Games like Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
If Wasteland 2: Director's Cut is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, The Backrooms Project and Dr. Psycho: Hospital Escape 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its writing quality is exceptional, challenging and dark. 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 →Wasteland 2: Director's Cut is a turn-based tactical RPG set in a post-apocalyptic open world, developed by inXile Entertainment and released in 2014 at $29.99. Players build and customize a squad of Rangers, navigating faction politics and branching dialogue choices that shape the wasteland's future. The mechanics include character customization, tactical combat, and inventory management, with players highlighting the huge variety of weapon types available. Reviewers describe the experience as challenging and dark, noting that combat feels like real-life-or-death. The game offers substantial content and runs at Playable status on Steam Deck, holding an 86% positive rating from over 1350 Steam reviews.
About Wasteland 2: Director's Cut: From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
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Shares faction politics and a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Top pick for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
The Backrooms Project
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Second-strongest match for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
Dr. Psycho: Hospital Escape 2
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Third-strongest match for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Experience your deepest fears within the terrifying walls of Dr. Psycho's Hospital. Is this asylum the result of your own tormented mind? Go through many challenges, find hidden items and face awful psychopaths. Will you escape this nightmare or become its eternal prisoner?
Deck of Ashes
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Shares a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Ranked #4 for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Deck of Ashes is an adventure game with tactical card combat. One character at a time, lead the cast of antiheroes on a quest for redemption. Explore the cursed fantasy world and hunt down powerful cards. Forge a unique Battle Deck, and crush your foes! Can you rid the world of the Ash Curse?
Chroma Squad
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Shares tactical combat and character customization with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Ranked #5 for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Tactical RPG about 5 stunt actors who decide to quit their jobs and start their own Power Rangers-inspired TV show! Cast actors, upgrade your studio, craft Mechas of cardboard and duct tape. Once the cameras are rolling, control your cast of 5 colored-jumpsuit-clad warriors in turn-based battles.
- Arcane Raise -
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Shares a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Ranked #6 for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Arcane Raise is a role-playing video game franchise, wherein a group of resurrected hunters known as Shades, fight alongside humans against monsters in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by an infestation. Do you have what it takes to survive this hostile land?
Lawless Lands
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Shares a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Ranked #7 for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.
Waste Walkers
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Shares character customization with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Ranked #8 for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
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Fallout 4
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Shares a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Reviewers of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
Wasteland 3
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Shares faction politics, character customization and a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Reviewers of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Wasteland Remastered
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Shares a challenging mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Reviewers of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The RPG classic rises from the nuclear ashes! Wasteland Remastered is an overhaul of the 1988 title that brought the post-apocalypse to video games. See where the Wasteland series began and experience the character and world the sequels are built on.
RAGE
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Reviewers of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!
ELEX
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Shares faction politics and a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Reviewers of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.
Mad Max
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Reviewers of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
XCOM® 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Reviewers of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
ENDLESS™ Legend
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Shares a challenging mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Reviewers of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wasteland 2: Director's Cut at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~67% under Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~83% under Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~50% under Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
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 with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from inXile Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by inXile Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wasteland 3
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics, character customization and a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Torment: Tides of Numenera
WHY THIS
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. Shares RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™
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Shares a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. Shares Adventure with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
It will take the combined efforts of two great warriors to explore menacing dungeons, overgrown ruins, and downtrodden towns … and discover the secrets of the Demon’s Forge.
The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
WHY THIS
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. Shares Adventure and RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. Shares RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep
WHY THIS
Shares character customization with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Wasteland 2: Director's Cut. Shares RPG with Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
Frequently asked about Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
- Does Wasteland 2: Director's Cut run on Steam Deck?
- Wasteland 2: Director's Cut is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Wasteland 2: Director's Cut cost?
- Wasteland 2: Director's Cut is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wasteland 2: Director's Cut?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wasteland 2: Director's Cut are Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, The Backrooms Project, Dr. Psycho: Hospital Escape 2.
- Who developed Wasteland 2: Director's Cut?
- Wasteland 2: Director's Cut was developed by inXile Entertainment.
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