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Games like Full Metal Sergeant

If Full Metal Sergeant is your kind of game, the closest matches are Until the Last Plane, Diplomacy is Not an Option and Northend Tower Defense — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but replayable campaigns, challenging and contemplative. 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 Full Metal Sergeant: Be the drill instructor! Insult recruits with no remorse! Can you transform flabby recruits into lean war machines within 12 weeks?

2023StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby CarloC
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Steam players who put hours into Full Metal Sergeant 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. Until the Last Plane

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Top pick for Full Metal Sergeant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Until the Last Plane is an airfield management game during WW2. Send pilots on mission. Craft spare parts. Repair your planes. Face your enemy and resist.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Diplomacy is Not an Option

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Second-strongest match for Full Metal Sergeant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Northend Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Full Metal Sergeant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Age of Empires® III (2007)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Ranked #4 for Full Metal Sergeant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Microsoft Studios brings you three epic Age of Empires III games in one monumental collection for the first time.

    2012StrategySimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Full Metal Sergeant 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares trait management and a retro mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Ranked #5 for Full Metal Sergeant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Manage your camp, drill soldiers into specialized war machines and dominate turn-based battles. 12 Weeks. 9 Recruits. 1 Rule: break them or lose them.

    2026StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Ranked #6 for Full Metal Sergeant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. This legacy version also grants access to the latest version of COH, just called "Company of Heroes".

    2007ActionStrategy36.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Stronghold: Warlords

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Ranked #7 for Full Metal Sergeant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

    2021StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Ranked #8 for Full Metal Sergeant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    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.

    2013StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Full Metal Sergeant

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Punch Punch!

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Full Metal Sergeant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    在节奏明快的夏日小镇中参与单词挑战!输入单词、连续出拳,把敌人痛快击飞!与小镇居民轻松互动,通过基于记忆曲线的复习机制,让背单词更有趣,也记得更加牢固。

    2026IndieRPGCasualSteam ↗
  2. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Full Metal Sergeant cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. XCOM® 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Reviewers of Full Metal Sergeant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Full Metal Sergeant.

    XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Full Metal Sergeant at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Full Metal Sergeant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    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 ~50% under Full Metal Sergeant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    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. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Full Metal Sergeant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Full Metal Sergeant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Full Metal Sergeant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Full Metal Sergeant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Full Metal Sergeant.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Full Metal Sergeant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Full Metal Sergeant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    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 ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from CarloC

Other recommendable Steam games by CarloC, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Until the Last Plane

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Another title from CarloC, the studio behind Full Metal Sergeant. Shares Strategy and Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Until the Last Plane is an airfield management game during WW2. Send pilots on mission. Craft spare parts. Repair your planes. Face your enemy and resist.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Final Boss

    WHY THIS

    Another title from CarloC, the studio behind Full Metal Sergeant. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Play as big boss of a final level. Heroes will come to kill you and you have to resist.

    2019ActionIndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Shape Cascade

    WHY THIS

    Another title from CarloC, the studio behind Full Metal Sergeant. Shares Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Falling shapes drop from above, can you push them into the right place? Test your skills and fast reflexes in Shape Cascade!

    2019IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Full Metal Sergeant 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares trait management and a retro mood with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Another title from CarloC, the studio behind Full Metal Sergeant. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Manage your camp, drill soldiers into specialized war machines and dominate turn-based battles. 12 Weeks. 9 Recruits. 1 Rule: break them or lose them.

    2026StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Last Card Dungeon

    WHY THIS

    Another title from CarloC, the studio behind Full Metal Sergeant. Shares Strategy and Indie with Full Metal Sergeant.

    Last Card Dungeon is a roguelite autobattler where your soul is trapped across a cursed deck. Explore a forsaken world. Collect powerful equipment. Tap and discard cards to battle enemies, survive events, and hunt the hooded figure who imprisoned your spirit...before your deck runs dry.

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Full Metal Sergeant

Does Full Metal Sergeant run on Steam Deck?
Full Metal Sergeant 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 Full Metal Sergeant cost?
Full Metal Sergeant is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Full Metal Sergeant?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Full Metal Sergeant are Until the Last Plane, Diplomacy is Not an Option, Northend Tower Defense.
Who developed Full Metal Sergeant?
Full Metal Sergeant was developed by CarloC.

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