Games like Ratnik
If Ratnik is your kind of game, the closest matches are King's Orders, Radio Commander: Vietnam '64 and Regiments — 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 Ratnik: A battle is won before it begins. Ratnik is a medieval auto battler focused on smart unit composition, positioning and counterplay. Defeat powerful Lords, unlock new forces and master the art of war.
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Steam players who put hours into Ratnik 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.
King's Orders
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ratnik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.
Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ratnik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.
Regiments
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ratnik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
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.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ratnik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Wargame: Red Dragon
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Ranked #5 for Ratnik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
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
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ratnik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
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.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ratnik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ratnik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold contains Supreme Ruler 2020 and the expansion, Global Crisis: SUPREME RULER 2020 Overnight, the US dollar crashes AND the sound echoes across the globe. The economic crisis amplifies global instabilities and regional disputes, tearing the world asunder. Nations dissolve, economies collapse, and tensions escalate.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ratnik at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ratnik on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Ratnik.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ratnik on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ratnik on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Ratnik on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Ratnik.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ratnik on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ratnik on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ratnik on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Ratnik.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Nubby's Number Factory
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ratnik on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ratnik.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ratnik.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
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.
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More from Phalanx Tactical
Other recommendable Steam games by Phalanx Tactical, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Platoon
WHY THIS
Another title from Phalanx Tactical, the studio behind Ratnik. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
Assault and defend positions. Exploit cover and terrain. Call in artillery strikes and use special units. Storm trenches, conquer villages and urban neighborhoods. Command your troops from a classic Real-Time Tactics perspective, or take direct control of any soldier or vehicle on the battlefield.
Warboss
WHY THIS
Another title from Phalanx Tactical, the studio behind Ratnik. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
Choose your units, place them where it counts and build an army that wins. Deploy heroes with powerful skills to support your units and swing the battle your way. Unite the clans and take the fight to the Dubdals. Warboss is a casual and goofy battle simulator.
Duball Dash
WHY THIS
Another title from Phalanx Tactical, the studio behind Ratnik.
Roll fast, crash often, and keep dashing—Duball Dash is endless hyper-casual fun inside the tube. Roll fast as a cool green ball rocking swag white ski goggles, dodge metal walls with black-and-yellow hazard tape, and slip past bouncing red cylinders as the speed ramps up.
Frequently asked about Ratnik
- How much does Ratnik cost?
- Ratnik is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ratnik?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ratnik are King's Orders, Radio Commander: Vietnam '64, Regiments.
- Who developed Ratnik?
- Ratnik was developed by Phalanx Tactical.
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 Ratnik.
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