Games like GearHead Caramel
If GearHead Caramel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rhea of the Remnant, Wasteland 3 and Templar Battleforce — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and retro. 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 GearHead Caramel: A turn based tactics style Roguelike mecha RPG set in a world recovering from the apocalypse. Take control of an 18m, 50 ton death machine and build a team of unique lancemates. Features include a detailed mecha design system, procedural narrative, and both mecha + personal scale combat.
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Rhea of the Remnant
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Top pick for GearHead Caramel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with GearHead Caramel.
“Rhea of the Remnant” is a mecha Tactical RPG where you command a small group of allies to take on a powerful enemy force. Anticipate enemy moves, combine your allies' abilities, and devise the best strategy to secure victory!
Wasteland 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with GearHead Caramel.
Second-strongest match for GearHead Caramel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with GearHead Caramel.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Templar Battleforce
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with GearHead Caramel.
Third-strongest match for GearHead Caramel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GearHead Caramel.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
Mainframe Defenders
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Shares mech customization and a retro mood with GearHead Caramel.
Ranked #4 for GearHead Caramel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GearHead Caramel.
MAINFRAME DEFENDERS - Turn-based tactics centered around gear and unit customization. It offers simple combat, high replayability, and tons of loot. Items don't just provide stats boost, but also offer distinct mechanics that can be combined into powerful builds.
Super Robot Wars 30
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Shares a retro mood with GearHead Caramel.
Ranked #5 for GearHead Caramel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with GearHead Caramel.
30 years on, the battle for our world's future continues. Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG that brings characters and robots from a variety of mecha anime together to battle their mutual foes.
Swords and Sandals Immortals
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Ranked #6 for GearHead Caramel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with GearHead Caramel.
Gladiator! Grab your sword, equip your sandals and take on the world in multiplayer Swords and Sandals! Brutal turn-based combat where gladiators can lose limbs, wield guitars and yell so loudly enemy heads will fall off. This is the most fun you'll ever have in the arena!
The Age of Decadence
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Ranked #7 for GearHead Caramel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with GearHead Caramel.
The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with GearHead Caramel.
Ranked #8 for GearHead Caramel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GearHead Caramel.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below GearHead Caramel at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under GearHead Caramel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GearHead Caramel.
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
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Priced ~50% under GearHead Caramel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with GearHead Caramel.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under GearHead Caramel on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with GearHead Caramel.
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
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Priced ~50% under GearHead Caramel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GearHead Caramel.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under GearHead Caramel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GearHead Caramel.
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
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Priced ~50% under GearHead Caramel on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with GearHead Caramel.
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
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Priced ~70% under GearHead Caramel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GearHead Caramel.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under GearHead Caramel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with GearHead Caramel.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with GearHead Caramel.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
of the Devil
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with GearHead Caramel.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with GearHead Caramel.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with GearHead Caramel.
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!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with GearHead Caramel.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with GearHead Caramel.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with GearHead Caramel.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
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Frequently asked about GearHead Caramel
- How much does GearHead Caramel cost?
- GearHead Caramel is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to GearHead Caramel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside GearHead Caramel are Rhea of the Remnant, Wasteland 3, Templar Battleforce.
- Who developed GearHead Caramel?
- GearHead Caramel was developed by Joseph Hewitt and published by Joseph Warwick Victor Hewitt.
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