Games like ICBM: Escalation
If ICBM: Escalation is your kind of game, the closest matches are ICBM, WARNO and The Last General — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, grim 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 ICBM: Escalation: ICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS where you command armies, develop cutting-edge tech, and wield devastating weapons. Conquer enemies with conventional forces or nuclear firepower. With new modes like Standoff and Conquest, the game offers deep strategic layers in a global warfare setting.
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Steam players who put hours into ICBM: Escalation also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
ICBM
WHY THIS
Shares research tree and a stressful mood with ICBM: Escalation.
Top pick for ICBM: Escalation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
WARNO
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with ICBM: Escalation.
Second-strongest match for ICBM: Escalation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.
The Last General
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Third-strongest match for ICBM: Escalation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Lead thousands of units in this large scale modern war RTS as you manage economy and logistics, build your war machine, and fight across millions of procedurally generated scenarios, or jump into the battlefield controlling any unit in first or third person at any time.
First Strike
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Ranked #4 for ICBM: Escalation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Line War
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with ICBM: Escalation.
Ranked #5 for ICBM: Escalation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
A new type of RTS with elements from 4X, Wargame, and Real-Time Tactics. Draw commands and execute a superior strategy to defeat your opponent, focusing on high-level decisions rather than constant micromanagement.
Cavalry Charge·Three Kingdoms
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Ranked #6 for ICBM: Escalation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Three Kingdoms Cavalry Charge is a game that combines the historical theme of the Three Kingdoms with strategic elements. The game features a connected large-scale map design, supporting national wars with up to ten thousand players on the same map.
Broken Arrow
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Ranked #7 for ICBM: Escalation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
DEFCON
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with ICBM: Escalation.
Ranked #8 for ICBM: Escalation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
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Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under ICBM: Escalation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Balatro
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Priced ~60% under ICBM: Escalation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~50% under ICBM: Escalation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~75% under ICBM: Escalation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~79% under ICBM: Escalation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~73% under ICBM: Escalation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~83% under ICBM: Escalation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~67% under ICBM: Escalation on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
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!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Counter-Strike 2
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For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with ICBM: Escalation.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
THE FINALS
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!
Path of Exile
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Frequently asked about ICBM: Escalation
- Does ICBM: Escalation work on Steam Deck?
- ICBM: Escalation is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does ICBM: Escalation cost?
- ICBM: Escalation is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ICBM: Escalation have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ICBM: Escalation supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to ICBM: Escalation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ICBM: Escalation are ICBM, WARNO, The Last General.
- Who developed ICBM: Escalation?
- ICBM: Escalation was developed by SoftWarWare and published by Slitherine Ltd..
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