Games like Hired Blade
If Hired Blade is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Iron Oath, Blackguards 2 and Ash of Gods: Redemption — 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 Hired Blade: Hired Blade is a tactical turn based RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Become a warchief of your own mercenary band, recruit hired blades, take on contracts, fight bandits and monsters. Unwind in taverns to boost your squad's morale! Embrace the hard life of a true gritty sellsword!
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Steam players who put hours into Hired Blade 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.
The Iron Oath
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Top pick for Hired Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
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.
Blackguards 2
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Second-strongest match for Hired Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
Ash of Gods: Redemption
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Third-strongest match for Hired Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.
The Last Spell
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Ranked #4 for Hired Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
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.
Fort Triumph
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Ranked #5 for Hired Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
A strategy game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with the world exploration of HOMM. Build towns, collect artifacts, improve your heroes, and influence your tactical surroundings using physics!
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
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Ranked #6 for Hired Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
King’s Bounty: Crossworlds is a standalone expansion that includes Armored Princess, two additional campaigns, and a world editor, expanding the classic King’s Bounty formula with new challenges and content.
Unity of Command II
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Ranked #7 for Hired Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Blackguards
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Ranked #8 for Hired Blade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Wheelchair Wizards
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Last Spell
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
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.
Fort Triumph
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
A strategy game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with the world exploration of HOMM. Build towns, collect artifacts, improve your heroes, and influence your tactical surroundings using physics!
Unity of Command II
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Hired Blade.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Frequently asked about Hired Blade
- What games are most similar to Hired Blade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hired Blade are The Iron Oath, Blackguards 2, Ash of Gods: Redemption.
- Who developed Hired Blade?
- Hired Blade was developed by Kobanchik.
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 Hired Blade.
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