Games like Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
If Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is your kind of game, the closest matches are Savage Turret, Broken Arrow and Combat Mission Shock Force 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its realistic combat mechanics, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is a challenging strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic alternate history where humanity fights against machines. Developed and published by Slitherine Ltd., it launched in 2024 with a price point of 39.99 USD. The game offers massive gameplay sessions with custom difficulty settings, where each decision meaningfully impacts outcomes. Players engage in realistic combat scenarios requiring strategic tactical positioning. Reviewers describe the experience as immersive, with combat mechanics that demand careful planning. The title is playable on Steam Deck and has received an 81% positive rating from 1867 Steam reviews, indicating strong player reception.
About Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance: Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is not just a game; it's an adrenaline-fueled journey where your strategic prowess decides the fate of mankind against the machines. After the machines took over, the greatest threats may not come from the machines but rather from other human survivors.
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Savage Turret
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Top pick for Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
A short adventure into a world of alternative render pipelines & custom shaders. Expect driving, flying, shooting, and tower defence.
Broken Arrow
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Second-strongest match for Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
Combat Mission Shock Force 2
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Shares an immersive mood with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Third-strongest match for Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
The latest title in the famous Combat Mission franchise of wargames, now on Steam. Shock Force 2 brings you to a hypothetical conflict in Syria between the forces of NATO and the Syrian Army. Play either on WeGo or Real Time in an incredibly detailed and realistic 1:1 tactical simulation.
Söldner: Secret Wars Remastered
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Ranked #4 for Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Söldner! Enjoy third-person combat, make use of a fully destructible environment. Customize your character and start combat on the huge worldmap (6500*3500 km), selecting your gear from over 100 firearms. Get into battle the way you want by employing over 120 vehicles. Take your tour now!
Wargame: Red Dragon
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Shares tactical positioning matters and a challenging mood with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Ranked #5 for Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Wargame: European Escalation
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Ranked #6 for Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
Retro Commander
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Ranked #7 for Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
ICBM
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Ranked #8 for Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
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Syrian Warfare
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Real Time Strategy with a high degree of realism. The game is based on a true story.
Singularity™
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FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...
Stellaris
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Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
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A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber - all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.
Rebellion
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Rebellion is a souls like and roguelite action game about your revenge saga. Unfairly imprisoned, you seek to cross swords with the King again, for the last time! Escape the jail, explore the castle and it's different areas and layouts, find and recruit allies, choose to fight or sneak from enemies.
Men of War II
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Experience warfare like never before! Men of War II, the anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed RTS franchise is here with all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and Western Fronts of WWII.
Starship Troopers: Extermination
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Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 16-player co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off frontlines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper to take back planets from the Arachnid threat!
RimWorld
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A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
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From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Balatro
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The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
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Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~63% under Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~84% under Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
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
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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...
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A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
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Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
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Shares an immersive mood with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Another title from Slitherine Ltd., the studio behind Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game set in the grimdark universe of the 41st Millennium. Pick your force, develop your army, field mighty heroes and fight for victory using superior strategy, awesome abilities, and devastating weaponry.
Battle Academy
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Another title from Slitherine Ltd., the studio behind Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
A turn-based strategy game like no other has landed on Steam. Approachable, absorbing and visually impressive yet detailed, Battle Academy aims to revolutionise the strategy games market with a blend of intuitive design and compelling gameplay.
Scramble: Battle of Britain
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Another title from Slitherine Ltd., the studio behind Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Scramble: Battle of Britain is a tactical dogfighting game set in 1940, featuring intense aerial battles in a 3D airspace. Take control of a squadron of fighters, planning maneuvers, witnessing real-time simulations, and analyzing battle damage with detailed camera tools.
Stargate: Timekeepers
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Another title from Slitherine Ltd., the studio behind Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Stargate: Timekeepers is a real-time tactics game where you lead a team of specialists through a story-driven campaign set in the SG-1 universe. Sneak your characters behind enemy lines, use their unique skills, craft the perfect plan to unravel a timeloop mystery, and defeat the Goa’uld threat.
Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front
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Another title from Slitherine Ltd., the studio behind Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Sequel to its successful predecessor, Battle Academy 2 moves the action east – to the bloodied plains of Mother Russia. When a gritty new look, great new features, and random mission generation meet battle-proven gameplay you can be sure of a turn-based strategy classic!
Legion Gold
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Another title from Slitherine Ltd., the studio behind Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Well-received by gamers and critics alike, Legion Gold is the expanded and improved version of its predecessor, Legion, and includes not only the original Legion game but a hefty expansion pack too.
Chariots of War
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Another title from Slitherine Ltd., the studio behind Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Chariots of War is an operational real-time game where you can play one of 58 different nations on a huge historically accurate and beautiful map covering the entire Middle East! Build up your cities and keep their inhabitants happy.
Ancient Arenas: Chariots
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Another title from Slitherine Ltd., the studio behind Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Dangerous, grueling, fierce. Chariot Racing was by far the most favored sport of ancient times. Ancient Arenas takes you back to an age where charioteers were the richest sports stars and team owners were their ruthless and fearless managers.
Frequently asked about Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
- Does Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance run on Steam Deck?
- Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance 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 Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance cost?
- Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance are Savage Turret, Broken Arrow, Combat Mission Shock Force 2.
- Who developed Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance?
- Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance was developed by Slitherine Ltd..
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