Games like Battle Cry of Freedom
If Battle Cry of Freedom is your kind of game, the closest matches are War of Rights, Holdfast: Nations At War and Task Force 88: Hostile Contact — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and competitive. 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 →Battle Cry of Freedom is a 2022 first and third-person multiplayer shooter set during the American Civil War, developed by Flying Squirrel Entertainment and priced at $10. Players can fight as Union or Confederate soldiers in large-scale online battles with commander mode and artillery, where tactical positioning matters significantly. The game features proximity-chat communication and unit customization options. Reviewers note the experience as competitive and immersive, with players highlighting the accurate uniform customization as a unique aspect. The title is marked as playable on Steam Deck and holds a 72% positive rating from 1,363 Steam reviews.
About Battle Cry of Freedom: Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.
Players who liked Battle Cry of Freedom also play
Steam players who put hours into Battle Cry of Freedom 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.
War of Rights
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Top pick for Battle Cry of Freedom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 400 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.
Holdfast: Nations At War
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Second-strongest match for Battle Cry of Freedom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server!
Task Force 88: Hostile Contact
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Battle Cry of Freedom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Experience this intense FPS / Third Person combat game in single or multiplayer. Play in four exotic locations with six competitive game modes. Fight as a seasoned Task Force 88 operator or as an evil mercenary creating chaos. Choose law and order or anarchy. Pick your side and stay frosty!
Verdun
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Battle Cry of Freedom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Merciless trench warfare immerses you and your squad in intense battles of attack and defense. Verdun is the first multiplayer FPS set in an authentic World War One setting offering a rarely seen battlefield experience.
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Ranked #5 for Battle Cry of Freedom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Hell Let Loose
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Battle Cry of Freedom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Join the ever expanding experience of Hell Let Loose - a hardcore World War Two first person shooter with epic battles of 100 players with infantry, tanks, artillery, a dynamically shifting front line and a unique resource based RTS-inspired meta-game.
Scourge Of War - Gettysburg
WHY THIS
Shares unit customization and an immersive mood with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Ranked #7 for Battle Cry of Freedom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Welcome to Scourge of War, a real-time 3D computer game/simulation developed by NorbSoftDev, the company headed by renowned game designer Norb Timpko, designer of Mad Minute Games' acclaimed Take Command series. Scourge of War is the epitome of historical command simulations.
Attack on Toys
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Ranked #8 for Battle Cry of Freedom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Battle Cry of Freedom
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Mount & Blade: Warband
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Reviewers of Battle Cry of Freedom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Battle Cry of Freedom.
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
War of Rights
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Reviewers of Battle Cry of Freedom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 400 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.
XANDO: Xtreme & Over the Top
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Battle Cry of Freedom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Cry of Freedom.
XANDO is a turn-based strategy game that flips the game of Tic-Tac-Toe on its head. Select from 4 rule-bending ability sets in order to complete boards, reduce your opponent's HP, and become champion in this corporate-punk world. Get ready and excited because Tic-Tac-Toe has never been like this!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Battle Cry of Freedom at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Battle Cry of Freedom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Battle Cry of Freedom.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Battle Cry of Freedom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Battle Cry of Freedom on Steam right now. Shares Action with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Battle Cry of Freedom on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Cry of Freedom.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Battle Cry of Freedom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Battle Cry of Freedom.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Battle Cry of Freedom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Cry of Freedom.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Battle Cry of Freedom on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Battle Cry of Freedom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Battle Cry of Freedom.
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 Battle Cry of Freedom.
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 Battle Cry of Freedom.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Battle Cry of Freedom.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Battle Cry of Freedom.
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 Battle Cry of Freedom.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about Battle Cry of Freedom
- Does Battle Cry of Freedom run on Steam Deck?
- Battle Cry of Freedom 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 Battle Cry of Freedom cost?
- Battle Cry of Freedom is listed on Steam at 10.00 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Battle Cry of Freedom have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Battle Cry of Freedom supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Battle Cry of Freedom?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Battle Cry of Freedom are War of Rights, Holdfast: Nations At War, Task Force 88: Hostile Contact.
- Who developed Battle Cry of Freedom?
- Battle Cry of Freedom was developed by Flying Squirrel Entertainment.
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