpips.
Ranked #7 for Warpips fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Warpips.
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
Operation: Polygon Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Warpips.
Ranked #8 for Warpips fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Warpips.
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Warpips
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Warfare 1944
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Warpips cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Warpips.
Warfare 1944 is a World War II tactical shooter. The game is being developed MicroProse Software, Inc. Built using the OHDCore framework by Drakeling Labs for Unreal Engine 4.
Z
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Reviewers of Warpips cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Warpips.
“Z”, the classic Real Time Strategy Game by the Bitmap Brothers. Fans of this classic strategy title are in for a real treat. Everything is in here from the terrific comedy cut scenes to the frantic game play making this is the definitive version of Z.
Zero-K
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Warpips cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Warpips.
With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.
METAL SLUG
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Warpips cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Warpips.
“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on the Steam gaming platform!
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Warpips cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Warpips.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
NORTH
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Warpips.
Reviewers of Warpips cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Warpips.
Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.
Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Warpips cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Warpips.
Take command of mighty Vikings, sly Persians or brutish Demons! Destroy your opponent’s base while defending your own in this action-packed side-scrolling RTS!
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Warpips cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Warpips.
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?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Warpips at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Warpips on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Warpips.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Warpips on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Warpips.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Warpips on Steam right now. Shares Action with Warpips.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Warpips on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Warpips.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Warpips on Steam right now. Shares Action with Warpips.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Warpips.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Warpips.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Warpips.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Warpips.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Warpips.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Warpips.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Warpips.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Warpips.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Warpips
- Does Warpips run on Steam Deck?
- Warpips 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 Warpips cost?
- Warpips is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Warpips?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Warpips are Bad North: Jotunn Edition, Little Crimson Heroes, Northend Tower Defense.
- Who developed Warpips?
- Warpips was developed by Skirmish Mode Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
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