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Games like Bionic Dues

If Bionic Dues is your kind of game, the closest matches are Into the Breach, Sectron and Mech Armada — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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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About Bionic Dues: Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.

2013StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDMetacritic 71Windows · macOS · Linuxby Arcen Games
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Steam players who put hours into Bionic Dues 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.

  1. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Bionic Dues.

    Top pick for Bionic Dues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sectron

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Bionic Dues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Sci-fi turn-based strategy on procedurally generated planetoids. Expand your base, deploy and upgrade units, negotiate alliances, and conquer each unique world. Simple rules, deep tactics. Easy to learn, hard to master.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Mech Armada

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Bionic Dues.

    Third-strongest match for Bionic Dues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

    2022StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Crowntakers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Ranked #4 for Bionic Dues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Dead Hand

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Ranked #5 for Bionic Dues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Dead Hand is a turn based tactical roguelike game set in a fully destructible procedural environment. Guide your Autonomous Weapons Platform in a fatalistic trek through a multiple level underground cave complex in order to fulfill your directives.

    2019StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Star Renegades

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Bionic Dues.

    Ranked #6 for Bionic Dues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Steam Marines

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Ranked #7 for Bionic Dues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Steam Marines is a squad based Roguelike set on a steampunk spaceship. It features tactical play focused on positioning and careful use of resources. Built to keep you on your toes as you progress through the decks of your besieged ship while clearing enemies and trying to reach each level's elevator.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Rogue Waters

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Ranked #8 for Bionic Dues fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.

    2024ActionStrategyAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Bionic Dues

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. X-COM: UFO Defense

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Reviewers of Bionic Dues cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Bionic Dues.

    You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

    2008Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Gratuitous Space Battles

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Bionic Dues.

    Reviewers of Bionic Dues cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

    2009StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Last Federation

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Reviewers of Bionic Dues cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Bionic Dues.

    Reviewers of Bionic Dues cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Total War: WARHAMMER II

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Bionic Dues cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Bionic Dues.

    Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.

    2017ActionStrategy59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Rusted Warfare - RTS

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Bionic Dues.

    Reviewers of Bionic Dues cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    {{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

    2017StrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. AI WAR

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Bionic Dues cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    The exciting shooting game, AI WAR, is a war game where players need go through a hail of bullets and blow up the master control base of the intelligent robots. This game is full of uncertainty, where players seem to be in a real war field and the unexpected may happen any time. Wish you good luck!

    2022ActionIndieSimulation5.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bionic Dues at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bionic Dues on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bionic Dues on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bionic Dues on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bionic Dues on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Bionic Dues on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bionic Dues on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Bionic Dues on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bionic Dues on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

More from Arcen Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Arcen Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Heart of the Machine

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Bionic Dues. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

    2026StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. AI War 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Bionic Dues.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Bionic Dues. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. AI War: Fleet Command

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Bionic Dues.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Bionic Dues. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    "You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...

    2009StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Last Federation

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Bionic Dues. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Starward Rogue

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Bionic Dues. Shares Indie and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.

    2016ActionIndieRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. A Valley Without Wind

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Bionic Dues. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.

    2012ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Skyward Collapse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Bionic Dues.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Bionic Dues. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. A Valley Without Wind 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bionic Dues.

    Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Bionic Dues. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Bionic Dues.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Mech Armada

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Bionic Dues.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

    2022StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Star Renegades

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Bionic Dues.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Bionic Dues

How much does Bionic Dues cost?
Bionic Dues is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Bionic Dues?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bionic Dues are Into the Breach, Sectron, Mech Armada.
Who developed Bionic Dues?
Bionic Dues was developed by Arcen Games.

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 Bionic Dues.

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