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Games like Subterfuge

If Subterfuge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Feudums, Solium Infernum and Imperiums: The Americas — 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.

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About Subterfuge: A week-long multiplayer game of strategy, diplomacy, and betrayal. Schedule moves for hours in the future, forge fragile alliances, and time the perfect backstab as events unfold in real time. Coming to Steam Early Access with mobile cross-play and a player pool running since 2015.

2026StrategyIndieEarly AccessWindows · macOSby Secret Plan
Subterfuge — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Subterfuge 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.

  1. Feudums

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Subterfuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Subterfuge.

    Lead your noble house through brutal wars, shifting allegiances and economic strife in an asynchronous multiplayer 4X strategy. Shape the narrative with or against real players in a medieval world where diplomacy isn't binding, there is NO pay-to-win, and only strategy determines your legacy.

    2026StrategySimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  2. Solium Infernum

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Subterfuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Subterfuge.

    Take the Infernal Throne in this hellish turn-based grand strategy game. The Prince of Darkness has vanished, leaving Archfiends to conspire: muster your legions while intoning dark sorceries, devilish schemes, and machiavellian plots. Who will be the new ruler of Hell and ascend the Throne?

    2024StrategyIndie39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Imperiums: The Americas

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Subterfuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Subterfuge.

    Guide your people across generations in the pre-Columbian Americas. Build a lasting civilization through trade, diplomacy, culture, and war in this historical turn-based 4X grand strategy game.

    StrategySteam ↗
  4. Europa Universalis IV

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Subterfuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Subterfuge.

    Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

    2013StrategySimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. A Game of Thrones: The Board Game - Digital Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Subterfuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Subterfuge.

    A Game of Thrones: The Board Game – Digital Edition is the digital adaptation of the top-selling strategy board game from Fantasy Flight Games.

    2020Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Subterfuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Subterfuge.

    In Dominions 6 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to old dragons or an enormous tree. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.

    2024Strategy44.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Subterfuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Subterfuge.

    In Dominions 5 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.

    2017StrategyIndie39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Battle of Polytopia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Subterfuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Subterfuge.

    Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Subterfuge.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Subterfuge.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

    2015AdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Subterfuge.

    The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Samsara Room

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Subterfuge.

    You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Subterfuge.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Subterfuge

Does Subterfuge have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Subterfuge supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Subterfuge?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Subterfuge are Feudums, Solium Infernum, Imperiums: The Americas.
Who developed Subterfuge?
Subterfuge was developed by Secret Plan.

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 Subterfuge.

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