Games like Frozen Synapse 2
If Frozen Synapse 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frozen Synapse, Frozen Cortex and Frozen Synapse Prime — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Frozen Synapse 2: Frozen Synapse 2 is the sequel to the award-winning turn-based tactical game. Command your squads in a vast procedurally generated city: enter any building, perform any mission, execute any strategy.
Players who liked Frozen Synapse 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Frozen Synapse 2 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.
Frozen Synapse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Top pick for Frozen Synapse 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Frozen Cortex
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Second-strongest match for Frozen Synapse 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
A hard-hitting simultaneous-turn-based tactical game from the creators of Frozen Synapse. Defeat your opponent’s plans on a randomly-generated playfield in this brutal futuresport.
Frozen Synapse Prime
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Third-strongest match for Frozen Synapse 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
Take on the role of Tactics, leading a rebel faction to overthrow a powerful corporation controlling the virtual city of Markov Geist. Control an elite strike team of futuristic soldiers; plot paths and issue orders to your units, test your plans and predict your opponent in each turn.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Ranked #4 for Frozen Synapse 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Field of Glory II
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Ranked #5 for Frozen Synapse 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
Field of Glory II is a turn-based tactical game set during the Rise of Rome from 280 BC to 25 BC.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Ranked #6 for Frozen Synapse 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a brutal take on one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time. Regicide fuses multiple phases of gameplay with dynamic action. Maneuver your army into place and unleash a devastating array of tactical abilities to crush your enemies.
Company of Crime
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Ranked #7 for Frozen Synapse 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force and crack down on the rising tide of corruption? Case out targets, then dive into the melee with your hand-picked team of gangsters or detectives.
Skulls of the Shogun
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and a challenging mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Ranked #8 for Frozen Synapse 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Enter the Samurai Afterlife and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal monks, and mustachioed samurai generals. It's fast-paced turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars, and supercharged with fighting-game flare!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Frozen Synapse 2
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X-COM: Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Reviewers of Frozen Synapse 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Frozen Synapse 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Frozen Synapse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Reviewers of Frozen Synapse 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Door Kickers
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Reviewers of Frozen Synapse 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Frozen Synapse 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Frozen Synapse 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Frozen Synapse 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Frozen Synapse 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Frozen Synapse 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Frozen Synapse 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Frozen Synapse 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
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!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
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
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Mode 7, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Frozen Synapse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Another title from Mode 7, the studio behind Frozen Synapse 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Frozen Cortex
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Frozen Synapse 2.
Another title from Mode 7, the studio behind Frozen Synapse 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
A hard-hitting simultaneous-turn-based tactical game from the creators of Frozen Synapse. Defeat your opponent’s plans on a randomly-generated playfield in this brutal futuresport.
TIME STRIKE
WHY THIS
Another title from Mode 7, the studio behind Frozen Synapse 2. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
TIME STRIKE is a single-player FPS that gives you maximum control: stop time to dodge projectiles, rip down walls, line up a headshot, and flip flying debris into hapless enemies. CONTROL TIME. CONTROL SPACE.
Frequently asked about Frozen Synapse 2
- Does Frozen Synapse 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Frozen Synapse 2 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 Frozen Synapse 2 cost?
- Frozen Synapse 2 is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Frozen Synapse 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Frozen Synapse 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Frozen Synapse 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Frozen Synapse 2 are Frozen Synapse, Frozen Cortex, Frozen Synapse Prime.
- Who developed Frozen Synapse 2?
- Frozen Synapse 2 was developed by Mode 7.
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