Games like Last Train Home
If Last Train Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Great War: Western Front™, NationWar:Annals and Tactics of World War I — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and melancholic. 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 →Last Train Home is a strategy game released in 2023 by Ashborne Games and published by THQ Nordic. Players take command of soldiers attempting to return home through the chaos of post-World War I civil war, navigating harsh wilderness aboard an armored train. The game combines squad-based combat with train management, requiring players to balance resource allocation, maintain their crew, and employ stealth tactics and careful positioning during engagements. Temperature management, economic trading, and squad composition add layers of strategic complexity. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, immersive, and tense, with players noting that the historical narrative provides meaningful depth to survival scenarios. Currently priced at $39.99 USD, the game holds an 88% positive rating from over 2,100 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Last Train Home: The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.
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The Great War: Western Front™
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Last Train Home.
Top pick for Last Train Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.
NationWar:Annals
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Last Train Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
This is a deep focus on the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the grand strategy and real-time combat fusion sandbox game.
Tactics of World War I
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Last Train Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
Tactics of World War I is a real time tactics (RTT) game that puts you in the role of a military leader in the First World War. It requires you to plan your actions thoroughly and make smart tactical decisions in the blink of an eye.
On The Western Front
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Train Home.
Ranked #4 for Last Train Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
January, 1915. The Race to the Sea is over. The Great War has just begun. You are the commander of a single division in the meat grinder that is the Western Front. Lead your men over the top as you attempt to break the stalemate that is to claim the lives of millions over the course of years.
Renaissance Kingdom Wars
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Last Train Home.
Ranked #5 for Last Train Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
The year is 1510. As wars rage across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it is the age of gunpowder and mercenaries - that changed the course of history. You can do it as well, going from a leader of men to the ruler of an empire in this unique mix of RTS and grand strategy.
Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Train Home.
Ranked #6 for Last Train Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.
Rising Front
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Train Home.
Ranked #7 for Last Train Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
A FPS WW1 & Revolutionary War battle simulator with a focus on Workshop Content, rag-doll physics, intelligent AI, massive battles, procedural AI cover system, real-time building system and FPS combat!
Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Last Train Home.
Ranked #8 for Last Train Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Last Train Home
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Partisans 1941
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Train Home.
Reviewers of Last Train Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
Partisans 1941 is a real-time tactics game with stealth elements, set on the eastern front of WW II. As an army commander behind enemy lines you gather a group of Partisans to wage guerilla warfare against the German occupants.
Total War: WARHAMMER II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Last Train Home.
Reviewers of Last Train Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
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.
WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Train Home.
Reviewers of Last Train Home cross-mention this title as a similar play.
WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes is a challenging turn-based tactical RPG set in an occupied capital during WWII. Pick your heroes. Navigate historic streets. Confront occupiers. And try to survive the 63 days of hell in this historically accurate portrayal of Poles fighting for their city.
The Oregon Trail
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Last Train Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
The Oregon Trail is back in a beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments, and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects!
Aliens: Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Last Train Home.
Reviewers of Last Train Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Last Train Home.
Reviewers of Last Train Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
The Final Station
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Last Train Home.
Reviewers of Last Train Home cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Last Train Home at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Last Train Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Last Train Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Last Train Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Last Train Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Last Train Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~81% under Last Train Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~84% under Last Train Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Last Train Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Last Train Home.
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Frequently asked about Last Train Home
- Does Last Train Home run on Steam Deck?
- Last Train Home 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 Last Train Home cost?
- Last Train Home is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Last Train Home?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Last Train Home are The Great War: Western Front™, NationWar:Annals, Tactics of World War I.
- Who developed Last Train Home?
- Last Train Home was developed by Ashborne Games and published by THQ Nordic.
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