Games like Failover
If Failover is your kind of game, the closest matches are Close the Sky, Mandate Order and The Legend of Mala Tokmachka — 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 Failover: Take command of civil air defense under constant threat. Build radar networks, manage power and resources, and decide when to sound the sirens. Every choice has consequences. Hold your cities together as escalation turns survival into strategy.
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Close the Sky
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Top pick for Failover fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Failover.
A real-time war of air defence and industry. Build the economy, bury it, and layer SAMs over what you cannot hide. Read a fading intel picture of the enemy base and aim every missile yourself. Break their will to fight before they break yours.
Mandate Order
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Second-strongest match for Failover fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Failover.
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.
The Legend of Mala Tokmachka
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Third-strongest match for Failover fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Build, expand, and arm a towering 2D fortress to withstand endless waves of ground and air attacks. Set in a nameless frontier village where a siege has lasted so long it became a legend, "The Legend of Mala Tokmachka" turns survival into myth.
Last Train Home
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Ranked #4 for Failover fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Failover.
The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.
Wargame: Red Dragon
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Ranked #5 for Failover fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Failover.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Steel Division: Normandy 44
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Ranked #6 for Failover fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
Regiments
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Ranked #7 for Failover fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence
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Ranked #8 for Failover fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series.
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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 Failover.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Failover.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Failover.
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.
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 Failover.
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!
Counter-Strike 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
AdVenture Capitalist
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
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Frequently asked about Failover
- What games are most similar to Failover?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Failover are Close the Sky, Mandate Order, The Legend of Mala Tokmachka.
- Who developed Failover?
- Failover was developed by Maksym Vostruhin.
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