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Games like Aurora Directive

If Aurora Directive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Exo Chumps, Galactic Space Guard and Demolitors — 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.

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About Aurora Directive: Command an elite mercenary squad in a story-driven turn-based tactics game. Use experimental augmentations, master a flexible 3 Action Point combat system, and fight through a war for control of the Nova Prime System.

ActionStrategyIndieEarly AccessWindowsby Breakdown Police Games
Aurora Directive — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Aurora Directive 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.

  1. Exo Chumps

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Aurora Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aurora Directive.

    Brutal tactical turn-based combat challenging your commander skills. Unforgiving strategic decision making only true generals can withstand. Beaten down by an alien invasion. Risen from victory. Travel to different planets, conquer new worlds or join forces with alien allies.

    2026StrategyIndieEarly Access4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Galactic Space Guard

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Aurora Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Aurora Directive.

    Galactic Space Guard is a turn-based tactics game. Lead your squad of elite soldiers to defend humanity’s space stations, upgrade your squad, prepare for battle, and restore peace across the galaxy!

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Demolitors

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Aurora Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Aurora Directive.

    Command powerful Demolitors, battle enemy machines with unique Insignias, upgrade each machine through its skill tree, unlock even stronger Insignias, and defeat formidable bosses.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. Tech Disorder

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Aurora Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Aurora Directive.

    "Tech Disorder" merges turn-based strategy, Roguelike elements & deckbuilding in a cyberpunk world. Outwit foes with tactical plays and card combos.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. electric strategy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Aurora Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aurora Directive.

    A turn-based tactics game where every action costs energy. Command robots across a grid-based battlefield, transfer power between units, and help machines reclaim their will.

    2027StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Veterum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Aurora Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aurora Directive.

    Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!

    2025StrategyIndieRPG17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Aurora Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Aurora Directive.

    Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Mortal Glory 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Aurora Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aurora Directive.

    Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Aurora Directive.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Aurora Directive.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aurora Directive.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Aircar

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aurora Directive.

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aurora Directive.

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Aurora Directive.

    A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Aurora Directive.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Wires And Whiskers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Aurora Directive.

    Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.

    2025ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Aurora Directive

What games are most similar to Aurora Directive?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aurora Directive are Exo Chumps, Galactic Space Guard, Demolitors.
Who developed Aurora Directive?
Aurora Directive was developed by Breakdown Police Games.

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