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Games like Tales & Tactics

If Tales & Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flawed Tactics, Auto Brawl Chess and One Last Sacrifice — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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.

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About Tales & Tactics: Roguelike Squad-based Autobattler in a Tabletop RPG setting. Draft your army, carefully equip and position your units, make important choices, and meet a colorful cast of characters as you make ready for the Grand Tournament.

2024StrategyAdventureRPG17.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Table 9 Studio
Tales & Tactics — Steam game cover
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Tactical positioning mattersWriting quality is exceptionalChallengingImmersiveAuto chessProcedural generation

Players who liked Tales & Tactics also play

Steam players who put hours into Tales & Tactics 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.

  1. Flawed Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Tales & Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tales & Tactics.

    The autobattler where the market IS the balance patch. Buy and evolve minions, cast spells, create powerful relics — but watch the ticker. Every purchase you make changes the economy for everyone. No permanent metas. No overpowered favorites. Just tactics, and flawed ones at that.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Auto Brawl Chess

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Tales & Tactics.

    Second-strongest match for Tales & Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    Auto Brawl Chess is a balanced blend of Auto Chess, Idle RPG, and CCG mechanics given form on an epic battlefield! Build your unique band of heroes, level them up, and set out on a thrilling Journey into the mythical world of Pangea waiting to be saved!

    2023ActionStrategyAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. One Last Sacrifice

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Tales & Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tales & Tactics.

    Most autobattlers reset after every match. One Last Sacrifice doesn't. Unlock skills across a branching skill tree. Build a deck. Improve creatures by crafting. Compete in 1v1 duels or 8-player elimination tournaments - sync and async play supported.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  4. Number One Rich

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Tales & Tactics.

    Ranked #4 for Tales & Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tales & Tactics.

    Number one rich is an 8-player board game. You roll the dice to determine the number of steps you take. You can buy land and upgrade buildings. When you pass through other players' land, you must pay rent. You can get the first place by bankrupting other players.

    2020StrategyIndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Oaken

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Tales & Tactics.

    Ranked #5 for Tales & Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    Oaken, a turn-based tactical roguelike set in the spirit inhabited world. Explore the Great Oak, gather allies and trinkets, learn to use the positioning for your advantage, choose how to upgrade your cards. Wake the spirits and save the Oak!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Looper Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Tales & Tactics.

    Ranked #6 for Tales & Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    Welcome again, wandering soul. Will this be the time of your success? Watch your steps as you advance in this roguelike-deck builder and engage in auto-battler card encounters of increasing difficulty. Get stronger in each battle, rise from the ashes, and break free from endless reincarnation!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure6.04 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Last Flame

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Tales & Tactics.

    Ranked #7 for Tales & Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    Recruit a party of unique heroes, fight deadly encounters, loot and craft powerful gear, discover and create thousands of synergetic builds! The Last Flame is an endless roguelike auto-battler in which you guide a righteous party of heroes through many challenges.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 洪荒:我挂机成圣

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Tales & Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tales & Tactics.

    洪荒是一款非常非常非常肝的文字素材类游戏,游戏中没有华丽的美术,闪亮亮的特效,完全以放置挂机的数值玩法为驱动,养成依靠打书、炼妖、修炼、构筑装备品质词条等搭配数百名不同的角色,在其中玩家更能够通过放置挂机获得宝物与资源,拥有各种神话传说中的角色,然后将获得的物品角色与其他玩家进行交易来养成自己最强的阵容。

    2024StrategyIndieSimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tales & Tactics at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Tales & Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Tales & Tactics.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Tales & Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Tales & Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Tales & Tactics on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Tales & Tactics.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Tales & Tactics on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Tales & Tactics.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Tales & Tactics on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Tales & Tactics.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Tales & Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Tales & Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tales & Tactics.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tales & Tactics.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Tales & Tactics.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Tales & Tactics.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Tales & Tactics.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Tales & Tactics.

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Tales & Tactics

Does Tales & Tactics run on Steam Deck?
Tales & Tactics 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 Tales & Tactics cost?
Tales & Tactics is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Tales & Tactics have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Tales & Tactics supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Tales & Tactics?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tales & Tactics are Flawed Tactics, Auto Brawl Chess, One Last Sacrifice.
Who developed Tales & Tactics?
Tales & Tactics was developed by Table 9 Studio and published by Yogscast Games, Gamersky Games.

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