Games like Lawless
If Lawless is your kind of game, the closest matches are Toy War - Cannon, Drag'N Dungeon and Stick Wars: The Laneborn — 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 Lawless: Lawless is a top-down 2D urban crime survival management game. Hustle as a new gangster—extort civilians, fight rivals, loot crates, and take jobs. Renovate buildings into grow houses, crew quarters, or gyms. Petty crime, sales, gang expansion: build your empire on one map. Loud moves draw heat.
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Toy War - Cannon
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Top pick for Lawless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lawless.
Control a toy сannon. Shoot the toy soldiers with the toy gun just like you did when you were a kid.
Drag'N Dungeon
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Second-strongest match for Lawless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Lawless.
Drag'N Dungeon is a grid-free tactical auto-battler where every drop counts. Trapped in a mysterious dungeon, escape by unlocking fierce allies and picking the right team for each challenge. Plan smart, drag fast, and escape this voxel dungeon.
Stick Wars: The Laneborn
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lawless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lawless.
A 2D stickman strategy game on three lanes: you don’t micro troops — you decide gold, deployments, and upgrades. Ally champions, lane-swapping bosses, and a campaign that only gets tougher.
Chaos Rune : Heroes
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Ranked #4 for Lawless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lawless.
Chaos Rune Heroes is a lightweight roguelike game with fast-paced, turn-based + real-time mechanics. You must survive within a limited time and complete specific challenges to advance to the next round. Get ready for this chaotic brawl!
Pathways Lost: Reclaim
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Ranked #5 for Lawless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lawless.
Send customised troops and your powerful mech into battle in this strategic auto battler. Spawn units, equip gear, unlock skills and reclaim lost worlds. Optimize your army and master ever increasing challenges. Fast-paced matches, endless depth.
Nexus Wars
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Ranked #6 for Lawless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lawless.
Dive into Nexus Wars, a relentless sci-fi odyssey 4,970 years in the future. Trapped in a 24-hour mind-swap loop as a Frame, survive dire danger, explore a hostile galaxy, and unravel the HyperNet’s mystery. Nine factions, epic lore, and a brutal GAME MASTER await. Will you break free or fall?
Seed World
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Ranked #7 for Lawless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lawless.
Seed World is a game that aims to combine automation, conveyor belts, and level progression. The game simplifies automation 'construction' into a series of progress bars, with each progress producing or consuming resources, and players need to manage resources.
Live Hard, Die Hard
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Ranked #8 for Lawless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lawless.
Busy but Addictive! This BATTLE x MEDICAL Counter-Invasion Real-Time Strategy is like nothing you've ever seen! An army of aliens is here to invade the Earth! Show the Earth-style greeting to those unwanted visitors who lounge around our grounds! Lead your troops to extinguish zillions of aliens!
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 Lawless.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lawless.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lawless.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lawless.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lawless.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lawless.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lawless.
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.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lawless.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Lawless
- What games are most similar to Lawless?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lawless are Toy War - Cannon, Drag'N Dungeon, Stick Wars: The Laneborn.
- Who developed Lawless?
- Lawless was developed by MA HONG FEI.
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 Lawless.
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