Games like Urban Strife
If Urban Strife is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, Dead State: Reanimated and Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its base management feels meaningful, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Urban Strife: Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Top pick for Urban Strife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Dead State: Reanimated
WHY THIS
Shares morale system and an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Second-strongest match for Urban Strife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Third-strongest match for Urban Strife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.
Dreadlands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Ranked #4 for Urban Strife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
Welcome to Dreadlands! A perilous landscape brimming with potential in the form of Glow. Command one of 3 unique factions in this turn-based tactical RPG and play through their campaigns, be it solo or Co-Op, or battle it out in PvP. So far no one has tamed the Dreadlands. Will you be the first?
Every Day We Fight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Ranked #5 for Urban Strife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urban Strife.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Ranked #6 for Urban Strife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urban Strife.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Ranked #7 for Urban Strife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
For The King
WHY THIS
Shares procedural encounters and a contemplative mood with Urban Strife.
Ranked #8 for Urban Strife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Urban Strife cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Urban Strife cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Urban Strife.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Reviewers of Urban Strife cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Urban Strife.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Fallout 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Reviewers of Urban Strife cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Urban Strife.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a challenging mood with Urban Strife.
Reviewers of Urban Strife cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an immersive mood with Urban Strife.
Reviewers of Urban Strife cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Urban Strife.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Xenonauts 2
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an immersive mood with Urban Strife.
Reviewers of Urban Strife cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urban Strife.
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
Jagged Alliance 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Urban Strife.
Reviewers of Urban Strife cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Urban Strife.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Urban Strife at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~82% under Urban Strife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Urban Strife.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Urban Strife on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Urban Strife.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Urban Strife on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Urban Strife.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Urban Strife on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Urban Strife.
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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Urban Strife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Urban Strife.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Urban Strife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Urban Strife.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Urban Strife on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Urban Strife.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Urban Strife.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Urban Strife.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Urban Strife.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
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.
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Strife.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Strife.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Every Day We Fight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urban Strife.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Urban Strife.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Frequently asked about Urban Strife
- Does Urban Strife work on Steam Deck?
- Urban Strife is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Urban Strife cost?
- Urban Strife is listed on Steam at 27.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Urban Strife?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Urban Strife are Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, Dead State: Reanimated, Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG.
- Who developed Urban Strife?
- Urban Strife was developed by White Pond Games and published by MicroProse Software.
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