Games like Shadows of War 2
If Shadows of War 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lines of Battle, Airships: Conquer the Skies and Broken Arrow — 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 Shadows of War 2: Command one of four armies in Shadows of War II, a side-scrolling RTS with destructible terrain, procedural maps, and four tug-of-war modes. Build armies, call in strikes, and outwit foes in tense 1v1 multiplayer battles.
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Steam players who put hours into Shadows of War 2 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.
Lines of Battle
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Top pick for Shadows of War 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadows of War 2.
Command armies in tactical battles with simultaneous turns during the Napoleonic Wars. Lead forces through single-player strategy campaigns, master formations and flanking tactics, then test your skills in competitive 1v1 and 4v4 battles.
Airships: Conquer the Skies
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Second-strongest match for Shadows of War 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadows of War 2.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Broken Arrow
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Third-strongest match for Shadows of War 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Shadows of War 2.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
Wargame: Airland Battle
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Ranked #4 for Shadows of War 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadows of War 2.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
First Strike
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Ranked #5 for Shadows of War 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadows of War 2.
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
DEFCON
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Ranked #6 for Shadows of War 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadows of War 2.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
Rebel Inc: Escalation
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Ranked #7 for Shadows of War 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Shadows of War 2.
A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.
Mandate Order
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Ranked #8 for Shadows of War 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadows of War 2.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows of War 2.
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?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows of War 2.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows of War 2.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows of War 2.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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 Shadows of War 2.
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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Tukoni: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows of War 2.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
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Frequently asked about Shadows of War 2
- Does Shadows of War 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shadows of War 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Shadows of War 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadows of War 2 are Lines of Battle, Airships: Conquer the Skies, Broken Arrow.
- Who developed Shadows of War 2?
- Shadows of War 2 was developed by TRI.G.
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 Shadows of War 2.
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