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Games like Bellfortis

Below are 21 hand-picked alternatives to Bellfortis for fans of strategy, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Bellfortis also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, more from Rake in Grass. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.

About Bellfortis: Bellfortis is a strategy game from the early Middle Ages. Expand your kingdom, use politics and power. Strategic planning on the map alternates with realtime battles of armies. Play as a grand strategy or on smaller local maps, build, recruit armies and fight!

2025StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Rake in Grass
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    Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition

    Top pick for Bellfortis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Bellfortis.

    Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release

    2010Strategy24.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Home Wars — Steam game cover

    Home Wars

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

    Do you hate bugs and arachnids? Seeing them creeps you out? Would you like them to disappear off the face of the Earth? GOOD! This is the right game for you! In HW you’ll play as a General of a toy soldiers army, with the sole purpose of saving the owner’s house from the invasion of those damn Bugs.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Ultimate General: Civil War — Steam game cover

    Ultimate General: Civil War

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

    Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical real time strategy war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history - the American Civil War of 1861-1865.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
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    King's Orders — Steam game cover

    King's Orders

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

    King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI — Steam game cover

    A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI

    Ranked #5 for Bellfortis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Bellfortis.

    Experience the dramatic conflict of samurai culture and modern weaponry between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan.

    2012Strategy29.99 USDSteam ↗
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    The Great War: Western Front™ — Steam game cover

    The Great War: Western Front™

    Ranked #6 for Bellfortis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Bellfortis.

    The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.

    2023Strategy34.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Diplomacy is Not an Option — Steam game cover

    Diplomacy is Not an Option

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

    Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence — Steam game cover

    NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence

    Ranked #8 for Bellfortis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Bellfortis.

    Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series.

    2015Strategy29.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Bellfortis

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    Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms — Steam game cover

    Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms

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

    Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms is the official expansion to last year's award-winning Medieval II: Total War, presenting players with all-new territories to explore, troops to command, and enemies to conquer.

    2007Strategy24.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Crusader Kings II — Steam game cover

    Crusader Kings II

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

    Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

    2012StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Lords of the Black Sun — Steam game cover

    Lords of the Black Sun

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

    Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.

    2014StrategyIndie2.49 USDSteam ↗
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    Lords of the Realm — Steam game cover

    Lords of the Realm

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

    The year is 1268 and the English throne lies empty. Fight for the right to be King in this classic blend of turn-based and real-time strategy.

    2015Strategy1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Medieval: Total War™ - Collection — Steam game cover

    Medieval: Total War™ - Collection

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

    MEDIEVAL: Total War™ - Collection Edition is the compilation of the critically-acclaimed Medieval: Total War and its official expansion pack - Viking Invasion.

    2015ActionStrategy9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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Other recommendable Steam games by Rake in Grass, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

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    Rampage Knights — Steam game cover

    Rampage Knights

    Another title from Rake in Grass, the studio behind Bellfortis. Shares Indie with Bellfortis.

    Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Jets'n'Guns Gold — Steam game cover

    Jets'n'Guns Gold

    Another title from Rake in Grass, the studio behind Bellfortis. Shares Indie with Bellfortis.

    Jets'n'Guns is a heavy piece of ground shaking rock blasting action with graphics and special effects that will blow you eyes out! Enjoy yourself in almost-insane action adventure of saving the universe from the deadly threat of more than 270 unique monsters in the campaign of 43 levels.

    2014ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Jets'n'Guns 2 — Steam game cover

    Jets'n'Guns 2

    Another title from Rake in Grass, the studio behind Bellfortis. Shares Indie with Bellfortis.

    Jets'n'Guns 2 is a side-scrolling space shooter with insane levels of action and destruction. Travel the galaxies and unleash an arsenal of the deadliest weapons and devices to save the universe from its inevitable doom.

    2020ActionIndie15.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Northmark: Hour of the Wolf — Steam game cover

    Northmark: Hour of the Wolf

    Another title from Rake in Grass, the studio behind Bellfortis. Shares Indie with Bellfortis.

    Adventure across the lands of Northmark and save your homeland from the plot in this original card RPG.

    2014IndieAdventureRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Silent Sector — Steam game cover

    Silent Sector

    Another title from Rake in Grass, the studio behind Bellfortis. Shares Indie with Bellfortis.

    Oldschool action open-world sci-fi with a unique storyline, frenetic battles, crude humor, loose morals and cows.

    2021ActionIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Loot Hunter — Steam game cover

    Loot Hunter

    Another title from Rake in Grass, the studio behind Bellfortis. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bellfortis.

    Loot Hunter is a fun role-play game from the world full of old ships, pirates and adventures!

    2015StrategyIndieCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Archibald's Adventures — Steam game cover

    Archibald's Adventures

    Another title from Rake in Grass, the studio behind Bellfortis. Shares Indie with Bellfortis.

    A paranoid computer issued a lock down on a mad scientist's mansion after his experiments and security robots broke loose, and you are trapped inside! Overcome all the pitfalls of the mansion in this action puzzle game! Test your skills and wit in nearly 200 levels!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Diamond Joyce and the Secret of Crystal Cave — Steam game cover

    Diamond Joyce and the Secret of Crystal Cave

    Another title from Rake in Grass, the studio behind Bellfortis. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bellfortis.

    Diamond Joyce and the Secret of Crystal Cave is an action puzzle game with quest for long-lost treasures buried in pitch black caves, pyramids and temples of ancient civilizations.

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Bellfortis

Does Bellfortis run on Steam Deck?
Bellfortis 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 Bellfortis cost?
Bellfortis is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Bellfortis?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bellfortis are Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition, Home Wars, Ultimate General: Civil War.
Who developed Bellfortis?
Bellfortis was developed by Rake in Grass.

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