Games like Mote
If Mote is your kind of game, the closest matches are Company Captain: Westashes, Chaos Front and SableSyn Protocol — 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 Mote: Mote is a hard sci-fi, squad-based, turn-based tactical roguelike played on a hexes. Create an species with unique abilities, senses, and combat styles. Command a squad as you explore distant systems, encounter new societies, and choose which factions to help, and which to betray.
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Company Captain: Westashes
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Top pick for Mote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.
Command a mercenary Free Company in a brutal, dynamic medieval world. Navigate the overworld, manage your roster, and fight unforgiving hex-grid tactical battles where factions and characters remember your actions and every mercenary's death is permanent... or not...
Chaos Front
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Second-strongest match for Mote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.
A turn-based space mecha mercenary game. You can recruit pilots and captains with varying stories and skills, buy and modify spaceships, mecha, artillery, and fighters, take missions, participate in battles between Galactic Powers, change the situations, and experience different stories.
SableSyn Protocol
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Third-strongest match for Mote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mote.
Engage enemies in turn-based battles on an 8 X 5 grid where each team controls their half of the battlefield. Each battle is a test of planning and execution. Success depends on managing your resources and choosing the right tradeoffs at the right moment.
Raise the banners
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Ranked #4 for Mote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mote.
An unforgiving medieval fantasy RPG of map conquest, moral choices, party combat, and army-scale sieges. It's time to raise the banners!
Kriv Solas
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Ranked #5 for Mote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.
A turn-based take on the extraction fantasy RPG. Manage your resources, gather loot, and complete your expedition. If you fail to return, no treasure will matter.
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit
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Ranked #6 for Mote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Mote.
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit is the grand finale to the tactical RPG trilogy. Command a massive cast of returning heroes in the series’ most strategic entry yet. Master evolved turn-based combat, guide your army through tactical challenges, and witness the conclusion to every character's story.
Forsworn
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Ranked #7 for Mote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.
Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning.
Cell Command
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Ranked #8 for Mote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mote.
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.
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 Mote.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mote.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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 Mote.
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.
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 Mote.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mote.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mote.
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.
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Frequently asked about Mote
- What games are most similar to Mote?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mote are Company Captain: Westashes, Chaos Front, SableSyn Protocol.
- Who developed Mote?
- Mote was developed by Matthew Roop-Kharasch and published by Max Amusments LLC.
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 Mote.
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