Games like Ashigaru Tactics
If Ashigaru Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Brothers, Lost Eidolons and The Iron Oath — 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 Ashigaru Tactics: Ashigaru Tactics is a turn-based hex tactical combat sandbox game, set in Sengoku-era Japan. Assemble a squad of mercenaries and fight, survive, and kill in a land ravaged by clan wars, bandit incursions, and whispers of Yokai emerging.

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Steam players who put hours into Ashigaru Tactics 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.
Battle Brothers
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Top pick for Ashigaru Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashigaru Tactics.
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.
Lost Eidolons
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Second-strongest match for Ashigaru Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
The Iron Oath
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Third-strongest match for Ashigaru Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
Command, endure, and prosper in The Iron Oath, a turn-based tactical RPG where the fate of your mercenary company rests on your decisions. Customize your roster, build your renown, and discover the secrets that await in the medieval fantasy realm of Caelum.
STRANGER SAGA -Stranger Bach and Iskiyeld's Ambition-
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Ranked #4 for Ashigaru Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashigaru Tactics.
"STRANGER SAGA" is a turn-based SRPG where you lead a resistance army against a mighty enemy force. Raise citizens into elite warriors and conquer challenging strategy battles!
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
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Ranked #5 for Ashigaru Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashigaru Tactics.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3
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Ranked #6 for Ashigaru Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashigaru Tactics.
The dramatic RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel series is now complete!
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
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Ranked #7 for Ashigaru Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashigaru Tactics.
Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
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Ranked #8 for Ashigaru Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
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 Ashigaru Tactics.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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!
Saihate Station
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Ashigaru Tactics.
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!
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More from Mr Crops
Other recommendable Steam games by Mr Crops, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Puzzle Cafe VR
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Another title from Mr Crops, the studio behind Ashigaru Tactics. Shares Simulation with Ashigaru Tactics.
Puzzle Cafe VR is a relaxing jigsaw puzzle game made for VR. Relax in a nice cafe and solve some jigsaw puzzles, complete challenges and upgrade the cafe scenery.
Dragonwake
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Another title from Mr Crops, the studio behind Ashigaru Tactics. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
Dragonwake is an ASCII roguelike set in Valoria, the land once ruled by the old empire of Istaris before the Starfall. Your heirloom, a blackglass star amulet, draws you to the land just as the primordial dragon begins to stir.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Lost Eidolons
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
STRANGER SAGA -Stranger Bach and Iskiyeld's Ambition-
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashigaru Tactics.
"STRANGER SAGA" is a turn-based SRPG where you lead a resistance army against a mighty enemy force. Raise citizens into elite warriors and conquer challenging strategy battles!
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashigaru Tactics.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ashigaru Tactics.
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
Frequently asked about Ashigaru Tactics
- What games are most similar to Ashigaru Tactics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ashigaru Tactics are Battle Brothers, Lost Eidolons, The Iron Oath.
- Who developed Ashigaru Tactics?
- Ashigaru Tactics was developed by Mr Crops.
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