Games like Bad North: Jotunn Edition
If Bad North: Jotunn Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lord Of Island, Eternal Mist and Warbound — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cute but brutal aesthetics, difficulty scaling and random island generation. 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 →Bad North: Jotunn Edition is a real-time tactics game with roguelite elements released in 2018 by Plausible Concept and Oskar Stålberg, published by Raw Fury, available at 14.99 USD. Players command squads of Viking warriors across procedurally generated islands, defending their kingdom against incoming waves of invaders. The game features unit specialization and tactical positioning as core mechanics. Reviewers highlight the game's atmospheric presentation and the contrast between its whimsical aesthetic and brutal combat. Players describe the gameplay as simple but addictive, with difficulty scaling and random island generation keeping sessions fresh. The title runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 94 percent positive rating from over 5,300 Steam reviews.
About Bad North: Jotunn Edition: Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.
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Lord Of Island
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Top pick for Bad North: Jotunn Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Defend your islands with real-time strategy and tactics! Lead as a Lord, build armies from diverse races, and defeat invading enemies. In a minimalist world, utilize each island’s unique design to rewrite the fate of your people and the destiny of your lands.
Eternal Mist
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Second-strongest match for Bad North: Jotunn Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
A real-time tactical game about making the right decisions with incomplete information. Choose your battles, prepare your squads, and adapt on the fly when enemy waves unfold in unexpected ways.
Warbound
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Third-strongest match for Bad North: Jotunn Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Build a battlefield that evolves from Stone age battles into futuristic mechanised warfare. Demo is LIVE
Panda's Village
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Ranked #4 for Bad North: Jotunn Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Panda's Village is a real-time strategy and survival game, where you build and upgrade houses, defenses, and stores, fight fierce monkeys, purchase and upgrade weapons and magic and customize your panda. Your goal is to save the village's Capitol at all costs! If you die, you start over.
More War: Iron and Arcane
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Ranked #5 for Bad North: Jotunn Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
An incremental war game where technology and magic clash. Gather resources, unlock units and upgrades, and grow from small battles to massive wars.
Temple Siege TD
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Ranked #6 for Bad North: Jotunn Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Relaxing 3D fantasy tower defense game with an RPG/MOBA vibe: Hero-towers, distinct roles, unique abilities, powerful combos and rising challenge.
Intercept Line
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Ranked #7 for Bad North: Jotunn Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
You command Ukraine's air defense. Every night — missiles and drone swarms, and always fewer interceptors than targets. By day it's your turn: deep strikes past enemy radars. And when orders aren't enough — take the stick yourself.
Automatrons - Tower Defense
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Ranked #8 for Bad North: Jotunn Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Join our machine legion to conquer the world.
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Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Bad North: Jotunn Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
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
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Shares procedural generation with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Priced ~67% under Bad North: Jotunn Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
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.
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Priced ~53% under Bad North: Jotunn Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
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.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Bad North: Jotunn Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Bad North: Jotunn Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
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
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Shares procedural generation with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Priced ~58% under Bad North: Jotunn Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
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
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Priced ~47% under Bad North: Jotunn Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
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...
How to Fish
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Priced ~67% under Bad North: Jotunn Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
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Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
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.
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Minion Masters
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
Bloons TD Battles 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
One-armed robber
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bad North: Jotunn Edition.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
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Frequently asked about Bad North: Jotunn Edition
- Is Bad North: Jotunn Edition verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Bad North: Jotunn Edition is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Bad North: Jotunn Edition cost?
- Bad North: Jotunn Edition is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bad North: Jotunn Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bad North: Jotunn Edition are Lord Of Island, Eternal Mist, Warbound.
- Who developed Bad North: Jotunn Edition?
- Bad North: Jotunn Edition was developed by Plausible Concept, Oskar Stålberg and published by Raw Fury.
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