Games like End State
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to End State for fans of action, strategy, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in End State also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About End State: End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Every Day We Fight
Top pick for End State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Second-strongest match for End State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
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!
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The Last Spell
Third-strongest match for End State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
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.
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Phantom Doctrine
Ranked #4 for End State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.
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Gears Tactics
Ranked #5 for End State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with End State.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Ranked #6 for End State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Tactical Breach Wizards
Ranked #7 for End State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
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Lost Eidolons
Ranked #8 for End State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Reviewers of End State cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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7 Days to Die
Reviewers of End State cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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XCOM® 2
Reviewers of End State cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with End State.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Every Day We Fight
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
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!
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The Last Spell
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
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.
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Tactical Breach Wizards
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
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Lost Eidolons
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
Frequently asked about End State
- Does End State run on Steam Deck?
- End State is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does End State cost?
- End State is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to End State?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside End State are Every Day We Fight, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, The Last Spell.
- Who developed End State?
- End State was developed by Finger Squad.
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 End State.
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