Games like Boiler & Blood
If Boiler & Blood is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Rail, IPS 13: All Signals Lost and Ironfront Express — 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 Boiler & Blood: Build and command a dieselpunk war train, manage its crew, and wield forbidden sorcery in a real-time-with-pause tactical roguelite. Destroy the enemy command train before the pursuing army catches you.
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Dark Rail
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Top pick for Boiler & Blood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
Turn-based management roguelike. Command the Inquisition and rule an industrial city on the empire’s edge. Use your train to meet prisoner shipment quotas by hunting heretics and slaying magical beasts. Produce supplies, contain revolt, and sacrifice prisoners to stop the madness.
IPS 13: All Signals Lost
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Second-strongest match for Boiler & Blood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Boiler & Blood.
Take command of the massive VOD(Vehicle of Destruction) and journey across planet Gaiganthra with your IPS(Inter-Planetary Squad)-13 crew to uncover the mystery of humans there. Be prepared for the worse and ready to fight. Upgrade your VOD, hire new crew factions, to be the ultimate War Machine.
Ironfront Express
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Third-strongest match for Boiler & Blood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Boiler & Blood.
Upgrade your engine’s arsenal in this bullet hell, tower defense roguelite featuring the most heavily armored locomotive in existence. Engineer and command the Ironfront Express in a unique take on lane defense where you upgrade with specialized turrets, drones, and tactical abilities.
SOG: Vietnam
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Ranked #4 for Boiler & Blood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
Head to Vietnam as a lone SOG operative. Gear up, upgrade your skills, and explore the danger-filled jungles. Complete the missions assigned by your country and eliminate enemies using napalm and artillery in a brutal, tactical, turn-based 2D roguelite that does not forgive mistakes!
Submarine Homesick Blues
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Ranked #5 for Boiler & Blood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
A real-time submarine management and survival game with tactical pause, where you manage crew, systems, and resources under constant pressure.
Drill Crew
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Ranked #6 for Boiler & Blood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
Work together to operate a giant underground drilling machine. Mine valuable resources, survive unexpected machine failures, upgrade your machine, and make it back to the surface before everything falls apart.
Space Planet Explorer
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Ranked #7 for Boiler & Blood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
One wrong jump ends the mission. Explore 76 real worlds, from Mercury to TRAPPIST-1e, built from NASA data and astronomical research. Manage scarce resources, survey distant worlds, and search for humanity's new home in a science-driven space roguelite where every run could be your last.
Reclaim The Sea
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Ranked #8 for Boiler & Blood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a pirate fantasy world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events. Command your pirate crew, upgrade your ship and make tactical decisions to beat the boss and save the world… or die trying.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Boiler & Blood.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boiler & Blood.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Boiler & Blood.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Boiler & Blood.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Boiler & Blood.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Boiler & Blood.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Boiler & Blood.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Boiler & Blood
- What games are most similar to Boiler & Blood?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Boiler & Blood are Dark Rail, IPS 13: All Signals Lost, Ironfront Express.
- Who developed Boiler & Blood?
- Boiler & Blood was developed by Critics Arcade.
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