Games like Forged Battalion
If Forged Battalion is your kind of game, the closest matches are 8-Bit Armies, 8-Bit Hordes and 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its faction customization feels limitless, 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 →About Forged Battalion: Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
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8-Bit Armies
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Top pick for Forged Battalion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.
8-Bit Hordes
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Second-strongest match for Forged Battalion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!
9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Third-strongest match for Forged Battalion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forged Battalion.
Ranked #4 for Forged Battalion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Forged Battalion.
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Forged Battalion.
Ranked #5 for Forged Battalion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
Act of Aggression – Reboot Edition brings the techno-thriller RTS game Act of Aggression to a higher level. The Reboot Edition offers a full gameplay overhaul in skirmish mode against the AI and in your multiplayer battles.
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Forged Battalion.
Ranked #6 for Forged Battalion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!
Empires Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Forged Battalion.
Ranked #7 for Forged Battalion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
An exciting free-to-play Real Time Strategy game set in medieval times. Uniquely designed factions, customization options, singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay. Gather resources, raise an army and lead your civilization to victory in a classic RTS, brought to the modern age.
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forged Battalion.
Ranked #8 for Forged Battalion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Supreme Commander
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Forged Battalion.
Reviewers of Forged Battalion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
WARZONE
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Forged Battalion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
WARZONE is a tactical turn-based war game which requires a chess level of logical thinking and which provides an entertainment comparable to that of a tank shooter.
Grey Goo
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forged Battalion.
Reviewers of Forged Battalion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Reviewers of Forged Battalion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
Command & Conquer and Red Alert are both remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members. Includes all 3 expansions, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus footage gallery, and over 7 hours of remastered music.
守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Forged Battalion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.
8-Bit Armies
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Reviewers of Forged Battalion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.
Earth 2150 Trilogy
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Forged Battalion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forged Battalion at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forged Battalion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forged Battalion.
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 ~50% under Forged Battalion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forged Battalion.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forged Battalion on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
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 ~50% under Forged Battalion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forged Battalion.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Forged Battalion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forged Battalion.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forged Battalion on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Forged Battalion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forged Battalion.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forged Battalion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forged Battalion.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Indie with Forged Battalion.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forged Battalion.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
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 and Simulation with Forged Battalion.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forged Battalion.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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More from Petroglyph
Other recommendable Steam games by Petroglyph, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forged Battalion.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind Forged Battalion. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind Forged Battalion. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
Command & Conquer and Red Alert are both remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members. Includes all 3 expansions, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus footage gallery, and over 7 hours of remastered music.
The Great War: Western Front™
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forged Battalion.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind Forged Battalion. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.
Grey Goo
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forged Battalion.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind Forged Battalion. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
8-Bit Armies
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind Forged Battalion. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.
Conan Unconquered
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forged Battalion.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind Forged Battalion. Shares Strategy with Forged Battalion.
From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.
9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind Forged Battalion. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.
8-Bit Hordes
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Forged Battalion.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind Forged Battalion. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forged Battalion.
From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!
Frequently asked about Forged Battalion
- Does Forged Battalion run on Steam Deck?
- Forged Battalion 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 Forged Battalion cost?
- Forged Battalion is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Forged Battalion have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Forged Battalion supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Forged Battalion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forged Battalion are 8-Bit Armies, 8-Bit Hordes, 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far.
- Who developed Forged Battalion?
- Forged Battalion was developed by Petroglyph.
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