Games like Capes
If Capes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don't Kill Them All, Broilers and Epsilon Protocol — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Capes: Superheroes clash in this turn based strategy game. Recruit, train, and deploy your team in order to take back the city from the villains that hold it hostage.
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Steam players who put hours into Capes 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.
Don't Kill Them All
WHY THIS
Top pick for Capes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
Orcs don’t die: THEY RAGE! Embody their Warchief and lead them out of misery in this brutish strategy game with base-building, where one Orc outburst can turn victory into disaster. Forge bonds between units, shape their personalities, and unleash their true potential both in and out of battle.
Broilers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Capes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
Broilers is a turn-based game that resembles chess and similar board games, but only externally. The basis of almost all of the mechanics in Broilers, is selection (breeding). Learn how to breed new species and their characteristics in order to win the online challenge.
Epsilon Protocol
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Capes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
Epsilon Protocol is a sci-fi turn-based tactics game with a rich story and refreshing visual style. Set in a reality where the Epsilon controls everything after they discovered light-speed travel. Take control of a team of rebels pushing against Epsilon's forces.
Showgunners
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Capes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.
Happy Bastards
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Capes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
Virtue? That’s for suckers. But fame? Priceless. Assemble unruly bastards into a mercenary squad and build your legend through reckless adventuring, bloody fights, lucrative looting, and dirty dealings. Choose your battles, and your allies, in this irreverent open-world tactical RPG.
Puzzle Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Capes.
Ranked #6 for Capes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
Puzzle Tactics is a turn-based and grid-based tactics game played in various small levels. You play as the blue team with the goal of defeating the red team's units before losing your own. Later levels are more difficult and introduce more unit types in battle.
Telepath Tactics Liberated
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Capes.
Ranked #7 for Capes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
An SRPG fan's SRPG! Imagine Fire Emblem with destructible battlefields; the ability to place traps; the ability to shove enemies off cliffs, into lava, or into each other; and a built-in campaign creator.
Kriegsfront Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Capes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
Kriegsfront Tactics is a procedural turn-based mecha tactics RPG set in alternate 1970s during an era of conflict in Southeast Asia where you'll play as a commander of a mecha squad sent behind enemy lines. Build your mecha squad, complete missions, and survive the front another day.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Capes
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Marvel's Midnight Suns
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Capes.
Reviewers of Capes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Capes.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Capes.
Reviewers of Capes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Capes.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
Freedom Force
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Capes.
Reviewers of Capes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Capes.
From a distant corner of the galaxy, an evil alien race sets in motion a sinister plan to conquer the Earth. They unleash a powerful catalyst — Energy X — that imbues the planet's worst miscreants with super-powers to bring the planet to its knees. Now Earth's only hope lies with a new breed of heroes... The Freedom Force!
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Capes.
Reviewers of Capes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Capes.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Capes.
Reviewers of Capes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Showgunners
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Capes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Capes at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Capes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Capes.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Capes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Capes.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Capes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Capes.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Capes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Capes.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Capes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Capes.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Capes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Capes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Capes.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Capes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Capes.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Capes.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Capes.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
of the Devil
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Capes.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Capes.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
It gets so lonely here
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Capes.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
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Frequently asked about Capes
- Is Capes verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Capes 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 Capes cost?
- Capes is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Capes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Capes are Don't Kill Them All, Broilers, Epsilon Protocol.
- Who developed Capes?
- Capes was developed by Spitfire Interactive and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
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 Capes.
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