Games like Battleboard
If Battleboard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chaos Reborn, Fantasy General II and Civil War: Battle of Petersburg — 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 Battleboard: Build. Muster. Rule the hex. A turn-based hex wargame where your buildings drip-feed an army of unit cards — deploy them across six biomes, master four asymmetric factions, and let the dice decide who holds the line.
Players who liked Battleboard also play
Steam players who put hours into Battleboard 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.
Chaos Reborn
WHY THIS
Top pick for Battleboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
Fantasy General II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Battleboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Battleboard.
The fantasy wargaming classic is back! Lead powerful heroes and mighty armies into battle in this critically acclaimed turn-based strategy milestone. Level up and train your units and guide them through a gripping story campaign to decide the fate of a world on the brink of destruction.
Civil War: Battle of Petersburg
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Battleboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Battleboard.
Crush the Confederates near Petersburg and Richmond in 1864. Bring peace to a nation divided.
Heroes of Normandie
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Ranked #4 for Battleboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Battleboard.
Take one of the most modern, fun and engaging board games created in recent years. Match it with cutting-edge technology. Add a ridiculously well-crafted art style and a ton of extra content. This is the recipe to one of the most thrilling, charming and captivating strategy games you will ever find.
Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game
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Ranked #5 for Battleboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Lock 'n Load Tactical is fast and Furious tactical combat that is fast to learn. In LnLT you get squads, weapon teams, armored vehicles, fixed-wing aircraft, and, in the modern-era games, helicopters. Individuals such as Leaders, Medics, Snipers, Chaplains, Advisors, and, of course, Heroes.
Raiders of the North Sea
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Ranked #6 for Battleboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
It's Raiding Season! Plunder your way to Viking adventure in the digital adaptation of the award-winning worker-placement board game!
Second Front
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Ranked #7 for Battleboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Second Front is a tactical WWII turn-based strategy game. Craft & share your own scenarios and maps or use your strategic prowess in 48 scenarios set in iconic locations. Command over 40 types of infantry and 216 tanks, vehicles and guns. An infinite tactical sandbox experience.
Warbands: Bushido
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Ranked #8 for Battleboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Warbands:Bushido is a miniatures board game arena with cards, miniatures, dice and beautiful terrains to fight on, with both multiplayer battles boardgamers are used to, and challenging single-player scenarios.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battleboard.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battleboard.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battleboard.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battleboard.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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 and Indie with Battleboard.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Battleboard.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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More from ioStudios
Other recommendable Steam games by ioStudios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Biosphere Simulator
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Another title from ioStudios, the studio behind Battleboard. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Biosphere Simulator is a planetary god game sandbox where you guide a dead volcanic world through billions of years of evolution. Seed life, shape ecosystems, unleash cataclysms, and watch civilizations rise from primordial microbes to spacefaring societies.
Space Planet Explorer
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Another title from ioStudios, the studio behind Battleboard. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
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.
Cozy Airways
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Another title from ioStudios, the studio behind Battleboard. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Build the coziest airline in the skies. Open routes across a storybook world, decorate your lounge, look after passengers with stories of their own, and grow a tiny startup into a global airline. A warm, low-stress tycoon, flown with your co-pilot Sky.
The Rug Racket
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Another title from ioStudios, the studio behind Battleboard. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Inherit a rundown rug-cleaning shop and master a satisfying craft. Dust, wash, rinse and revive rugs one stain at a time. Build a reputation, keep the lights on, and squirm out from under the mob family that owns your debt. Every rug's a small win, and every tribute payment says you're not free yet.
Kung Fu: The Devil's Temple Awaits
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Another title from ioStudios, the studio behind Battleboard. Shares Indie with Battleboard.
Fight your way up the five floors of the Devil's Temple in a pixel-art beat-'em-up built on arcade classics. Punches, kicks, grabs, weapon pickups and Ki-Burst combos — alone or in local 2-player co-op. Reach the top. Take back the temple.
Divine Ascendancy
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Another title from ioStudios, the studio behind Battleboard. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Command a mortal civilization as a god of Olympus. Build through four ages, unleash 34 miracles, hold the line on the Road of Doubt, slay the dragon — and complete the Ascension Ritual to claim true godhood.
Null Keeper
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Another title from ioStudios, the studio behind Battleboard. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
Run an evil asteroid base in the void. Dig, claim, and build your lair, summon entities through Warp Rifts, and repel the Vanguard raids hammering your Void Core — while MALACHAR, your AI narrator, judges your every move.
Crownbane
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Another title from ioStudios, the studio behind Battleboard. Shares Strategy and Indie with Battleboard.
One Crown. Endless War. Command a city in an ever-running war between four nations — build deep, muster a veteran army that survives between battles, and tip a war no one can win alone. Free to play, right in your browser or on desktop.
Frequently asked about Battleboard
- What games are most similar to Battleboard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Battleboard are Chaos Reborn, Fantasy General II, Civil War: Battle of Petersburg.
- Who developed Battleboard?
- Battleboard was developed by ioStudios.
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 Battleboard.
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