Games like SteamWorld Heist
If SteamWorld Heist is your kind of game, the closest matches are SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech, SteamWorld Dig and Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, funny and retro. 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 →SteamWorld Heist is a 2016 turn-based tactical strategy game set in a steampunk universe. Players command a crew of colorful steambot pirates across procedurally generated levels, managing their squad's unique skills and collecting hats along the way. The core mechanic centers on manual aiming with bullets that ricochet off walls, allowing for creative tactical shots that players describe as both challenging and rewarding. Reviewers highlight the quick, replayable session structure and the quirky dialogue and lore that develops between missions. The game runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 94% positive rating from over 2,300 Steam reviews at $14.99.
About SteamWorld Heist: Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!
Players who liked SteamWorld Heist also play
Steam players who put hours into SteamWorld Heist 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.
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Top pick for SteamWorld Heist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
Lead a party of aspiring heroes through a beautifully hand-drawn world and intense battles using only your wits and a handful of cards. Take on whatever threat comes your way by crafting your own deck choosing from over 100 unique punch-cards!
SteamWorld Dig
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Second-strongest match for SteamWorld Heist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
WHY THIS
Shares turn based tactics with SteamWorld Heist.
Third-strongest match for SteamWorld Heist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Hard West
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Ranked #4 for SteamWorld Heist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
WHY THIS
Shares turn based tactics with SteamWorld Heist.
Ranked #5 for SteamWorld Heist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SteamWorld Heist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Ranked #7 for SteamWorld Heist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
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!
Blackguards 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Ranked #8 for SteamWorld Heist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
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!
Reviewers mention these as similar to SteamWorld Heist
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XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares turn based tactics and a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Heist cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
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.
SteamWorld Dig
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Heist cross-mention this title as a similar play.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Wargroove
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Heist cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!
SteamWorld Dig 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Heist cross-mention this title as a similar play.
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Heist cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SteamWorld Heist cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SteamWorld Heist cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
For The King
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Reviewers of SteamWorld Heist cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SteamWorld Heist at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SteamWorld Heist on Steam right now. Shares RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SteamWorld Heist on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under SteamWorld Heist on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SteamWorld Heist on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SteamWorld Heist on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SteamWorld Heist on Steam right now.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SteamWorld Heist on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SteamWorld Heist on Steam right now. Shares RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from Image & Form Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Image & Form Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SteamWorld Dig
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Heist.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
SteamWorld Dig 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Heist.
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
The Gunk
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Heist.
The Gunk is an action-adventure game in which you play as Rani, part of our duo of gritty space haulers. As they’re struggling to bring in funds, they chance upon an untouched planet brimming with life. They came in search of valuable resources, and it looks like they’ve hit the jackpot…
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Heist. Shares RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
Lead a party of aspiring heroes through a beautifully hand-drawn world and intense battles using only your wits and a handful of cards. Take on whatever threat comes your way by crafting your own deck choosing from over 100 unique punch-cards!
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech - Soundtrack
WHY THIS
Another title from Image & Form Games, the studio behind SteamWorld Heist.
Let SteamWorld Quest's soundtrack take you on a journey through lush forests, mysterious caves, eerie ruins and cold mountains.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
Lead a party of aspiring heroes through a beautifully hand-drawn world and intense battles using only your wits and a handful of cards. Take on whatever threat comes your way by crafting your own deck choosing from over 100 unique punch-cards!
SteamWorld Dig
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
WHY THIS
Shares turn based tactics with SteamWorld Heist.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Heist.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SteamWorld Heist.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with SteamWorld Heist.
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 SteamWorld Heist
- Is SteamWorld Heist verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SteamWorld Heist 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 SteamWorld Heist cost?
- SteamWorld Heist is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SteamWorld Heist?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SteamWorld Heist are SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech, SteamWorld Dig, Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus.
- Who developed SteamWorld Heist?
- SteamWorld Heist was developed by Image & Form Games.
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