Games like Hammerheart
If Hammerheart is your kind of game, the closest matches are Raiders of Valhalla, Escape The Mad Empire and Those Who Rule — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its every death feels earned, formation positioning decides battles and historical accuracy feels authentic. 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 Hammerheart: Free demo now available! Punishing, strategic and with a heavy focus on authenticity, Hammerheart is a hardcore roguelike set in the viking age that combines directional medieval combat with party customization and strategy mechanics.
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Raiders of Valhalla
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Top pick for Hammerheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hammerheart.
Lead a fearless horde of Viking dwarves, strengthen them with legendary equipment, conquer unknown lands, and witness the colossal destruction they leave behind. How far will you be able to take your warriors? The journey to glory begins now!
Escape The Mad Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hammerheart.
Second-strongest match for Hammerheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
Escape the Mad Empire is a party-based, rogue-like dungeon crawler with intense and deeply tactical combat. Overcome the challenges as a band of heroes, and preserve their lives and sanity by managing resources and growing your base. Can you Escape the Mad Empire?
Those Who Rule
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hammerheart.
Third-strongest match for Hammerheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
Join three fresh recruits caught in a web of betrayal as war looms over the land. Lead your band of heroes through tactical turn-based battles, master unique abilities, and forge powerful gear to turn the tide of battle. Will you unravel the conspiracy driving the conflict—or be consumed by it?
Defend the Rook
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hammerheart.
Ranked #4 for Hammerheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!
WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Hammerheart.
Ranked #5 for Hammerheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Hammerheart.
WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes is a challenging turn-based tactical RPG set in an occupied capital during WWII. Pick your heroes. Navigate historic streets. Confront occupiers. And try to survive the 63 days of hell in this historically accurate portrayal of Poles fighting for their city.
Rogue Fable IV
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Shares a tense mood with Hammerheart.
Ranked #6 for Hammerheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.
NecroAttack！
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Hammerheart.
Ranked #7 for Hammerheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
Armies of zombies are coming! The Edgar Kingdom is teetering on the brink of collapse! Young Edgar Princess stands out and leads her subjects to defeat enemies. Follow the story of the princess to explore uncharted land, and might unravel the mysteries behind such disaster?
The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hammerheart.
Ranked #8 for Hammerheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hammerheart.
The Storm Guard is a challenging turn-based roguelike role-playing game inspired by the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones. You assume the role of the Lord Commander of the Storm Guard leading the order during difficult times. An ancient dragon and its minions have returned, threatening the realm of men.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Hammerheart
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Mount & Blade
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hammerheart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Hammerheart.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hammerheart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerheart.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Hammerheart.
Reviewers of Hammerheart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerheart.
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Battle Brothers
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Hammerheart.
Reviewers of Hammerheart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hammerheart.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
NORTH
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hammerheart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Hammerheart.
Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hammerheart at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Hammerheart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hammerheart.
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 ~55% under Hammerheart on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerheart.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Hammerheart on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hammerheart.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Hammerheart on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Hammerheart on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
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 ~55% under Hammerheart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hammerheart.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~91% under Hammerheart on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hammerheart.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Hammerheart on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hammerheart.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Hammerheart.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerheart.
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!
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Hammerheart.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Warframe
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Hammerheart.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Hammerheart.
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.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hammerheart.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
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Frequently asked about Hammerheart
- How much does Hammerheart cost?
- Hammerheart is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hammerheart?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hammerheart are Raiders of Valhalla, Escape The Mad Empire, Those Who Rule.
- Who developed Hammerheart?
- Hammerheart was developed by Hammerheart.
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