Games like Mordheim: City of the Damned
If Mordheim: City of the Damned is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic), Blood Bowl 3 and Total War: WARHAMMER — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep warband customization, endless replayability and high stakes tactical decisions. 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 →Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical strategy game set in Games Workshop's Warhammer World, developed by Rogue Factor and released in 2015. The game uses d100-based combat mechanics with permanent injuries that can incapacitate warband members, campaign-progression featuring terror-and-fail-checks, route-testing elements, and extensive warband customization. Players describe it as brutal, challenging, dark, and grim, with deep warband customization and high-stakes tactical decisions where permanent injuries force adaptive play. Reviewers highlight the Warhammer grimdark atmosphere. The game runs Verified on Steam Deck, is priced at $19.99 USD, and holds a 71% positive rating from nearly 4700 Steam reviews.
About Mordheim: City of the Damned: Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
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Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)
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Top pick for Mordheim: City of the Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.
Blood Bowl 3
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Shares a dark mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Second-strongest match for Mordheim: City of the Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Brutal, crazy, tactical… this is BLOOD BOWL! The iconic death sport returns with the new video game of fantasy football faithfully using the latest board game rules and new content. Create your team, then crush, mulch and cheat your way to the top... leaving your opponents in the graveyard.
Total War: WARHAMMER
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Shares a grim mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Third-strongest match for Mordheim: City of the Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
The Last Spell
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Shares a challenging mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Ranked #4 for Mordheim: City of the Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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.
Warhammer Quest (Classic)
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Shares a challenging mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Ranked #5 for Mordheim: City of the Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Based on the classic tabletop game, Warhammer Quest is an addictive mix of role-playing and strategy.
Crown Wars: The Black Prince
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Shares a challenging mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Ranked #6 for Mordheim: City of the Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
The War of Crowns rages on. Knights and brigands run rampant throughout the land, sowing destruction. From your castle base, rise to become the lord who leads the battle against the forces of evil in this turn-based tactics and strategy game.
Total War: WARHAMMER II
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Ranked #7 for Mordheim: City of the Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
Crowntakers
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Shares a challenging mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Ranked #8 for Mordheim: City of the Damned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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.
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Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition
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Shares a brutal mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Reviewers of Mordheim: City of the Damned cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Legendary Edition features 20 playable races, including 11 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment.
Battle Brothers
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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.
Wildermyth
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Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
XCOM® 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Reviewers of Mordheim: City of the Damned cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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.
Blood Bowl 3
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Shares a dark mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Reviewers of Mordheim: City of the Damned cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Brutal, crazy, tactical… this is BLOOD BOWL! The iconic death sport returns with the new video game of fantasy football faithfully using the latest board game rules and new content. Create your team, then crush, mulch and cheat your way to the top... leaving your opponents in the graveyard.
Gloomhaven
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Shares a challenging mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Reviewers of Mordheim: City of the Damned cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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.
Wartales
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Shares a challenging mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
Reviewers of Mordheim: City of the Damned cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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!
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
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Shares a brutal mood with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
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Fallout: New Vegas
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Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Mordheim: City of the Damned on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Slay the Spire
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Priced ~69% under Mordheim: City of the Damned on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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Inscryption
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Cookie Clicker
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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.
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Mordheim: City of the Damned.
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Frequently asked about Mordheim: City of the Damned
- Is Mordheim: City of the Damned verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Mordheim: City of the Damned is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Mordheim: City of the Damned cost?
- Mordheim: City of the Damned is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Mordheim: City of the Damned have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Mordheim: City of the Damned supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Mordheim: City of the Damned?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mordheim: City of the Damned are Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic), Blood Bowl 3, Total War: WARHAMMER.
- Who developed Mordheim: City of the Damned?
- Mordheim: City of the Damned was developed by Rogue Factor and published by Nacon.
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