Games like Emplacement
If Emplacement is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crawl Tactics, Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector and Skulls of the Shogun — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Emplacement: Emplacement combines the elements of turn-based strategy and builder games. You must place tiles to construct farms and barracks, use them to produce resources and units. Connect tiles and rotate them around to create different layouts and strategies. Your ultimate goal, kill your opponents king!
Players who liked Emplacement also play
Steam players who put hours into Emplacement 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.
Crawl Tactics
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Top pick for Emplacement fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Emplacement fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emplacement.
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.
Skulls of the Shogun
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Emplacement fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
Enter the Samurai Afterlife and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal monks, and mustachioed samurai generals. It's fast-paced turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars, and supercharged with fighting-game flare!
Wargroove
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Ranked #4 for Emplacement fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Emplacement fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emplacement.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
Exorder
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Ranked #6 for Emplacement fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
A fantasy turn-based strategy game, fight for Cerulean and claim the crown as her rightful heir! Enjoy hours of our single-player campaign and battle your friends with cross-platform multiplayer. Expand your skills as a commander with the challenge mode.
Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)
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Ranked #7 for Emplacement fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emplacement.
Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.
The Battle of Polytopia
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Ranked #8 for Emplacement fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Emplacement at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Emplacement on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Emplacement.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Emplacement on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Emplacement.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Emplacement on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Emplacement.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Emplacement on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Emplacement.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Emplacement on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Emplacement.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under Emplacement on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Emplacement.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Emplacement on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Emplacement on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Emplacement.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Emplacement.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Emplacement.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Emplacement.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Emplacement.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
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!
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Emplacement.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Crawl Tactics
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Emplacement.
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.
Skulls of the Shogun
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
Enter the Samurai Afterlife and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal monks, and mustachioed samurai generals. It's fast-paced turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars, and supercharged with fighting-game flare!
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Emplacement.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
The Battle of Polytopia
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emplacement.
Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.
Frequently asked about Emplacement
- How much does Emplacement cost?
- Emplacement is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Emplacement have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Emplacement supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Emplacement?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Emplacement are Crawl Tactics, Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector, Skulls of the Shogun.
- Who developed Emplacement?
- Emplacement was developed by Glaikun and published by Glaikun Studio.
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