Games like Shadowrun Returns
If Shadowrun Returns is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut, Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition and Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — 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 →Shadowrun Returns is an isometric turn-based tactical RPG developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Paradox Interactive, released in 2013 at a price of $3.74 USD. Set in a cyberpunk-fantasy world created nearly 25 years before its revival, the game tasks players with assembling a squad of runners to navigate a dystopian urban environment through tactical combat encounters. The campaign offers a relatively short experience, providing several hours of gameplay on normal difficulty as a solo-only adventure. Mod support is included, enabling the community to create and share additional content. According to Steam reviews, the game holds an 89% positive rating from over 6,700 players. Shadowrun Returns runs at a playable frame rate on Steam Deck.
About Shadowrun Returns: The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.
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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
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Top pick for Shadowrun Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shadowrun Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
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Third-strongest match for Shadowrun Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Torment: Tides of Numenera
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Ranked #4 for Shadowrun Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown
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Ranked #5 for Shadowrun Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Lead your team of Runners to survive a corrupt megacorporation’s intrigue threatening thousands of lives in this new action-strategy game set in the most popular cyberpunk universe of all times – Shadowrun.
Fallen: A2P Protocol
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Ranked #6 for Shadowrun Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.
The Banner Saga
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Ranked #7 for Shadowrun Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Lords of Xulima
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Ranked #8 for Shadowrun Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Shadowrun Returns.
Lords of Xulima is a challenging Role-playing game set on the mythical continent of Xulima, where Gods and humans once walked side by side. Experience a genuine RPG featuring over 100 hours of gameplay, and discover one of the most epic sagas ever told.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Shadowrun Returns
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Pillars of Eternity
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Reviewers of Shadowrun Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Shadowrun Returns.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
UnderRail
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Reviewers of Shadowrun Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadowrun Returns.
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
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Reviewers of Shadowrun Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Invisible, Inc.
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Reviewers of Shadowrun Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
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Reviewers of Shadowrun Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shadowrun Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Reviewers of Shadowrun Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt
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Reviewers of Shadowrun Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Bloodhunt is a thrilling free-to-play battle royale game set in Prague consumed by a ruthless war between vampire factions. Use your supernatural powers, weapons, and wit to hunt your rivals and dominate the night!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadowrun Returns at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~74% under Shadowrun Returns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
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 ~47% under Shadowrun Returns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
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 ~60% under Shadowrun Returns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
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 ~74% under Shadowrun Returns on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~74% under Shadowrun Returns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
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 ~47% under Shadowrun Returns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
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?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Shadowrun Returns on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Shadowrun Returns.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~47% under Shadowrun Returns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Harebrained Schemes
Other recommendable Steam games by Harebrained Schemes, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
BATTLETECH
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Another title from Harebrained Schemes, the studio behind Shadowrun Returns. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Another title from Harebrained Schemes, the studio behind Shadowrun Returns. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION
WHY THIS
Another title from Harebrained Schemes, the studio behind Shadowrun Returns. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is a major update featuring a new playable adventurer (The Brute), a completely new outdoor environment (The Black Forest), and lots of new enemies, weapons, armor, traps, potions, scrolls, and other big improvements to the game.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Harebrained Schemes, the studio behind Shadowrun Returns. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadowrun Returns.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!
The Lamplighters League
WHY THIS
Another title from Harebrained Schemes, the studio behind Shadowrun Returns. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Shadowrun Returns.
Recruit a team of misfits with unique abilities and unforgettable personalities, and chase the Banished Court to the ends of the earth in a mix of real-time infiltration, turn-based tactical combat, and a character-driven story of adventure and intrigue.
Frequently asked about Shadowrun Returns
- Does Shadowrun Returns run on Steam Deck?
- Shadowrun Returns 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 Shadowrun Returns cost?
- Shadowrun Returns is listed on Steam at 3.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shadowrun Returns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadowrun Returns are Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut, Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition, Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
- Who developed Shadowrun Returns?
- Shadowrun Returns was developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Paradox Interactive.
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