Games like Desperados III
If Desperados III is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice and Partisans 1941 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →Desperados III is a story-driven real-time tactics strategy game released in 2020, set in a Wild West scenario and developed by Mimimi Games. Players manage multiple characters with distinct abilities, combining their skills to solve mission challenges while utilizing a non-lethal stealth approach through a zone-based alarm system, with a showdown mode for key confrontations. The game costs $39.99 USD, runs approximately 36-50 hours for completionists, and is classified as playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers highlight how character-ability-combos enable creative solutions, with mission-badge challenges encouraging replayability. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, noting that non-lethal stealth is fully viable and that western-themed maps offer varied tactical scenarios. The zone-based alarm system keeps tension localized throughout engagements. The title holds a 96% positive rating from over 4,200 Steam reviews.
About Desperados III: Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Desperados III.
Top pick for Desperados III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Second-strongest match for Desperados III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Aiko's Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.
Partisans 1941
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Third-strongest match for Desperados III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Partisans 1941 is a real-time tactics game with stealth elements, set on the eastern front of WW II. As an army commander behind enemy lines you gather a group of Partisans to wage guerilla warfare against the German occupants.
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Desperados III.
Ranked #4 for Desperados III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
"Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" is the first strategy game ever to combine a movie-based and story-driven atmosphere of an adventure game with the intellectual challenge of a real time tactic game.In this western-style title, discover a game of strategy and tactics played out in exceptional real time.
Chinese Expeditionary Force - Assault Team
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Desperados III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Chinese Expeditionary Force - Assault Team is a tactical stealth game set in the expedition of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to Burma during World War II. The assault team consists of five characters, each with their own special skills. You can use different strategies to complete the mission.
Commandos: Origins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Ranked #6 for Desperados III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
ALARM! You have been selected for a mission which will shape the fate of the entire world. Witness the very beginning of the legendary elite WWII force in Commandos: Origins. The long-awaited sequel to the Commandos series brings you right back to the foundation of the real-time tactics genre.
Helldorado
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Ranked #7 for Desperados III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
1883, SANTA FE. Peace in this town has been shattered by a shocking kidnapping. Gather your men and ride on a series of challenging missions to stop treacherous, marauding outlaws in this story of vile blackmail and revenge.
Commandos 3 - HD Remaster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Ranked #8 for Desperados III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Fall in, soldier! Commandos 3 - HD Remaster sends you to the relentless and unforgiving battlefields of Europe. Remastered in high definition including reworked 3D models and textures, improved controls and refined UI.
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Desperados III.
Reviewers of Desperados III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Reviewers of Desperados III cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!
Cavern Commandos
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Desperados III cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Inspired by classic platformers like Rick Dangerous, Cavern Commandos offers a challenging gaming experience with numerous weapons, hundreds of foes, and dozens of labyrinthine caverns.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desperados III at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Desperados III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
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.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desperados III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Desperados III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
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.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desperados III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Desperados III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Desperados III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~84% under Desperados III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
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 ~80% under Desperados III on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
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...
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Ultimate Custom Night
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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More from Mimimi Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Mimimi Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Desperados III.
Another title from Mimimi Games, the studio behind Desperados III. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Another title from Mimimi Games, the studio behind Desperados III. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Another title from Mimimi Games, the studio behind Desperados III. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Aiko's Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.
The Last Tinker™: City of Colors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Another title from Mimimi Games, the studio behind Desperados III.
The Last Tinker is a joyous action adventure and definitely no platformer, as there is no jump button. Koru, a boy from the slums of Colortown, must rise and stand against the Bleakness, a dark force intent on wiping out joy. Koru must use color and emotion to restore life to Colortown!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Desperados III.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Aiko's Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.
Commandos 3 - HD Remaster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperados III.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Desperados III.
Fall in, soldier! Commandos 3 - HD Remaster sends you to the relentless and unforgiving battlefields of Europe. Remastered in high definition including reworked 3D models and textures, improved controls and refined UI.
Frequently asked about Desperados III
- Does Desperados III run on Steam Deck?
- Desperados III 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 Desperados III cost?
- Desperados III is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desperados III?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desperados III are Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice, Partisans 1941.
- Who developed Desperados III?
- Desperados III was developed by Mimimi Games and published by THQ Nordic.
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