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Games like Bot Wars

If Bot Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are MiniWarfare, Attack on Toys and Unionatic — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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.

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About Bot Wars: Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map. Featuring corporate kill bot armies, ranging from a firearms and beverage manufacturer to a lovecraftian burger cult.

2021ActionStrategyIndieCasualEarly Access14.99 USDWindowsby Frompy Games
Bot Wars — Steam game cover
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Faction troops have distinct roles and goalsMaps are intricately designed and visually strikingNode capture system scales army size dynamicallyAtmosphericChallengingRetro

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Steam players who put hours into Bot Wars 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. MiniWarfare

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Bot Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bot Wars.

    MiniWarfare is a fun and fast-paced multiplayer shooter with creative game modes. Team up with friends, strategize, and dive into action-packed battles — from tactical showdowns and stealth missions to high-stakes extractions and chaotic challenges!

    2025ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Attack on Toys

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Bot Wars.

    Second-strongest match for Bot Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    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!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Unionatic

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Bot Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    Unionatic is an impressive game that combines strategy and village building. Construct your village, manage resources, and plan strategies while also experiencing thrilling TPS gameplay, controlling your character and engaging in intense battles against enemies!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dawn of Anarchy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Bot Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    In Dawn of Anarchy, you become an experienced soldier and combat mech pilot tasked with a secret mission. A factory producing artificial intelligence robots has gone out of control. Prepare for the decisive battle at the dawn of anarchy.

    2025ActionSportsStrategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Into the Cannon, Soldier!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Bot Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    You are the commander on the last line of defense. Hold your base, recruit soldiers, and launch them via cannon to another collapsing front. A cooperative (1-2 players) tactical defense game where your decisions decide the fate of two battles.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Future Tanks Area

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Bot Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    3D third-person shooter game. Control a tank using a keyboard and mouse. Go through various maps and destroy bots on your way. Fight with two main bosses on your path to complete the game.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Niut

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Bot Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    Niut is kidnapped and sent to an unknown planet (Anthara), where she will have to survive alongside other people who share the same destiny, fight against powerful enemies of other morphologies and delve into the mysteries hidden in this new stellar wasteland.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie3.00 USDSteam ↗
  8. HUNDRED FIRES: The rising of red star - EPISODE 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Bot Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    Prepare for the climactic finale as Montenegro returns for one last mission. Use your stealth skills to rescue your beloved daughter, Merche, and unravel the trilogy's thrilling conclusion amidst intense action and suspenseful gameplay!

    2023ActionStrategyAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bot Wars at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Bot Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Bot Wars.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Bot Wars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bot Wars.

    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 ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Bot Wars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Bot Wars.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Bot Wars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bot Wars.

    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 ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Bot Wars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bot Wars.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bot Wars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Bot Wars.

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

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Bot Wars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bot Wars.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Bot Wars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bot Wars.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Bot Wars.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 ↗
  3. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  4. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bot Wars.

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  5. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bot Wars.

    A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bot Wars.

    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!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Bot Wars.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Bot Wars.

    For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Bot Wars

Does Bot Wars work on Steam Deck?
Bot Wars is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Bot Wars cost?
Bot Wars is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Bot Wars?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bot Wars are MiniWarfare, Attack on Toys, Unionatic.
Who developed Bot Wars?
Bot Wars was developed by Frompy Games and published by Big Play Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Bot Wars.

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