Games like Tempest Rising
If Tempest Rising is your kind of game, the closest matches are Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition, Iron Harvest and Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its clean modern visuals, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Tempest Rising is a real-time strategy game developed by Slipgate Ironworks and published by 3D Realms, Knights Peak, and Saber Interactive, released in 2025 at $29.99. Set on post-nuclear Earth, it blends classic base-building and resource management with unit customization across campaign missions. Players describe it as nostalgic and retro in its design philosophy, while reviewers highlight clean modern visuals and the importance of tactical positioning in combat. The game supports both singleplayer and online cooperative modes, running as playable on Steam Deck according to Valve's verification. Reviewers and players note its challenging difficulty and medium-length campaigns suit extended sit-down sessions. It holds an 89 percent positive rating from over 4,900 Steam reviews.
About Tempest Rising: Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
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Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition
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Shares resource management with Tempest Rising.
Top pick for Tempest Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Act of Aggression – Reboot Edition brings the techno-thriller RTS game Act of Aggression to a higher level. The Reboot Edition offers a full gameplay overhaul in skirmish mode against the AI and in your multiplayer battles.
Iron Harvest
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Second-strongest match for Tempest Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a nostalgic mood with Tempest Rising.
Third-strongest match for Tempest Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Crossfire: Legion
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Ranked #4 for Tempest Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
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Shares base building with Tempest Rising.
Ranked #5 for Tempest Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
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Ranked #6 for Tempest Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
Cossacks 3
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Shares base building, resource management and a nostalgic mood with Tempest Rising.
Ranked #7 for Tempest Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!
TFC: The Fertile Crescent
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Tempest Rising.
Ranked #8 for Tempest Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
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Reviewers of Tempest Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega.
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
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Shares campaign missions, base building and a nostalgic mood with Tempest Rising.
Reviewers of Tempest Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
The year is 2047. A massive nuclear fireball explodes high in the night sky, marking the dramatic beginning of the Third Tiberium War and the long-awaited return of the most groundbreaking Real-Time Strategy franchise of all time
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
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Reviewers of Tempest Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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.
守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
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Reviewers of Tempest Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.
Tower of Nod
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Reviewers of Tempest Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
In Tower of Nod, master sleep-based controls to manipulate falling blocks and build your path upward. Navigate shifting floors, deadly traps, and monsters in this action-roguelike deckbuilding platformer. Every run is unique—discover powerful relics and conquer the ever-changing tower.
Click and Conquer
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Reviewers of Tempest Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Click and Conquer is a short, relaxing incremental game. Drop bombs through the fog of war, uncover hidden enemies, collect rewards, and spend currency to boost passive income, increase bombing power, and unlock new maps.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tempest Rising at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Tempest Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~67% under Tempest Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
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.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Tempest Rising on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
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.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Tempest Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under Tempest Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~67% under Tempest Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
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 Tempest Rising.
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 Tempest Rising.
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!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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 Tempest Rising.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
NERTS! Online
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
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Frequently asked about Tempest Rising
- Does Tempest Rising run on Steam Deck?
- Tempest Rising 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 Tempest Rising cost?
- Tempest Rising is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Tempest Rising have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Tempest Rising supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Tempest Rising?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tempest Rising are Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition, Iron Harvest, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012).
- Who developed Tempest Rising?
- Tempest Rising was developed by Slipgate Ironworks™ and published by 3D Realms, Knights Peak, Saber Interactive.
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