Games like Blades For Hire
If Blades For Hire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Brothers, Expeditions: Viking and The Last Spell — 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 Blades For Hire: Blades for Hire is a captivating strategy game where you lead a mercenary guild. Dive into the story of a man fighting for survival, facing daily choices between morality and pragmatism. Guide your guild to prosperity—or ruin—as you navigate the harsh realities of a mercenary’s life.
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Battle Brothers
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Top pick for Blades For Hire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
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.
Expeditions: Viking
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Second-strongest match for Blades For Hire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?
The Last Spell
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Third-strongest match for Blades For Hire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
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.
Lost Eidolons
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Ranked #4 for Blades For Hire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
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.
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
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Ranked #5 for Blades For Hire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
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Ranked #6 for Blades For Hire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Expeditions: Rome
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Ranked #7 for Blades For Hire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?
Blackguards 2
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Ranked #8 for Blades For Hire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
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!
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Grimm's Hollow
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Last Spell
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
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.
Lost Eidolons
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
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.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blades For Hire.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Frequently asked about Blades For Hire
- What games are most similar to Blades For Hire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blades For Hire are Battle Brothers, Expeditions: Viking, The Last Spell.
- Who developed Blades For Hire?
- Blades For Hire was developed by DoubleTap and published by Valkyrie Initiative.
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 Blades For Hire.
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