Games like Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2
If Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sword of the Stars: The Pit, Skirmish Squad and Tenebris: Terra Incognita — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and stressful. 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 Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2: The Pit2 returns to the turn-based Roguelike roots of the indie classic and takes you to another alien facility filled with broken machines, warped creatures, and new surprises!

Players who liked Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 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.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Top pick for Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Skirmish Squad
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Choose your characters and establish your strategy! Strengthen your party with endless upgrades as you ascend the tower.
Tenebris: Terra Incognita
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath, turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Third-strongest match for Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
A turn-based tactical RPG in which you will explore a harsh planet teeming with terrifying monsters. Experiment with talent builds for 23 heroes. Combine abilities with equipment and other characters. Assemble a squad and learn the secrets of the planet Tenebris!
The Necromancer's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Ranked #4 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Raise an undead army to march against your enemies. Commune with the realm of the dead & struggle with your descent into madness. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion & seduction until ready to reveal yourself.
Bionic Dues
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Ranked #5 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
Kyvir: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Ranked #6 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Kyvir: Rebirth is a single player card game that combines elements of RPG, deck building, and roguelike gameplay. This game features an original dual deck mechanism, hundreds of distinctive items, skills, and cards for you to experiment with.
Element Space
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Ranked #7 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity. Face overwhelming odds with strategy. Make your choices and save us from extinction.
Dark Deity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Ranked #8 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Kerberos Productions
Other recommendable Steam games by Kerberos Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2. Shares Strategy with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
The Pit: Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Enter a legendary alien facility dug deep into the Feldspar Mountains... a massive Pit, built by the ancient Suul'ka. Enter The Pit again for the first time, in this unique Roguelike / FPS hybrid!
Hoards of Glory
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2. Shares Strategy with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Hoards of Glory is a dice placement game for 1-4 players. Players take on the role of a Viking captain forced to follow through on his grand boasts! Developed as an answer for how to playtest a tabletop during a pandemic, Hoards of Glory grew into a video game in its own right!
Planetary Control!
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2.
Invade strange worlds with alien armies! populate and shield your planets! Assassinate, Sabotage and Nuke your opponents! Collect victory points and achieve... PLANETARY CONTROL!
Frequently asked about Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2
- How much does Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 cost?
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 are Sword of the Stars: The Pit, Skirmish Squad, Tenebris: Terra Incognita.
- Who developed Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2?
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 was developed by Kerberos Productions.
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