Games like Ancient Frontier
If Ancient Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows, The Last Spell and Depth of Extinction — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fleet customization is satisfying, challenging and comedic. 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 Ancient Frontier: Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Buy new ships, outfit them with crew and equipment, then deploy and destroy the enemy. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.
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Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier.
Top pick for Ancient Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Steel Shadows is a standalone tactics RPG set in the epic universe of Ancient Frontier. Take command of a rag tag band of pirates and outlaws as you fight your way across the Frontier for treasure and glory. Delve into our latest turn based tactical RPG.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier.
Second-strongest match for Ancient Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Depth of Extinction
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Ancient Frontier.
Third-strongest match for Ancient Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ancient Frontier.
Ranked #4 for Ancient Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Total War: WARHAMMER II
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ancient Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ancient Frontier.
Ranked #6 for Ancient Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
Blackguards
WHY THIS
Shares hex based combat and a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier.
Ranked #7 for Ancient Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
Blackguards 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier.
Ranked #8 for Ancient Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ancient Frontier at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ancient Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Ancient Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Ancient Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Ancient Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Ancient Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ancient Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Ancient Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ancient Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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.
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.
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.
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More from Fair Weather Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Fair Weather Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Bladestar
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier.
Another title from Fair Weather Studios, the studio behind Ancient Frontier.
Bladestar is a sci-fi cinematic action shooter featuring visually rich worlds with potentially endless enemies on each level. Defend the galaxy flying a Manta Starfighter through asteroid, mine, and debris fields while battling pirates, rebels, and aliens.
Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier.
Another title from Fair Weather Studios, the studio behind Ancient Frontier. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Steel Shadows is a standalone tactics RPG set in the epic universe of Ancient Frontier. Take command of a rag tag band of pirates and outlaws as you fight your way across the Frontier for treasure and glory. Delve into our latest turn based tactical RPG.
Hyper Empire
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a funny mood with Ancient Frontier.
Another title from Fair Weather Studios, the studio behind Ancient Frontier. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Play a 4x game in 40 minutes... or less! We streamlined 4x strategy down to a game that captures the fun in a manageable play time. Lead your faction against escalating enemies and expand the reach of your empire. Multiple paths to victory allows for a variety of strategies. Build your empire.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ancient Frontier.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ancient Frontier.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier.
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
Frequently asked about Ancient Frontier
- How much does Ancient Frontier cost?
- Ancient Frontier is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ancient Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ancient Frontier are Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows, The Last Spell, Depth of Extinction.
- Who developed Ancient Frontier?
- Ancient Frontier was developed by Fair Weather Studios.
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