Games like Forts
If Forts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guns, Blocks, and Steel, Cold Response and Lost Existence — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep strategy and creativity, game is immensely rewarding and challenging. 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 →Forts is a physics-based real-time strategy game developed by EarthWork Games that tasks players with constructing elaborate fortified structures equipped with weapons and then engaging in combat where physics simulation determines structural damage and destruction. Released in 2017 at $14.99, the title blends action and strategy across campaign and multiplayer modes including online cooperative play. Players manage resources while designing and customizing their bases, and the game supports modding for extended content. The physics-based building system provides a core hook, with players describing the experience as immensely rewarding, and reviewers highlight deep strategy and creativity across the massive content spanning extended sessions. Forts runs in a playable state on Steam Deck and holds a 93% positive rating from over 8,500 Steam reviews.
About Forts: Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!
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Guns, Blocks, and Steel
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Top pick for Forts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forts.
A tactical multiplayer FPS created by a solo developer as a passion project. Featuring a fully destructible, block-based environment. Gather resources to produce weapons, ammo, and vehicles. Play multiplayer PVP/co-op or singleplayer with bots.
Cold Response
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Second-strongest match for Forts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Forts.
Explore and survive a war torn Sweden through the eyes of an unknown soldier, alone or with friends.
Lost Existence
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Shares a challenging mood with Forts.
Third-strongest match for Forts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forts.
Explore vast, forgotten lands, cryptic abandoned ruins, and mysterious caverns, in this open-world voxel action-RPG. Create your own uniquely crafted class. Build multiplayer dungeon, PvP, or siege experiences. Run, vault, and leap effortlessly across endless wilderness, or delve deep underground.
Arma 3
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Shares a challenging mood with Forts.
Ranked #4 for Forts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Forts.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #5 for Forts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forts.
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
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Ranked #6 for Forts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forts.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI
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Ranked #7 for Forts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forts.
Experience the dramatic conflict of samurai culture and modern weaponry between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Forts.
Ranked #8 for Forts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Forts.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Forts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forts.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Forts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forts.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Forts on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forts.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Forts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forts.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Forts on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forts.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Forts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Forts.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Forts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forts.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Forts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forts.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Forts.
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 Action and Indie with Forts.
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 Forts.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forts.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Forts.
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.).
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Frequently asked about Forts
- Does Forts run on Steam Deck?
- Forts 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 Forts cost?
- Forts is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Forts have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Forts supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Forts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forts are Guns, Blocks, and Steel, Cold Response, Lost Existence.
- Who developed Forts?
- Forts was developed by EarthWork Games.
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