Games like Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic)
If Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic), Talisman: Digital Classic Edition and Space Hulk (Classic) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lore crunch enhances immersion, atmospheric and dark. 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 Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic): Talisman: The Horus Heresy is a digital board game based on the Talisman rule system and set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, during the cataclysmic events of the Horus Heresy.
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Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Top pick for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Space Hulk: Ascension is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which re-interprets the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, new weapons and missions, new enemy types, 3 playable chapters and loads of other new features to the single player experience.
Talisman: Digital Classic Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The complete 4th Edition experience of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board!
Space Hulk (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Third-strongest match for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds.
Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Ranked #4 for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.
Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Ranked #5 for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch is a turn-based strategy game, set on the edge of Imperial space, where your Space Marines will take on the Tyranids in a series of tactical engagements.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Ranked #6 for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a brutal take on one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time. Regicide fuses multiple phases of gameplay with dynamic action. Maneuver your army into place and unleash a devastating array of tactical abilities to crush your enemies.
Talisman: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Ranked #7 for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Talisman Prologue is an adaptation of the classic fantasy board game Talisman by Games Workshop. This version focuses on single player experience. An epic tale of dice rolling and card drawing takes you on a quest throughout the land to rescue Princesses, slay Dragons and recover lost artefacts.
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Ranked #8 for Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach is a 3D turn-based strategy game like you’ve never seen before: fast, immediate, deep, impressive to look at and incredibly fun! Fight through a dark era of carnage and endless war and lead the Space Wolves in a struggle to defend the last bastion of mankind.
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Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
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.
Talisman: Digital Classic Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The complete 4th Edition experience of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board!
Talisman: Digital 5th Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Reviewers of Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The definitive, most customisable version of Talisman, ever. Discover a world where every journey is a fresh experience in the ultimate digital sandbox for this iconic fantasy adventure board game. This is your Talisman, your rules.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) at current Steam store prices.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Tower Wizard
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Hexcells Plus
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Lords of the Realm II
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The great Lords of England have their eyes on the the English throne! Muster an army and overrun your enemies' castles in this classic, nail-biting strategy game that blends turn-based and real-time gameplay.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
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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Other recommendable Steam games by Nomad Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Talisman: Digital Classic Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic). Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The complete 4th Edition experience of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board!
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Jump into the rich world of Warhammer 40,000 in this fast paced 3rd person action shooter. As one of the Emperor's Elite Space Marines you have been sent on a vital mission to assault a gigantic Ork Kroozer headed for an Imperial Forge World.
Mystic Vale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic). Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Are you ready to lead your druidic clan and cleanse the Valley of Life? Mystic Vale is a stunning digital version of the Origins award-winning AEG card game. Debuting the unique Card Crafting System, players take turns building powerful combos in order to stop the curse. Play online or local hotseat.
Love Letter
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic). Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The princess has several suitors... but which of them will manage to charm her? Choose a strategy, be it through bluffing or power of deduction, to win your beloved's heart. The official adaptation of the renowned card game.
Cat Lady - The Card Game
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic). Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Cat Lady - The Card Game is a fun card-drafting game in which players are Cat Ladies, trying to tempt cats into their cattery using food, toys, costumes and more. Based on the much-loved card game by AEG.
Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic). Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Dracula is ready to take over Europe and only four iconic vampire hunters can stop him, in this digital adaptation of the classic board game of deduction and gothic horror. Play locally with friends or with up to five players online. Will you be the hunter or the hunted?
Talisman: Digital 5th Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic). Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
The definitive, most customisable version of Talisman, ever. Discover a world where every journey is a fresh experience in the ultimate digital sandbox for this iconic fantasy adventure board game. This is your Talisman, your rules.
Talisman: Origins (Classic)
WHY THIS
Another title from Nomad Games, the studio behind Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic). Shares Strategy with Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic).
This adaptation of the Talisman board game focuses on solo play as you adventure through many epic quests using the full rule-set of the Revised 4th Edition.
Frequently asked about Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic)
- Does Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) run on Steam Deck?
- Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) cost?
- Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic)?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) are Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic), Talisman: Digital Classic Edition, Space Hulk (Classic).
- Who developed Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic)?
- Talisman: The Horus Heresy (Classic) was developed by Nomad Games.
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