Games like Plague Lords
If Plague Lords is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tattered Banners, Battle Brothers and Wartales — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Plague Lords: The investigation of multiple disappearances in the midst of the Black Death turns into a bloody stand against a new mysterious threat. Survive in a turn-based, tactical sandbox, managing a settlement and dozens of peasants, craftsmen and warriors to stop the upcoming Scourge.
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Tattered Banners
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Top pick for Plague Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plague Lords.
Lead a mercenary company in a turn-based tactics RPG set in a dynamic, simulated world shaped by your actions. Recruit, equip, and evolve your warband to survive a medieval-fantasy realm where cities rise and fall, noble houses pursue personal agendas, and the land bears the scars of your decisions.
Battle Brothers
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Second-strongest match for Plague Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plague Lords.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Wartales
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Third-strongest match for Plague Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Plague Lords.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Dead State: Reanimated
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Ranked #4 for Plague Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Plague Lords.
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Blackguards 2
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Ranked #5 for Plague Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Plague Lords.
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!
Gloomhaven
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Ranked #6 for Plague Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Plague Lords.
Lead your band of mercenaries in the land of Gloomhaven, work with unsavoury individuals, shape the fate of the region, fight your way through horrific places and get rich or die trying in this ruthless Tactical-RPG.
King's Bounty: The Legend
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Ranked #7 for Plague Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Plague Lords.
King’s Bounty: The Legend is a fan-favorite classic fantasy adventure and an early entry into the modern King’s Bounty era, built around tough battles, smart decisions, and turn-based tactics.
The Last Spell
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Ranked #8 for Plague Lords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Plague Lords.
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.
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NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Plague Lords.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Plague Lords.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Plague Lords.
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.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Plague Lords.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Plague Lords.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Plague Lords.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Frequently asked about Plague Lords
- What games are most similar to Plague Lords?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Plague Lords are Tattered Banners, Battle Brothers, Wartales.
- Who developed Plague Lords?
- Plague Lords was developed by Red Unit Studios and published by HypeTrain Digital.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Plague Lords.
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