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Games like Brutal War

If Brutal War is your kind of game, the closest matches are soulstation, PrisonShow and Islands of the Caliph — 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 Brutal War: A game of dark humor and political and social satire. Crude and realistic references in a 3D first-person shooter. Prepare to see some very strange things in this strange game. LET'S KILL THE NAZIS TOGETHER!

ActionStrategyIndieAdventureWindows · Linuxby Light BOOM!!!©, Angel Emmanuel Rijo Lopez / Skillvast
Brutal War — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Brutal War 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. soulstation

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Brutal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Brutal War.

    Kin and Clef lose themselves in The Station – an afterlife that rotates dreams into realities and a wish into a memory. What awaits them at the end of the spiral? Don't be afraid, don't be anything.

    2026IndieSteam ↗
  2. PrisonShow

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Brutal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Brutal War.

    A short story of tyranism and little bit optimisim. A contest for her mostly freedom.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure5.00 USDSteam ↗
  3. Islands of the Caliph

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Brutal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Brutal War.

    Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The You Testament: The 2D Coming

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Brutal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Brutal War.

    This 2D remake of the biblical epic puts YOU on the scene of each story, where you can either repeat history or rewrite it! Follow in the footsteps of a prophet as he seeks to enlighten the masses, and find your place among them as the struggle to survive tests your faith...

    2023ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Four Last Things

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Brutal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.

    2017IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Procession to Calvary

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Brutal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.

    2020IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. One-Eyed Likho

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Brutal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    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 ↗
  2. 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 Brutal War.

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

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Chicken Invaders Universe

    WHY THIS

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

    A deliciously addictive core of finger-blistering shooting action, surrounded by delectable morsels of galactic exploration, spacecraft customization, and community competitions.

    2022ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Exo One: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time. This is the prologue for Exo One.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  5. Animyst

    WHY THIS

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

    Explore a strange and dark afterlife as the Undead. Inhabit the body of a Skeleton or Fleshy Corpse and build a new life in The Droughts, a giant desert of ancient ruins and occult monsters. Craft powerful spells and befriend or battle other players in a single open online world...

    2018ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Siren's Call: Free Beta Edition

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Brutal War.

    This is an outdated, public beta for Siren's Call: Escape Velocity. Home is where your body is. And like any good tourist trap, Siren’s Call will do whatever it can to keep you there as long as possible. They will drag you down like crabs in a bucket. They will make this place home.

    2022AdventureFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Destination Primus Vita - Ep. 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    Destination Primus Vita is a narrative, first-person and episodic puzzle game set in a science-fiction universe. Follow the adventures of our main six characters: Austin, Hayao, Artemis, BrX, Geny and Coby as they travel across the cosmos to Primus Vita to complete their vital mission… to save life on Earth!

    2018IndieAdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. MITE - Terror in the forest

    WHY THIS

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

    MITE is a horror game, with some difficulty, in which you play a hiker who has lost his family in a cursed forest... find your family and escape, while strange creatures from Japanese folklore chase you, orient yourself .

    2023ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck 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. The You Testament: The 2D Coming

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Brutal War.

    This 2D remake of the biblical epic puts YOU on the scene of each story, where you can either repeat history or rewrite it! Follow in the footsteps of a prophet as he seeks to enlighten the masses, and find your place among them as the struggle to survive tests your faith...

    2023ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Four Last Things

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.

    2017IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Procession to Calvary

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.

    2020IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. One-Eyed Likho

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Brutal War.

    One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Brutal War

What games are most similar to Brutal War?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Brutal War are soulstation, PrisonShow, Islands of the Caliph.
Who developed Brutal War?
Brutal War was developed by Light BOOM!!!©, Angel Emmanuel Rijo Lopez / Skillvast and published by Light BOOM!!!© By Skillvast.

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 Brutal War.

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