Games like Battle Train
If Battle Train is your kind of game, the closest matches are OPERATIVES: Revolve, Archon Soul and The Royal Writ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its explosive train battles, humorous writing and characters and funny. 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 Battle Train: Battle Train is a run-based roguelite deck-n-track builder set in the world’s most explosive game show. Choose your cards, upgrade your train, lay down tracks, and use destructive locomotives to blast your rival Champions off the rails in a chaotic mashup of deck-building and tactical rail combat.
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OPERATIVES: Revolve
WHY THIS
Top pick for Battle Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Battle Train.
A roguelike deckbuilder with cards you can almost touch. Every card is both cover and weapon, discarded the moment it is used. In your hand, they block bullets, blades and death itself. Discover a unique deckbuilder built on deep, interacting mechanics.
Archon Soul
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Battle Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Battle Train.
Archon Soul is a 2D roguelike dice-builder where you create powerful dice using swappable faces, runes, and bodies with unique effects. Draft spells, craft powerful synergies, defeat challenging enemies, and conquer the Archon's palace.
The Royal Writ
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Third-strongest match for Battle Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Battle Train.
Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy. Each fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom's legend. Command wisely... some sacrifices are necessary.
Black Jacket
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Battle Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
RogueJack21
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Battle Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
RogueJack21 is a Blackjack-inspired deckbuilder where you build and upgrade your deck to battle your opponents. Navigate through procedurally generated casinos and take revenge on The House, the ruthless mafia ruling Noir City that stole everything from you.
Apokerlypse
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Ranked #6 for Battle Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Battle Train.
A card-strategy roguelike inspired by a variety of poker games. You play as a highly skilled card shark in the Tavern at the End of the World, combining all kinds of demon chips to rewrite the rules of play, compete with players from across the globe, and ultimately rise to the top.
Clutchtime™: Basketball Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Battle Train.
Ranked #7 for Battle Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
Build your perfect deck and become a Champion.
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Ranked #8 for Battle Train fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Battle Train cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
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!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Battle Train cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Battle Train.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Reviewers of Battle Train cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Battle Train.
Reviewers of Battle Train cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
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...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Battle Train at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Battle Train on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
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 Battle Train on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Battle Train on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
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 Battle Train on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Battle Train.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Battle Train on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
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
Shares a whimsical mood with Battle Train.
Priced ~47% under Battle Train on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
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 Battle Train on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Battle Train on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
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.
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More from Terrible Posture Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Terrible Posture Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
MOTHERGUNSHIP
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Another title from Terrible Posture Games, the studio behind Battle Train. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
MOTHERGUNSHIP is a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses, and defeat a robotic alien armada that conquered Earth. Face off against overwhelming odds in brutal, non-stop combats where thinking on your feet is the only way to survive.
Invincible Presents: Atom Eve
WHY THIS
Another title from Terrible Posture Games, the studio behind Battle Train.
Become Atom Eve and take control of your own path as one of the most powerful superheroes in the Invincible universe! Unravel a mystery and balance the dangers and responsibilities of being a superhero with the relatable challenges of everyday life.
Tower of Guns
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Another title from Terrible Posture Games, the studio behind Battle Train. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
MOTHERGUNSHIP: FORGE
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Another title from Terrible Posture Games, the studio behind Battle Train. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
Craft. Shoot. Die. Repeat. Forge absurdly powerful guns and fight through the belly of a metal alien monstrosity in this VR FPS roguelite follow up to MOTHERGUNSHIP. Wanna build a rocket-firing-shotgun or a toxic spike-ball-launcher? Unleash your inner mad scientist, then take on the MOTHERGUNSHIP.
Burgle Supply Company
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Another title from Terrible Posture Games, the studio behind Battle Train. Shares Indie with Battle Train.
A co-op horror comedy game for you and your friends about burglarizing a nightmarish neighborhood full of mutated pets. No one said this would be easy, but maybe you can make it out of there with a sweet wood paneled video cassette recorder.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Royal Writ
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Battle Train.
Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy. Each fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom's legend. Command wisely... some sacrifices are necessary.
Clutchtime™: Basketball Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Battle Train.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
Build your perfect deck and become a Champion.
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Battle Train.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battle Train.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Frequently asked about Battle Train
- Is Battle Train verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Battle Train is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Battle Train cost?
- Battle Train is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Battle Train?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Battle Train are OPERATIVES: Revolve, Archon Soul, The Royal Writ.
- Who developed Battle Train?
- Battle Train was developed by Terrible Posture Games, Nerd Ninjas and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc..
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