Games like Compulse
If Compulse is your kind of game, the closest matches are WANE, Hellscums tactics and Artifice: War Tactics — 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 Compulse: Lead a squad of evolving bio-organic entities in a fast-paced simultaneous tactical roguelite. Predict enemy actions, graft powerful mutations to adapt, and survive through highly replayable strategic runs.
Players who liked Compulse also play
Steam players who put hours into Compulse 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.
WANE
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Top pick for Compulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
WANE is a character-driven tactical roguelite. Lead a band of occultists into Ravelle, a dungeon of dead civilizations reanimated by your past. Keep your party together, survive high-stakes turn-based combat, and bankroll each expedition before your memory wanes.
Hellscums tactics
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Second-strongest match for Compulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Hellscum Tactics features tactical turn-based combat. Party based gameplay with character progression, and dungeon crawling.
Artifice: War Tactics
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Third-strongest match for Compulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
Artifice: War Tactics is a turn-based roguelike where enemies show their next move. Evade, strike, and combo with your champions to flip the battlefield in your favor.
Xenonauts
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Ranked #4 for Compulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
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.
Chains of Freedom
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Ranked #5 for Compulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern European country as you unravel a conspiracy threatening the state. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
Demonschool
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Ranked #6 for Compulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mysterious island.
Warhounds
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Ranked #8 for Compulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
Warhounds is a turn-based tactical game about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action movie vibe, inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance. Recruit unique fighters, upgrade your base, and fight for Africa’s future. Less fake RNG, more true ballistics and lethal tactics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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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 Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Samorost 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
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!
Liquidators
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Chains of Freedom
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern European country as you unravel a conspiracy threatening the state. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
Demonschool
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Compulse.
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mysterious island.
Frequently asked about Compulse
- What games are most similar to Compulse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Compulse are WANE, Hellscums tactics, Artifice: War Tactics.
- Who developed Compulse?
- Compulse was developed by FutuRats.
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 Compulse.
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