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Games like Templar Battleforce

If Templar Battleforce is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heroes of Steel RPG, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint and The Last Spell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and epic. 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 Templar Battleforce: An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.

2015ActionStrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Trese Brothers
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Steam players who put hours into Templar Battleforce 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. Heroes of Steel RPG

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Templar Battleforce.

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

    Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

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

    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 ↗
  3. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Templar Battleforce.

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

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Ranked #4 for Templar Battleforce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Depth of Extinction

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

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

    Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements

    2018StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Rogue Fable IV

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Templar Battleforce.

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

    Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Ranked #7 for Templar Battleforce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Templar Battleforce.

    Beyond creation, four eras come together as one! Discover the latest entry in this iconic Tactical RPG series. Form your own team of SD Gundams and deploy for battle -- with units from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, SEED, 00, and Iron-Blooded Orphans!

    2019StrategyRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Warbanners

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

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

    Warbanners: the turn-based, tactical strategy game with role-playing elements that lets you manage a squad of mercenaries, and survive 42 campaign missions. Your goal? To earn a place among ancient legends!

    2017StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Templar Battleforce

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Xenonauts

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Reviewers of Templar Battleforce cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Space Hulk (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Reviewers of Templar Battleforce cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    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.

    2013StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Templar Battleforce cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Templar Battleforce.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Reviewers of Templar Battleforce cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Templar Battleforce.

    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.

    2018Strategy14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Reviewers of Templar Battleforce cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Templar Battleforce.

    MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?

    2018Strategy29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. V Rising

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Reviewers of Templar Battleforce cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Templar Battleforce.

    Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

    2024ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. XCOM® 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Reviewers of Templar Battleforce cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Templar Battleforce.

    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.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Templar Battleforce at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Templar Battleforce on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Templar Battleforce on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Templar Battleforce on Steam right now. Shares Action with Templar Battleforce.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Templar Battleforce on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Templar Battleforce on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Templar Battleforce on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Templar Battleforce on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Templar Battleforce.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Templar Battleforce on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 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 Templar Battleforce.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Templar Battleforce.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

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

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Templar Battleforce.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Trese Brothers

Other recommendable Steam games by Trese Brothers, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Star Traders: Frontiers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Another title from Trese Brothers, the studio behind Templar Battleforce. Shares Strategy and RPG with Templar Battleforce.

    You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

    2018StrategyRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Another title from Trese Brothers, the studio behind Templar Battleforce. Shares Action and Strategy with Templar Battleforce.

    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 ↗
  3. Heroes of Steel RPG

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Another title from Trese Brothers, the studio behind Templar Battleforce. Shares Strategy and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Star Traders: 4X Empires

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Another title from Trese Brothers, the studio behind Templar Battleforce. Shares Strategy and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Templar Battleforce.

    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 ↗
  2. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Templar Battleforce.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Templar Battleforce.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Templar Battleforce.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Templar Battleforce

Does Templar Battleforce run on Steam Deck?
Templar Battleforce 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 Templar Battleforce cost?
Templar Battleforce is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Templar Battleforce?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Templar Battleforce are Heroes of Steel RPG, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, The Last Spell.
Who developed Templar Battleforce?
Templar Battleforce was developed by Trese Brothers.

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 Templar Battleforce.

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