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Games like Age of Fear: Total

If Age of Fear: Total is your kind of game, the closest matches are Age of Fear: The Undead King, The Last Spell and Warhammer Quest (Classic) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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.

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About Age of Fear: Total: This rich fantasy world loved by fans for its deep tactics and epic stories is due to become that much larger once the upcoming Ratmen enter the fold, bringing with it a brand new, meaty mainline quest for fans to battle through. But like any good adventure, it's never really over!

2023StrategyIndieRPG59.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Leslaw Sliwko
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Steam players who put hours into Age of Fear: Total 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.

  1. Age of Fear: The Undead King

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Age of Fear: Total fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Play as either Sir Edward, a noble Knight defending the Human Kingdom, or Krill, a wicked Necromancer with an unearthly lust for power! The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

    2015StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Second-strongest match for Age of Fear: Total fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    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.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Warhammer Quest (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Third-strongest match for Age of Fear: Total fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Fear: Total.

    Based on the classic tabletop game, Warhammer Quest is an addictive mix of role-playing and strategy.

    2015StrategyRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Ranked #4 for Age of Fear: Total fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Fear: Total.

    A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.

    2025StrategyAdventureRPG23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Ranked #5 for Age of Fear: Total fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!

    2019StrategyIndieRPG4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Dark Deity 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Ranked #6 for Age of Fear: Total fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Blackguards

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Ranked #7 for Age of Fear: Total fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    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.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Wintermoor Tactics Club

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Age of Fear: Total fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Age of Fear: Total

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Strain Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Reviewers of Age of Fear: Total cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Strain Tactics is a real-time-with-pause tactical game, where you command a squad of soldiers to liberate earth from an alien infestation. Using your helibase, deploy your custom squad and provide air support. Remember to keep your crew sane and motivated while staying clear of alien contamination!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. X-COM: UFO Defense

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Reviewers of Age of Fear: Total cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Age of Fear: Total.

    You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

    2008Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Age of Wonders

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Reviewers of Age of Fear: Total cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Fear: Total.

    Welcome to Age of Wonders, the authentic turn based fantasy strategy classic that started the hit series. Age of Wonders’ intimate atmosphere with painterly graphics still shines today. The game’s fully patched up, start building your fantasy empire today!

    2010StrategyRPG5.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Age of Fear: Total at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Age of Fear: Total on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Age of Fear: Total.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Age of Fear: Total on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Stardew Valley

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Age of Fear: Total on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Age of Fear: Total.

    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?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Phasmophobia

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Age of Fear: Total on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

    2020ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Age of Fear: Total on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under Age of Fear: Total on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Age of Fear: Total.

    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.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Schedule I

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Age of Fear: Total on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Subnautica

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Age of Fear: Total on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

    2018IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Leslaw Sliwko

Other recommendable Steam games by Leslaw Sliwko, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Age of Fear: The Undead King

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Leslaw Sliwko, the studio behind Age of Fear: Total. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Play as either Sir Edward, a noble Knight defending the Human Kingdom, or Krill, a wicked Necromancer with an unearthly lust for power! The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

    2015StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Another title from Leslaw Sliwko, the studio behind Age of Fear: Total. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Play as either Bel'Kara, a seductive Succubus at odds with the Underworld, or Katzok, a brutal Orc Chieftan fighting for his clan's dominance. The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

    2015StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Age of Fear 3: The Legend

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Another title from Leslaw Sliwko, the studio behind Age of Fear: Total. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Play as either Nairi, an imprisoned Dryad fighting for her freedom, or Gilrock, a drunken Dwarven Lord on a quest to restore his family's honour (or just to kick some arse!). The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

    2017StrategyIndieRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Age of Fear 4: The Iron Killer

    WHY THIS

    Shares faction politics and an immersive mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Another title from Leslaw Sliwko, the studio behind Age of Fear: Total. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Play as Angela, a fearless young Vampire Hunter on the trail of a brutal murderer. Along with the mysterious Nazell, embark on an epic quest into the heart of the criminal underworld. Age of Fear is a complex turn-based strategy series (full of jokes) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

    2021StrategyIndieRPG29.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Age of Fear: The Undead King GOLD

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Another title from Leslaw Sliwko, the studio behind Age of Fear: Total. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Play as either Sir Edward, a noble Knight defending the Human Kingdom, or Krill, a wicked Necromancer with an unearthly lust for power! The game is a greatly expanded version of the series' first entry and adds multiple features such as open world, global events, faction bases, new units, and so on.

    2019StrategyIndieRPG29.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Age of Fear 5: The Day of the Rat

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Leslaw Sliwko, the studio behind Age of Fear: Total. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Play as Indulf, a Black Knight in the Undead Legion with ambitions to build an empire of his own. Alongside the young Witch Lexa, set out on a lawless quest to plunder the realm. Age of Fear is a complex turn-based strategy series (full of jokes!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

    2024StrategyIndieRPG29.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    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.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Fear: Total.

    A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.

    2025StrategyAdventureRPG23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!

    2019StrategyIndieRPG4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Dark Deity 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Age of Fear: Total.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Wintermoor Tactics Club

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Fear: Total.

    Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Age of Fear: Total

Does Age of Fear: Total run on Steam Deck?
Age of Fear: Total 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 Age of Fear: Total cost?
Age of Fear: Total is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Age of Fear: Total?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Age of Fear: Total are Age of Fear: The Undead King, The Last Spell, Warhammer Quest (Classic).
Who developed Age of Fear: Total?
Age of Fear: Total was developed by Leslaw Sliwko and published by Age of Fear.

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 Age of Fear: Total.

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