Games like Axes and Acres
If Axes and Acres is your kind of game, the closest matches are Militia 2, Rolling in the Reef and Solar Settlers — 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 Axes and Acres: Axes and Acres is a deep and engaging single-player strategy game designed to create exciting decisions every turn. The rules are easy to learn, but every turn can be played out in many different ways in order to farm, build and survive.
Players who liked Axes and Acres also play
Steam players who put hours into Axes and Acres 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.
Militia 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Axes and Acres.
Top pick for Axes and Acres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Militia is back with more bite-sized strategy that evolves to match your skill! Beat back hordes of ruffians that challenge you in Beam and Push World!
Rolling in the Reef
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Axes and Acres.
Second-strongest match for Axes and Acres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Rolling in the Reef is a dice-driven strategy game about guiding your fishy friends to thrive in their coral home. Dive beneath the waves to build big fish combos, collect valuable artifacts and unlock wild new schools of fish.
Solar Settlers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Axes and Acres.
Third-strongest match for Axes and Acres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Solar Settlers is a card-driven space exploration strategy game set in the far future. Our sun is on the verge of collapse and so mankind has taken to the stars aboard colony ships to seek out a new home.
Minos Strategos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Axes and Acres.
Ranked #4 for Axes and Acres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
You are the legendary Minos Strategos (general of the ancient city of Minos)! Command the defenders of the temple by harnessing the power of specific battle formations to push back the Minotaur hordes. Minos Strategos is a quick single-player strategy game with a focus on elegance and clarity.
Predictors
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Axes and Acres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
Go solo or invite up to three friends to play this turn-based roguelike, where all characters move simultaneously. Fight against evil forces in the ever-changing Dark Forest. Learn skills: from Fire Magic to Necromancy. Get better loot. Change the difficulty. Repeat.
Militia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Axes and Acres.
Ranked #6 for Axes and Acres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Militia is a tight turn-based strategy game that brings the thrill of victory to single-player. It's simple to pick up, and from the moment you start, you'll be learning and improving -- building your skills, learning new strategies, and ranking up on the single player ladder.
SkyBoats
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Axes and Acres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Ahoy SkyBoat captains! Today is your chance to learn to sail the skies, take control of the winds and discover vast riches up in the clouds. Even better, as you improve your skill at the game, SkyBoats will use your evolving rank to consistently give you a satisfying strategic challenge.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Axes and Acres.
Ranked #8 for Axes and Acres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Axes and Acres at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Axes and Acres on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Axes and Acres.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Axes and Acres on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Axes and Acres.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Axes and Acres on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Axes and Acres on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Axes and Acres.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Axes and Acres on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Axes and Acres.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Axes and Acres on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
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 Axes and Acres on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Axes and Acres.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Axes and Acres on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Axes and Acres.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Toribash
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
Card Hunter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.
Battle for Wesnoth
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient life.
SOVL: Fantasy Warfare
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
SOVL is a ruleset for playing fantasy wargames. It can be played with miniatures on a table or digitally on Steam.
Star Realms
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Star Realms is a hugely popular space combat deckbuilding game. Download and play today (note: base set is required to play online) to find out why Star Realms is the winner of SXSW 2014 Board Game of the Year, 7 Golden Geek Awards from BoardGameGeek, and 2 Dice Tower awards!
Tactical Monsters Rumble Arena
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
Are you ready to RUMMMBLE?
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More from BrainGoodGames
Other recommendable Steam games by BrainGoodGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Solar Settlers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Axes and Acres.
Another title from BrainGoodGames, the studio behind Axes and Acres. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Solar Settlers is a card-driven space exploration strategy game set in the far future. Our sun is on the verge of collapse and so mankind has taken to the stars aboard colony ships to seek out a new home.
Militia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Axes and Acres.
Another title from BrainGoodGames, the studio behind Axes and Acres. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Militia is a tight turn-based strategy game that brings the thrill of victory to single-player. It's simple to pick up, and from the moment you start, you'll be learning and improving -- building your skills, learning new strategies, and ranking up on the single player ladder.
SkyBoats
WHY THIS
Another title from BrainGoodGames, the studio behind Axes and Acres. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Ahoy SkyBoat captains! Today is your chance to learn to sail the skies, take control of the winds and discover vast riches up in the clouds. Even better, as you improve your skill at the game, SkyBoats will use your evolving rank to consistently give you a satisfying strategic challenge.
Minos Strategos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Axes and Acres.
Another title from BrainGoodGames, the studio behind Axes and Acres. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
You are the legendary Minos Strategos (general of the ancient city of Minos)! Command the defenders of the temple by harnessing the power of specific battle formations to push back the Minotaur hordes. Minos Strategos is a quick single-player strategy game with a focus on elegance and clarity.
Rolling in the Reef
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Axes and Acres.
Another title from BrainGoodGames, the studio behind Axes and Acres. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Rolling in the Reef is a dice-driven strategy game about guiding your fishy friends to thrive in their coral home. Dive beneath the waves to build big fish combos, collect valuable artifacts and unlock wild new schools of fish.
Militia 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Axes and Acres.
Another title from BrainGoodGames, the studio behind Axes and Acres. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Militia is back with more bite-sized strategy that evolves to match your skill! Beat back hordes of ruffians that challenge you in Beam and Push World!
Frequently asked about Axes and Acres
- Does Axes and Acres run on Steam Deck?
- Axes and Acres 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 Axes and Acres cost?
- Axes and Acres is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Axes and Acres?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Axes and Acres are Militia 2, Rolling in the Reef, Solar Settlers.
- Who developed Axes and Acres?
- Axes and Acres was developed by BrainGoodGames.
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