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Games like Broken Alliance

If Broken Alliance is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kuro Tactics, 蜀山幻剑录 Sword of Shushan and Growbots: Battle Academy — 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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About Broken Alliance: From the makers of Death & Taxes comes a turn-based adventure-strategy game, an indie love letter to pixel art, old-school adventure games, mythical creatures and fantasy storytelling. Choose your faction and harness the vast power of magic to save your dying world, shaping your personal storyline.

2025StrategyIndieAdventureRPGEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Placeholder Gameworks
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Steam players who put hours into Broken Alliance 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. Kuro Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Broken Alliance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Broken Alliance.

    Kuro Tactics is a unique Turn Based Strategy RPG with Grid Movement that was inspired by Game Boy Advance favorites. Strengthen your Heroes by Leveling, Weapons, Gear & Artifacts to defeat all types of nefarious enemies on your path to victory!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. 蜀山幻剑录 Sword of Shushan

    WHY THIS

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

    《Sword of Shushan》is a strategic war chess game based on the holy land of Shushan and the war between ancient demons. The player will play the role of Han Yunchuan, a disciple of Shushan, who will call on the friars of Wufeng and the elite of Taihao royal family to fight against the ancient demons.

    2020StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Growbots: Battle Academy

    WHY THIS

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

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. 西游记2021

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Broken Alliance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Broken Alliance.

    This game takes Sun Wukong, Tang monk, pig Bajie, sand monk and little white dragon as the protagonists. It tells the story of their journey to the west to learn scriptures, going through difficulties and dangers, subduing demons and subduing demons, and finally obtaining the Scriptures.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. 封神榜2022

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Broken Alliance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Broken Alliance.

    This game takes Nezha, Xiaolongnv, Yang Jian and Jiang Taigong as the protagonists. It tells the legendary story of the protagonists going to various places to adventure, and finally to Chaoge City to destroy the three demons and defeat King Zhou.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Broken Alliance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Broken Alliance.

    On your maiden voyage with the Heroes Guild, your ship was capsized by an enigmatic maelstrom, stranding your party on Respite Island. Navigate your way through pirates, ferocious beasts, and shady alchemists as you unravel its mysteries.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Arcadian Atlas

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Broken Alliance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Broken Alliance.

    Arcadian Atlas is a Tactical RPG about the choices people make for love and power, and how those decisions tear a kingdom apart.

    2023StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. SpellForce: Conquest of Eo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Broken Alliance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Broken Alliance.

    On a journey to great magical might, explore and control the lands of Eo in this ever-changing turn-based strategy role-playing game. Field armies and heroes in tactical combat, finish hundreds of quests, and gather spells and artefacts to become the most powerful mage of all. 

    2023StrategyRPG7.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Broken Alliance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Broken Alliance.

    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 Broken Alliance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Broken Alliance.

    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 Broken Alliance on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Broken Alliance.

    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 Broken Alliance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Broken Alliance.

    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. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Broken Alliance on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Alliance.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Broken Alliance on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Broken Alliance.

    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 ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Broken Alliance on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Broken Alliance.

    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 ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Broken Alliance on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Broken Alliance.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Broken Alliance.

    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 ↗
  2. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Broken Alliance.

    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 ↗
  3. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Broken Alliance.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Broken Alliance.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Broken Alliance.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Broken Alliance.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 Broken Alliance.

    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.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

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

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Broken Alliance

Does Broken Alliance run on Steam Deck?
Broken Alliance 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 Broken Alliance cost?
Broken Alliance is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Broken Alliance?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Broken Alliance are Kuro Tactics, 蜀山幻剑录 Sword of Shushan, Growbots: Battle Academy.
Who developed Broken Alliance?
Broken Alliance was developed by Placeholder Gameworks and published by Placeholder Gameworks, Hawthorn 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 Broken Alliance.

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