Games like Gridlords
If Gridlords is your kind of game, the closest matches are Epic Card Battle Simulator, NARNOK and Oaken Tower — 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 Gridlords: Gridlords is a strategic async-PvP autobattler set in a fantasy pixel-art world. Build your ultimate castle, command legendary heroes, and outsmart rivals to prove your strategy reigns supreme.
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Epic Card Battle Simulator
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Top pick for Gridlords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gridlords.
a PvP card auto-battler simulator, play solo or with up-to 6 Friends! Play cards to summon little dudes who auto-battle each other to the death!
NARNOK
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gridlords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gridlords.
NARNOK has no attacks. Build your universe and assemble your alien lineup. Battle other players' ghost lineups and gain more NARNOK than them. There is only NAR, the essence of good and order. There is only NOK, the essence of evil and chaos.
StrategySteam ↗Oaken Tower
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gridlords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Gridlords.
Oaken Tower is a synergy-heavy PvP auto battler where your tower of items fights other players. Build deadly combos and scale exponentially. Every decision matters.
Battledroid
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Ranked #4 for Gridlords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridlords.
Become the commander of a mighty army of fearsome battledroids, and watch them fight in epic battles of mass destruction. Create your defences and test their strength, or send your forces to crush those of your friends and enemies online!
Turnbound
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Ranked #5 for Gridlords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridlords.
Turnbound is an auto battler, where you manage a hero's inventory to escape a haunted boardgame. Each run is different from the last, with unique upgrades, combos and synergies. Async PvP lets you battle the ghosts of other players at your own pace in this unique new inventory battler.
Wretch: Divine Ascent
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Ranked #6 for Gridlords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridlords.
A 1v1 tactical auto battler game with elements of roguelike mechanics and backpack management in a dark medieval art style. It was inspired by Backpack Battles and developed with Unreal Engine. Create your own unique attack combos by arranging items in your backpack to connect moves.
Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
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Ranked #7 for Gridlords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridlords.
Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!
Down with the Ship
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Ranked #8 for Gridlords fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridlords.
Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gridlords.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gridlords.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridlords.
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!
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 Gridlords.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gridlords.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridlords.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gridlords.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridlords.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Frequently asked about Gridlords
- Does Gridlords have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Gridlords supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Gridlords?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gridlords are Epic Card Battle Simulator, NARNOK, Oaken Tower.
- Who developed Gridlords?
- Gridlords was developed by Sphere Studios and published by Goblinz Publishing.
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 Gridlords.
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