Games like Original War
If Original War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battles of Chaos, Lord Wars and The Red Solstice — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its moddable and community supported, tactical decisions matter deeply 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.
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Players who liked Original War also play
Steam players who put hours into Original War 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.
Battles of Chaos
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Top pick for Original War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Original War.
Battles of Chaos is a medieval fantasy real time strategy and tactics hybrid game, blending the best elements of the two genres. Play great, realistic open-field battles or sieges in single-player, cooperative or PvP mode, where the emphasis is on combat, with base building elements.
Lord Wars
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Original War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Original War.
No tedious fog of war. Outwit foes with terrain ambushes and shifting weather, build elite armies and wrap up intense medieval RTS matches quickly.
The Red Solstice
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Original War.
Third-strongest match for Original War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Original War.
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
Wargame: European Escalation
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Original War.
Ranked #4 for Original War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Original War.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
Supreme Commander
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Ranked #5 for Original War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Original War.
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
Airships: Conquer the Skies
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Original War.
Ranked #6 for Original War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Original War.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Scourge Of War - Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Original War.
Ranked #7 for Original War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Original War.
Welcome to Scourge of War, a real-time 3D computer game/simulation developed by NorbSoftDev, the company headed by renowned game designer Norb Timpko, designer of Mad Minute Games' acclaimed Take Command series. Scourge of War is the epitome of historical command simulations.
Iron Harvest
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Original War.
Ranked #8 for Original War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Original War.
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Original War at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Original War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Original War.
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 ~50% under Original War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Original War.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Original War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Original War.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Original War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Original War.
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 ~50% under Original War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Original War.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Original War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Original War.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Original War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Original War.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Original War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Original War.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Original War.
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 Original War.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Original War.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Original War.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Original War.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Original War
- Does Original War run on Steam Deck?
- Original War 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 Original War cost?
- Original War is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Original War have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Original War supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Original War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Original War are Battles of Chaos, Lord Wars, The Red Solstice.
- Who developed Original War?
- Original War was developed by Altar Games and published by Bohemia Interactive.
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 Original War.
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