Games like First Strike
If First Strike is your kind of game, the closest matches are DEFCON, ICBM and Wargame: Airland Battle — 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 First Strike: FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Players who liked First Strike also play
Steam players who put hours into First Strike 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.
DEFCON
WHY THIS
Top pick for First Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Strike.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
ICBM
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for First Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with First Strike.
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
Wargame: Airland Battle
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for First Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Strike.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
The Last General
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for First Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with First Strike.
Lead thousands of units in this large scale modern war RTS as you manage economy and logistics, build your war machine, and fight across millions of procedurally generated scenarios, or jump into the battlefield controlling any unit in first or third person at any time.
Wargame: European Escalation
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for First Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Strike.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
ICBM: Escalation
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for First Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with First Strike.
ICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS where you command armies, develop cutting-edge tech, and wield devastating weapons. Conquer enemies with conventional forces or nuclear firepower. With new modes like Standoff and Conquest, the game offers deep strategic layers in a global warfare setting.
Stellar Commanders
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for First Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with First Strike.
Conquer the stars in this straightforward multiplayer real-time strategy game from the creators of First Strike and become a Stellar Commander!
DEFCON VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for First Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Strike.
DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON games in the comfort of your own virtual War Room. Join others and marvel at total global annihilation as nuclear missiles arc over the globe on their path to destruction. Watch Armageddon unfold as everybody dies….
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below First Strike at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under First Strike on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with First Strike.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under First Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with First Strike.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under First Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with First Strike.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under First Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with First Strike.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under First Strike on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Strike.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under First Strike on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with First Strike.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under First Strike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with First Strike.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under First Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with First Strike.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with First Strike.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with First Strike.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with First Strike.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with First Strike.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with First Strike.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with First Strike.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with First Strike.
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!
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More from Blindflug Studios AG
Other recommendable Steam games by Blindflug Studios AG, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ground of Aces
WHY THIS
Another title from Blindflug Studios AG, the studio behind First Strike. Shares Strategy and Simulation with First Strike.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
AIRHEART - Tales of broken Wings
WHY THIS
Another title from Blindflug Studios AG, the studio behind First Strike. Shares Action and Indie with First Strike.
Airheart is a dieselpunk airplane action rogue like game, where every colorful level is built on top of the previous one, all the way up to the stratosphere. Welcome to Granaria, a flying city in the clouds. Meet Amelia - a young pilot and fisherwoman wishing to reach the abundant world's edge.
Cloud Chasers - Journey of Hope
WHY THIS
Another title from Blindflug Studios AG, the studio behind First Strike. Shares Indie with First Strike.
In a dried up world, where death is your destiny, can you survive the struggle?
Stellar Commanders
WHY THIS
Another title from Blindflug Studios AG, the studio behind First Strike. Shares Action and Strategy with First Strike.
Conquer the stars in this straightforward multiplayer real-time strategy game from the creators of First Strike and become a Stellar Commander!
Frequently asked about First Strike
- Does First Strike run on Steam Deck?
- First Strike 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 First Strike cost?
- First Strike is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does First Strike have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — First Strike supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to First Strike?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside First Strike are DEFCON, ICBM, Wargame: Airland Battle.
- Who developed First Strike?
- First Strike was developed by Blindflug Studios AG.
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 First Strike.
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