Games like Steam Marines
If Steam Marines is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crowntakers, Crown Trick and Bionic Dues — 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 →About Steam Marines: 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.
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Crowntakers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Top pick for Steam Marines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Steam Marines.
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.
Crown Trick
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Second-strongest match for Steam Marines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Steam Marines.
Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!
Bionic Dues
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Third-strongest match for Steam Marines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Steam Marines.
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.
Invisible, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Ranked #4 for Steam Marines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Steam Marines.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Space Grunts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Ranked #5 for Steam Marines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Steam Marines.
A turn-based game on a planet outpost - with no waiting between turns! Play it at the speed of an arcade game, or take your time and think about your next step.. no matter how fast you take your turn, it might be your last!
Tharsis
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Steam Marines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Steam Marines.
Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Steam Marines.
Ranked #7 for Steam Marines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Steam Marines.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Ironcast
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Ranked #8 for Steam Marines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Steam Marines.
Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Reviewers of Steam Marines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Steam Marines.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Reviewers of Steam Marines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Steam Marines.
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.
Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Steam Marines.
Reviewers of Steam Marines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Steam Marines.
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Steam Marines at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Steam Marines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Steam Marines.
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 Steam Marines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Steam Marines.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Steam Marines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Steam Marines.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Steam Marines on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Steam Marines.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Steam Marines on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Steam Marines.
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 Steam Marines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Steam Marines.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Steam Marines.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Steam Marines.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Steam Marines.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Steam Marines.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Steam Marines.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Steam Marines
- Does Steam Marines run on Steam Deck?
- Steam Marines 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 Steam Marines cost?
- Steam Marines is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Steam Marines?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Steam Marines are Crowntakers, Crown Trick, Bionic Dues.
- Who developed Steam Marines?
- Steam Marines was developed by Worthless Bums.
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