Games like Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
If Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hard West, The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos and Blackguards — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its sanity system adds depth, atmospheric and mysterious. 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 Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land: Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a turn-based strategy/role-playing game based on the award winning Call of Cthulhu RPG. Set in the midst of World War One, the game pits your team of investigators and soldiers against an ancient enemy, one older than humanity itself...
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Hard West
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Top pick for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Second-strongest match for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Step into the wacky heroic fantasy universe of the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. Lead a team of unlikely and clumsy heroes in an epic and challenging tactical RPG. Live an adventure filled with humor, surprises and silly encounters.
Blackguards
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Third-strongest match for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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.
Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch - Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #4 for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch is a turn-based strategy game, set on the edge of Imperial space, where your Space Marines will take on the Tyranids in a series of tactical engagements.
Stirring Abyss
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Shares sanity system and an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Ranked #5 for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
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Ranked #6 for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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.
WAKFU
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Ranked #7 for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Immerse yourself in the WAKFU universe with this free to play MMORPG. Select your class, travel the world, meet adventurers to challenge powerful monsters in epic turn-based battles.Participate in the kingdom’s economy and politics and create your own legend!
Blackguards 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Ranked #8 for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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!
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Silent Storm Gold Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Silent Storm from leading Russian developer Nival is a true 3D tactical turn-based Role-Playing-Game set against the backdrop of WWII. As the conflict rages on the frontlines, you’ll be leading a small multinational squad behind enemy lines to gather information and wreak havoc on your enemies while trying to thwart a mysterious new...
UFO ENEMY KNOWN
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Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Help aliens invade Earth in this procedurally-generated, infinite, 3D shooter game. Fully destructible cityscapes and a wide variety of destruction-wreaking weapons. Visit (rampage and destroy) cities of future Earth and Mars block by block. Chaotic battle scenes as rubble and vehicles pile up.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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.
XCOM® 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Jagged Alliance 3
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Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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.
Shadowrun Returns
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Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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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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 Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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 Action and Adventure with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
- Is Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- What games are most similar to Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land are Hard West, The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos, Blackguards.
- Who developed Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land?
- Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land was developed by Red Wasp Design Ltd.
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