Games like Commands & Colors: Ancients
If Commands & Colors: Ancients is your kind of game, the closest matches are KARDS - The WW2 Card Game, Ogre and Tabletop Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ancient warfare tactics matter, challenging and tense. 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 Commands & Colors: Ancients: Hexwar Games has partnered with GMT Games to bring you a digital version of Commands & Colors: Ancients the board game. The game allows players to portray important engagements of ancient history. The battles focus on the historical deployment of forces and important terrain features on the scale of the game system.
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KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Top pick for Commands & Colors: Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
KARDS, The World War II Card Game, combines traditional CCG gameplay with innovative mechanics inspired by classic strategy games and real battlefield tactics. Take command and challenge other players in grand-scale warfare on the ground, air, or seas.
Ogre
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Second-strongest match for Commands & Colors: Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".
Tabletop Simulator
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Third-strongest match for Commands & Colors: Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!
Axis & Allies 1942 Online
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Ranked #4 for Commands & Colors: Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Play the classic board game, Axis & Allies 1942 2nd Edition! Act as WWII powers in a turn-based strategy game that fits your screen and schedule— get notified on your turn and command armies at your own pace! Team up with friends, challenge the world’s top players, or go solo vs. A.I.
Ultimate General: Civil War
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Ranked #5 for Commands & Colors: Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical real time strategy war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history - the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
Root
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Ranked #6 for Commands & Colors: Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
Second Front
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Ranked #7 for Commands & Colors: Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Second Front is a tactical WWII turn-based strategy game. Craft & share your own scenarios and maps or use your strategic prowess in 48 scenarios set in iconic locations. Command over 40 types of infantry and 216 tanks, vehicles and guns. An infinite tactical sandbox experience.
Hex of Steel
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Ranked #8 for Commands & Colors: Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Hex of Steel is a refreshing WWII wargame covering all fronts featuring a certain amount of original mechanics. Fight in solo against finally a decent AI throughout Europe, Africa or the Pacific, or against a friend in the cross-platform PBEM or real time multiplayer. Coop is also an option!
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100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
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Landfall Archives
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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!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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Tank Battle: Normandy
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: Ancients. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Land your troops on the beaches of northern France, lay bridges to cross flooded enemy defences, avoid tanktraps, clear the area of dangerous minefields, overcome the enemy and claim the beachhead for the Allies!
Civil War: Bull Run 1861
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Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: Ancients. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Bull Run recreates the first major battle of the American Civil War between the Union and Confederate armies. Take command of an Union army of Northeast Virginia or the Confederate army of Potomac and Shenandoah and engage in the largest battle fought on American soil to date.
Battles of the Ancient World
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Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: Ancients. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
The ‘Battles of the Ancient World’ game system is a tactical simulation of some of the greatest and most important battles from 1457 B.C. to 378 A.D.. Each scenario features one of these great battles and players may play as either side. The game has been designed to ensure maximum playability and historical accuracy, in that order.
Wellington's Victory
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: Ancients. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
At dawn on June 18th, the torrential rain which had soaked the Belgium countryside the previous day began tapering off.
Tank Battle: 1944
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: Ancients. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Instantly get involved in the action by joining the Allied invasion of Europe during the Second World War. Take command of an American battle group during WW2 in this turn based strategy wargame and help liberate Europe from the evil Axis power-base!
1775: Rebellion
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: Ancients. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Command the armies of the British Redcoats, English Loyalists, German Hessians, American Regulars, Patriots, French Regulars and Native Americans to decide the fate of the Americas!
Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge
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Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: Ancients. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge is a Decision Games card game that recreates the famous World War Two battle (16-31 Dec 1944) in which the German Army mounted a surprise attack on the thin U.S. forces deployed in the Ardennes region.
Civil War: 1863
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Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: Ancients. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: Ancients.
Relive iconic battles of the American Civil War. Take command of both the Union and Confederate forces in this exciting turn-based strategy game.
Frequently asked about Commands & Colors: Ancients
- What games are most similar to Commands & Colors: Ancients?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Commands & Colors: Ancients are KARDS - The WW2 Card Game, Ogre, Tabletop Simulator.
- Who developed Commands & Colors: Ancients?
- Commands & Colors: Ancients was developed by HexWar Games.
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