Games like Airborne Ranger
If Airborne Ranger is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bomber Command, Crusade in Europe and Ultimate General: Gettysburg — picked from the ranked list below. 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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Bomber Command
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Top pick for Airborne Ranger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
Take command of what would become the greatest air armada in history! Build, plan, coordinate, and command your forces into a mighty aerial armada against a smart German economy that adapts to your attacks, researches tech, and smartly reacts to your moves. Take over the Bomber Command.
Crusade in Europe
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Second-strongest match for Airborne Ranger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
Crusade in Europe is a classic real-time simulation game from the 80s designed by Sid Meier and Ed Bever. The first title in the "Command Series" of tactical wargames from Microprose, the game features real-time battles that test your skills as a commander.
Ultimate General: Gettysburg
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Third-strongest match for Airborne Ranger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.
Leave No One Behind: Ia Drang
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Ranked #4 for Airborne Ranger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
Leave No One Behind is tactical real time strategy war game. Experience some of the hardest battles fought during the Vietnam War in 1965 between US Army and the Army of the Northern Vietnam for landing zones X-Ray and Albany and for Plei Me special forces camp.
Battle Cry of Freedom
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Ranked #5 for Airborne Ranger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.
Ultimate General: American Revolution
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Ranked #6 for Airborne Ranger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
American Revolution is a sandbox strategy game featuring the epic historical period during the rebellion of the American colonies against the British Empire.
Commandos: Origins
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Ranked #7 for Airborne Ranger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
ALARM! You have been selected for a mission which will shape the fate of the entire world. Witness the very beginning of the legendary elite WWII force in Commandos: Origins. The long-awaited sequel to the Commandos series brings you right back to the foundation of the real-time tactics genre.
Holdfast: Nations At War
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Ranked #8 for Airborne Ranger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Airborne Ranger at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Airborne Ranger on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
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
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Priced ~50% under Airborne Ranger on Steam right now. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
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
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Priced ~55% under Airborne Ranger on Steam right now. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Airborne Ranger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
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.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Airborne Ranger on Steam right now. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
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
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Priced ~50% under Airborne Ranger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Airborne Ranger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Airborne Ranger on Steam right now. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Meteor 60 Seconds!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
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.
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Microprose
Other recommendable Steam games by Microprose, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Darklands
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Another title from Microprose, the studio behind Airborne Ranger.
Deep in the twilight of the Black Forest, you and your companions crouch before the robber-knight's tower. Hans, the alchemist, places his mysterious potion by the door. Ebhard the friar implores Saint Dunstan to bless your weapons and armor. And you and Gretchen grip naked long swords, praying your plate mail won't squeak.
Tinhead
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Another title from Microprose, the studio behind Airborne Ranger. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
Leap, slide, hop, fly and shoot your way through wacky worlds and super-tricky challenging levels as you guide Tinhead to free the stars. Take on pesky spinning Krystals, relentless flying Saw-Sirs and hordes of mega-tough bosses.
Fields of Glory
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Another title from Microprose, the studio behind Airborne Ranger. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
Return to a true wargame based on Napoleon's Waterloo campaign! Become a General in control of huge armies in this classic, historic-themed RTS!
The Legacy: Realm of Terror
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Another title from Microprose, the studio behind Airborne Ranger. Shares Action with Airborne Ranger.
For the past 400 years, your evil ancestors have been planning this housewarming party just for you. And it's one party you may never leave! This horror classic blends elements of RPG and Adventure games in a one-of-a-kind, spine-tingling package.
MicroProse™ Soccer
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Another title from Microprose, the studio behind Airborne Ranger. Shares Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
MicroProse™ Soccer is an accessible and engaging classic soccer game that lets you compete against a friend or CPU opponent at world class level in the World Cup, International Challenge, or in the indoor league.
Decision in the Desert
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Another title from Microprose, the studio behind Airborne Ranger. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
Classic real-time simulation game from the 80s designed by Sid Meier and Ed Bever. The second title in the "Command Series" of tactical wargames from Microprose, the game features real-time battles that test your skills as a commander of forces in North Africa during WWII
Conflict in Vietnam
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Another title from Microprose, the studio behind Airborne Ranger. Shares Strategy with Airborne Ranger.
Classic real-time simulation game from the 80s designed by Sid Meier and Ed Bever. The third title in the "Command Series" of tactical wargames from Microprose, the game begins with the defeat of the French colonial army and ends with the Viet Cong victory over the South Vietnam forces in 1972.
F-15 Strike Eagle
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Another title from Microprose, the studio behind Airborne Ranger. Shares Simulation with Airborne Ranger.
Select a mission and you are immediately transported into the sophisticated cockpit of an F-15 fighter. Developed by the legendary Sid Meier, F-15 Strike Eagle has been described as a “mega hit” and a “blockbuster.” It was named Computer Gaming World’s “Action Game of the Year” in 1985.
Frequently asked about Airborne Ranger
- How much does Airborne Ranger cost?
- Airborne Ranger is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Airborne Ranger?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Airborne Ranger are Bomber Command, Crusade in Europe, Ultimate General: Gettysburg.
- Who developed Airborne Ranger?
- Airborne Ranger was developed by Microprose and published by Atari.
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