Games like Arete
If Arete is your kind of game, the closest matches are World War 2 Operation Husky, Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game and Valor & Victory — 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 Arete: Arete: The Battles of Alexander the Great is a classic hex-and-counter digital wargame where you'll relive the Macedonian king's most epic battles, from fighting alongside his father in Greece to climactic clashes with Darius in Persia to battling warlords at the extreme fringe of the empire.
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World War 2 Operation Husky
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Top pick for Arete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Arete.
A light wargame with simple rules tailored to run smooth battles. Recommended to introduce new players to wargames basic concepts and for fast multiplayer matches.
Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Arete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Arete.
Lock 'n Load Tactical is fast and Furious tactical combat that is fast to learn. In LnLT you get squads, weapon teams, armored vehicles, fixed-wing aircraft, and, in the modern-era games, helicopters. Individuals such as Leaders, Medics, Snipers, Chaplains, Advisors, and, of course, Heroes.
Valor & Victory
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Arete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arete.
Valor & Victory is a fast-playing, easy to learn World War II squad-level game system. Based on the original Valor & Victory board game, the digital edition provides you with an accessible and deep challenge, developed for classic tabletop game lovers.
Headquarters: World War II
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Ranked #4 for Arete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Arete.
Headquarters: World War II is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game where your battlefield tactics are as important as your army management skills. Experience both sides of the war, battling in Europe as the USA, the UK, or Germany. Storm bunkers, occupy houses, win tank duels.
Hex of Steel
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Ranked #5 for Arete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arete.
Hex of Steel is a refreshing WWII wargame covering all fronts featuring a certain amount of original mechanics. Fight in solo against finally a decent AI throughout Europe, Africa or the Pacific, or against a friend in the cross-platform PBEM or real time multiplayer. Coop is also an option!
Civil War: Battle of Petersburg
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Ranked #6 for Arete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arete.
Crush the Confederates near Petersburg and Richmond in 1864. Bring peace to a nation divided.
Panzer Corps 2
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Ranked #7 for Arete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arete.
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
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Ranked #8 for Arete fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arete.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Arete at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Arete on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Arete.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Arete on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Arete.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Arete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Arete.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Arete on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Arete.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Arete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Arete.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Arete on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Arete.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Arete on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Arete.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Arete on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Arete.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Arete.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Arete.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
NERTS! Online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Arete.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Arete.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《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.
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Frequently asked about Arete
- How much does Arete cost?
- Arete is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Arete have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Arete supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Arete?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Arete are World War 2 Operation Husky, Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game, Valor & Victory.
- Who developed Arete?
- Arete was developed by Molotov Cockatiel Games, Vasilios Kalpakoglou and published by Molotov Cockatiel Games.
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 Arete.
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