Games like Battle Brothers
If Battle Brothers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fernageddon, Wartales and Blades For Hire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modding community extends lifespan, challenging and immersive. 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 →Battle Brothers is a strategy RPG set in a medieval fantasy world where players lead a mercenary company across a procedurally generated open campaign. Released in 2017 at $29.99, the game combines company management with turn-based tactical combat, tasking players with recruitment, contract selection, training, and equipment acquisition. Permadeath ensures fallen brothers are permanently lost, and RNG-based combat keeps every engagement unpredictable. Reviewers highlight the tactical positioning that determines battle outcomes and the deeply personal nature of building a company from humble beginnings. Players describe the experience as challenging and tense, with a steep learning curve that rewards mastery over time. The game is playable on Steam Deck, supports extensive modding, and carries an 89% positive rating from over 14,700 Steam reviews.
About Battle Brothers: 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.
Players who liked Battle Brothers also play
Steam players who put hours into Battle Brothers 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.
Fernageddon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Battle Brothers.
Top pick for Battle Brothers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Do you like to burn things? We do! A combat turn-based RPG / strategy game. About burning down the world... New - Play in Heretic mode and fight a sandbox style fight against the forces of fire!
Wartales
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Brothers.
Second-strongest match for Battle Brothers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Blades For Hire
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Battle Brothers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
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.
Every Day We Fight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Battle Brothers.
Ranked #4 for Battle Brothers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
MENACE
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath and a tense mood with Battle Brothers.
Ranked #5 for Battle Brothers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Battle Brothers.
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath and an immersive mood with Battle Brothers.
Ranked #6 for Battle Brothers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
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
Shares a challenging mood with Battle Brothers.
Ranked #7 for Battle Brothers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
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!
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Battle Brothers.
Ranked #8 for Battle Brothers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Battle Brothers.
The dramatic RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel series is now complete!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Battle Brothers
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Wartales
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Brothers.
Reviewers of Battle Brothers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Mount & Blade
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Brothers.
Reviewers of Battle Brothers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Battle Brothers.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
MENACE
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath and a tense mood with Battle Brothers.
Reviewers of Battle Brothers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Battle Brothers.
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Battle Brothers.
Reviewers of Battle Brothers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Battle Brothers.
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.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Battle Brothers.
Reviewers of Battle Brothers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
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?
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Battle Brothers.
Reviewers of Battle Brothers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
Our Adventurer Guild
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Battle Brothers.
Reviewers of Battle Brothers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Become the new Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild and lead your adventurers in explorations and turnbased tactical battles. Will the Guild thrive under your leadership? Or will it finally disband under it?
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Battle Brothers.
Reviewers of Battle Brothers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Battle Brothers.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Battle Brothers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Battle Brothers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Battle Brothers.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Battle Brothers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Battle Brothers.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Battle Brothers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Battle Brothers.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Battle Brothers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Battle Brothers.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Battle Brothers on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Battle Brothers.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Battle Brothers on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Battle Brothers.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Battle Brothers.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Battle Brothers.
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. Shares Simulation with Battle Brothers.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Battle Brothers.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Battle Brothers.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Wartales
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Battle Brothers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Every Day We Fight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Battle Brothers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath and an immersive mood with Battle Brothers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
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
Shares a challenging mood with Battle Brothers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
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 Battle Brothers
- Does Battle Brothers run on Steam Deck?
- Battle Brothers 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 Battle Brothers cost?
- Battle Brothers is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Battle Brothers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Battle Brothers are Fernageddon, Wartales, Blades For Hire.
- Who developed Battle Brothers?
- Battle Brothers was developed by Overhype Studios and published by Hooded Horse, Overhype Studios.
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 Battle Brothers.
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