Games like Blackguards
If Blackguards is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blackguards 2, Eador. Masters of the Broken World and Blightstone — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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 →Blackguards is a turn-based tactical RPG released by Daedalic Entertainment in 2014. Set in a dark, mature world, the game features hex-based combat with environmental hazards that dynamically alter each encounter. Players manage action economy, track ammunition, and experiment with deep character builds while coordinating party synergy. Reviewers highlight the handcrafted arenas with varied objectives and note that characters feel like real people. The game emphasizes tactical positioning, where strategic placement fundamentally shapes combat outcomes. Pricing at $9.99 USD, it offers a long solo experience designed for hard difficulty. Steam reviews show 59% positive from 1271 players, and it runs as playable on Steam Deck.
About Blackguards: What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
Players who liked Blackguards also play
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Blackguards 2
WHY THIS
Shares positioning matters and an atmospheric mood with Blackguards.
Top pick for Blackguards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
Eador. Masters of the Broken World
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blackguards.
Second-strongest match for Blackguards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.
Blightstone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Blackguards.
Third-strongest match for Blackguards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
A challenging, turn-based strategy with a roguelike edge. Lead a team of adventurers to destroy the Blightstone and free the world from corruption. Use free movement, dynamic environments and collectable skills to save the crystal, and save the world.
Crown Wars: The Black Prince
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Blackguards.
Ranked #4 for Blackguards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Blackguards.
The War of Crowns rages on. Knights and brigands run rampant throughout the land, sowing destruction. From your castle base, rise to become the lord who leads the battle against the forces of evil in this turn-based tactics and strategy game.
Wintermoor Tactics Club
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Blackguards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
King's Bounty II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blackguards.
Ranked #6 for Blackguards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Blackguards.
Legend returns! King’s Bounty II is the long-awaited sequel to the legendary King’s Bounty video games franchise, one of the most iconic representatives of the turn-based RPG genre.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blackguards.
Ranked #7 for Blackguards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blackguards.
Ranked #8 for Blackguards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blackguards at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blackguards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackguards.
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 Blackguards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blackguards.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Blackguards on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blackguards.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blackguards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
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 Blackguards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackguards.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Blackguards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blackguards.
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 Blackguards on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blackguards.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Blackguards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blackguards.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blackguards.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Blackguards.
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 Action and Indie with Blackguards.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blackguards.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blackguards.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from Daedalic Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Daedalic Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Deponia
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Blackguards.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Blackguards. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Blackguards.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Blackguards. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
Deponia: The Complete Journey
WHY THIS
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Blackguards. Shares Adventure with Blackguards.
Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.
Deponia Doomsday
WHY THIS
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Blackguards. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
The Night of the Rabbit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Blackguards.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Blackguards. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Blackguards.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Blackguards. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
Chaos on Deponia
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blackguards.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Blackguards. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.
The Dark Eye: Memoria
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Blackguards.
Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Blackguards. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Wintermoor Tactics Club
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blackguards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blackguards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Frequently asked about Blackguards
- Does Blackguards run on Steam Deck?
- Blackguards 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 Blackguards cost?
- Blackguards is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blackguards?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blackguards are Blackguards 2, Eador. Masters of the Broken World, Blightstone.
- Who developed Blackguards?
- Blackguards was developed by Daedalic Entertainment.
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