Games like Bloodgrounds
If Bloodgrounds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Arena Monarchy, Veilkeeper and Fragile Heroes — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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 Bloodgrounds: Bloodgrounds merges tactical turn-based combat with strategic management, RPG and roguelite elements. Forged in the pits of the arena, you fought your way out and now as a wealthy patron you recruit, train, and command your team of hardened Gladiators to glory - or death.
Players who liked Bloodgrounds also play
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Arena Monarchy
WHY THIS
Shares equipment upgrades, permadeath, grindy and a tense mood with Bloodgrounds.
Top pick for Bloodgrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Arena Monarchy is a gladiator management game with a heavy focus on turn-based combat. Collect loot, theorycraft builds, upgrade your ludus and become champion!
Veilkeeper
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Bloodgrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
A tactical RPG where your army shrinks the deeper you push. Lead fragile expeditions into unstable rifts, secure relay nodes to hold your connection, and build a shard that grows stronger with every return. Decide when to advance, when to retreat, and what you're willing to leave behind.
Fragile Heroes
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Bloodgrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Recruit, train, and lead ragged squads of volunteers into battle against the forces of undeath. Each run you’ll have access to a different set of heroes and classes to combine. Can you save your village and break the cycle?
Mystical Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Bloodgrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Mystical Tactics is a turn-based tactical-RPG roguelike in which you control a squad of adventurers in a mystical world. Train your heroes in fast-paced tactical battles, equip them with powerful items and lead them to repel the Dark Lord and his legions.
Zodiac Legion
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Bloodgrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Zodiac Legion is a turn-based tactical RPG where you take command of an arcane chivalric order. Expand your potential in a world of reawakening magic. Develop your stronghold, research astral powers, and lead your champions in combat against forces and beasts from beyond myth and memory.
Sons of the Arena: Pollice Verso
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Bloodgrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Train gladiators. Manage your ludus. Send them to the sand to fight, win, and bleed. Turn-based hex tactics where stamina, formations, and four classes — Swordsman, Spearman, Archer, Mace Fighter — decide every match. Permadeath makes every loss final.
Sarmatian Heroes
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Bloodgrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Sarmatian Heroes is a turn-based strategy RPG where you explore the world, develop heroes, command armies, build fortified cities, and fight tactical battles on hex-based battlefields in an alternate-history setting.
Kill the Thing
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Bloodgrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Kill The Thing is a challenging roguelike turn-based tactical RPG. Keep the corruption under control while searching for its origin. Undertake missions across four distinct regions, targeting key resources, upgrading your base, and building your roster of heroes. For the final confrontation.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Bloodgrounds
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X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares base management, permadeath and an atmospheric mood with Bloodgrounds.
Reviewers of Bloodgrounds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Bloodgrounds.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a tense mood with Bloodgrounds.
Reviewers of Bloodgrounds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Our Adventurer Guild
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Bloodgrounds.
Reviewers of Bloodgrounds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Become the new Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild and lead your adventurers in explorations and turnbased tactical battles. Will the Guild thrive under your leadership? Or will it finally disband under it?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bloodgrounds at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Bloodgrounds on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bloodgrounds on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bloodgrounds on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bloodgrounds on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Bloodgrounds on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Bloodgrounds on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
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 and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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More from Exordium Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Exordium Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Bear With Me - Episode One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloodgrounds.
Another title from Exordium Games, the studio behind Bloodgrounds. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Bear With Me is an episodic noir adventure game. Amber is trying to find her missing brother while being aided by her trusty teddy, Ted E. Bear.
Zero Reflex : Black Eye Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Bloodgrounds.
Another title from Exordium Games, the studio behind Bloodgrounds. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Circles, bullets, shurikens, rockets, saws and time ... they're all after you! Zero Reflex will tests both your dexterity and your nerves in a fast-paced punishing environment that keeps pushing your limits. You have no save points and no excuses! Be faster than a blink of the Eye!
Agenda
WHY THIS
Another title from Exordium Games, the studio behind Bloodgrounds. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Agenda is a strategy simulation game in which you control a world-wide independent agency with a set goal of world domination. Try to claim your global influence through the power of your allies and covert operations such as assassinations, bribery or fraud.
Last Encounter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloodgrounds.
Another title from Exordium Games, the studio behind Bloodgrounds. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Last Encounter is a twin-stick action roguelite in deep space following a group of heroes trying to prevent the unavoidable by cloning their ships and designing their weapons with swappable components.
Bear With Me - Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloodgrounds.
Another title from Exordium Games, the studio behind Bloodgrounds. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
The Bear With Me - Collector's Edition contains all three episodes, telling the whole story of Amber and Ted. It also includes the original soundtrack, a digital art book and full puzzle and script design documents.
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloodgrounds.
Another title from Exordium Games, the studio behind Bloodgrounds. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots is an all new prequel chapter featuring Amber’s brother Flint and the callous detective Ted E. Bear. Take to the gritty and bustling undergrounds of Paper City, discovering new characters and rich lore leading up to the events of the first 3 episodes of Bear With Me.
Frequently asked about Bloodgrounds
- Does Bloodgrounds run on Steam Deck?
- Bloodgrounds 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 Bloodgrounds cost?
- Bloodgrounds is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bloodgrounds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bloodgrounds are Arena Monarchy, Veilkeeper, Fragile Heroes.
- Who developed Bloodgrounds?
- Bloodgrounds was developed by Exordium Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
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