Games like Launch!
If Launch! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mandate Order, Empires of Black Powder and EscortMission — 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 Launch!: A roguelike strategy game about aircraft carrier deck operations. Plan your flight deck, manage aircraft as cards, organize strike waves, maintain air superiority, and keep your damaged deck running under pressure. Launching aircraft is only half the battle. The real challenge is getting them back.
Players who liked Launch! also play
Steam players who put hours into Launch! 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.
Mandate Order
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Top pick for Launch! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
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.
Empires of Black Powder
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Second-strongest match for Launch! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
It’s the Napoleonic era, and you must build the battlefield you fight on. Send Pioneers to gather supplies, expand the local town, and prepare your defenses. Command companies in formation, keep your veterans alive, and carry their experience and upgrades into the next battle.
EscortMission
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Third-strongest match for Launch! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
The world’s most vital energy‑shipping chokepoint has been blockaded. You take off in a helicopter from a destroyer to carry out escort missions. Your objective is to neutralize sea mines and repel suicide unmanned boats and drones.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
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Ranked #4 for Launch! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
Legacy of Sail
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Ranked #5 for Launch! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Launch!.
As a 17th Century Admiral, send your squadrons out to capture enemy towns and sink their ships. Force boarding actions to capture their prized Ships of the Line all while balancing the need for supplies, repairs and upgrading your crew in this throwback real time tactics naval combat game
Tabletop Tavern
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Ranked #6 for Launch! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Launch!.
Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Recruit diverse units, create devastating synergies, and make tactical choices that shape the fate of every run.
Silent Shark
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Ranked #7 for Launch! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
A tactical, map-based WWII submarine sim set in the Pacific Theater: Approach, intercept, strike unseen, withdraw into the deep. With realistic instruments, a Torpedo Data Computer (TDC), and including a full campaign with missions, patrol zones, radio intel, and more.
The Legend of Mala Tokmachka
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Ranked #8 for Launch! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Launch!.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Launch!.
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 and Simulation with Launch!.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Launch!.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Launch!.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Launch!.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Launch!.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Launch!.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Launch!.
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.
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Frequently asked about Launch!
- What games are most similar to Launch!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Launch! are Mandate Order, Empires of Black Powder, EscortMission.
- Who developed Launch!?
- Launch! was developed by P.F.J..
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 Launch!.
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