Games like War of Banners
If War of Banners is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Brothers, BURNED HORIZONS and Cyber Knights: Flashpoint — 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.
BURNED HORIZONS
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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 gritty, turn-based tactical sandbox set in 2002. No XP grind. No class rails. No buy-your-way skill trees. // 'They said it wasn't our war. So we made it ours.'
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
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Third-strongest match 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!
The Iron Oath
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Ranked #4 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 #5 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.
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.
TRIANGLE STRATEGY
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Ranked #7 for War of Banners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with War of Banners.
A new tactics RPG from the team who brought you the Bravely series and Octopath Traveler. An epic tale, brought to life with stunning HD-2D graphics. Make difficult decisions in this story set against a backdrop of the war-torn continent of Norzelia.
Lost Eidolons
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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.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
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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.
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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.
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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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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!
The Last Spell
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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.
Quasimorph
WHY THIS
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.
TRIANGLE STRATEGY
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with War of Banners.
A new tactics RPG from the team who brought you the Bravely series and Octopath Traveler. An epic tale, brought to life with stunning HD-2D graphics. Make difficult decisions in this story set against a backdrop of the war-torn continent of Norzelia.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with War of Banners.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
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, BURNED HORIZONS, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint.
- 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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