Games like War of Banners
If War of Banners is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Brothers, 8 More Lives and Ashigaru Tactics — 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 War of Banners: War of Banners is a sandbox turn-based tactical RPG set in a medieval open world. Recruit companions, lead your army, and claim victory across brutal battlefields. From a wandering mercenary band to an empire-ruling sovereign — your fate is shaped by strategy and choice.
Players who liked War of Banners also play
Steam players who put hours into War of Banners 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.
Battle Brothers
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Top pick for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with War of Banners.
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.
8 More Lives
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Second-strongest match for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
A challenging turn-based tactical RPG. Lead a mercenary company of outcast cats through a gritty procedural open world. Take contracts, count coin, bury the dead. Battle rival warbands and night horrors. You have 8 more lives - try not to waste them all.
Ashigaru Tactics
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Third-strongest match for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with War of Banners.
Ashigaru Tactics is a turn-based hex tactical combat sandbox game, set in Sengoku-era Japan. Assemble a squad of mercenaries and fight, survive, and kill in a land ravaged by clan wars, bandit incursions, and whispers of Yokai emerging.
Warhounds
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Ranked #4 for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with War of Banners.
Warhounds is a turn-based tactical game about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action movie vibe, inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance. Recruit unique fighters, upgrade your base, and fight for Africa’s future. Less fake RNG, more true ballistics and lethal tactics.
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
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Ranked #5 for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
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!
Quasimorph
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Ranked #6 for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
The Iron Oath
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Ranked #7 for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
Command, endure, and prosper in The Iron Oath, a turn-based tactical RPG where the fate of your mercenary company rests on your decisions. Customize your roster, build your renown, and discover the secrets that await in the medieval fantasy realm of Caelum.
The Last Spell
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Ranked #8 for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with War of Banners.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with War of Banners.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with War of Banners.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with War of Banners.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with War of Banners.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with War of Banners.
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.
The Lab
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with War of Banners.
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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.
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
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!
Quasimorph
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
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.
Frequently asked about War of Banners
- What games are most similar to War of Banners?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside War of Banners are Battle Brothers, 8 More Lives, Ashigaru Tactics.
- Who developed War of Banners?
- War of Banners was developed by Jackto 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 War of Banners.
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