Games like The Great Wastes
If The Great Wastes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shieldlinked, Hibera, Requiem for the Forgotten and Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit — 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 The Great Wastes: "The Great Wastes" is a pixelated fantasy RPG. Players take on the role of a mysterious young man living in an isolated village. One day, the village is suddenly attacked by a group of unidentified black-clad individuals, forcing the young man to flee with his childhood sweetheart and companions.
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Shieldlinked
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Top pick for The Great Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Great Wastes.
In this turn-based tactical RPG, coordinate your attacks with close allies to overcome the enemy with the unique Link system. Win battles through clever planning, spare opponents to earn their equipment or recruit them to your cause, and resist those who sow division.
Hibera, Requiem for the Forgotten
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Second-strongest match for The Great Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Great Wastes.
War looms, and your allies need you. Fight your way through strife and turmoil on both sides of a conflict that threatens the continent of Hibera in this Strategy RPG, featuring a sweeping story, memorable characters, classic weapon triangle combat, and stakes with irreversible consequences.
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit
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Third-strongest match for The Great Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Great Wastes.
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit is the grand finale to the tactical RPG trilogy. Command a massive cast of returning heroes in the series’ most strategic entry yet. Master evolved turn-based combat, guide your army through tactical challenges, and witness the conclusion to every character's story.
The Tainted Lands
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Ranked #4 for The Great Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Great Wastes.
Tainted Lands is a turn-based tactical RPG in an eldritch fantasy setting. Lead a band of adventurers to traverse a forbidden wilderness where ancient horrors lie in wait. Recruit companions, scavenge relics, and face the Outer Gods.
Chess Army
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Ranked #5 for The Great Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Great Wastes.
Build your army, merge your units, and dominate the battlefield in a chess-inspired turn-based strategy game.
Verlicia Saga
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Ranked #6 for The Great Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Great Wastes.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
Chaos Front
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Ranked #7 for The Great Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Great Wastes.
A turn-based space mecha mercenary game. You can recruit pilots and captains with varying stories and skills, buy and modify spaceships, mecha, artillery, and fighters, take missions, participate in battles between Galactic Powers, change the situations, and experience different stories.
Fantasy Classic: Dungeon Crawler
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Ranked #8 for The Great Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Great Wastes.
Travel to Midenshire, form your party, and venture forth into adventure! Fantasy Classic: Dungeon Crawler is an old-school party-based CRPG of dungeon exploration, tactical combat, traps, treasure, light vs dark, clashing steel, high magic, and white knuckle survival.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Wastes.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Wastes.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Wastes.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Wastes.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Great Wastes.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Wastes.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Wastes.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about The Great Wastes
- What games are most similar to The Great Wastes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Great Wastes are Shieldlinked, Hibera, Requiem for the Forgotten, Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit.
- Who developed The Great Wastes?
- The Great Wastes was developed by 大荒游戏.
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 The Great Wastes.
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