Games like Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows
If Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ancient Frontier, Depth of Extinction and Mortal Glory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its moody dirty space aesthetic, rpg like progression systems and atmospheric. 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 Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows: Steel Shadows is a standalone tactics RPG set in the epic universe of Ancient Frontier. Take command of a rag tag band of pirates and outlaws as you fight your way across the Frontier for treasure and glory. Delve into our latest turn based tactical RPG.
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Ancient Frontier
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Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Top pick for Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Buy new ships, outfit them with crew and equipment, then deploy and destroy the enemy. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.
Depth of Extinction
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Second-strongest match for Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
Mortal Glory
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Third-strongest match for Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Mortal Glory is a fantasy-themed tactical roguelike game about recruiting a team of gladiators and pitting them against brutal competition in a blood-soaked tournament. Train your gladiators, find a legendary sword, learn ancient spells, recruit a celebrity, cheat - do whatever it takes to bring glory to your name!
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
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Shares a dark mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Ranked #4 for Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
The Last Spell
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Shares an immersive mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Ranked #5 for Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Gears Tactics
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Shares turn based tactics and a dark mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Ranked #6 for Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
The Banner Saga 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Ranked #7 for Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards.
MASSIVE CHALICE
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Ranked #8 for Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Reviewers of Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows 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.
XCOM® 2
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Shares turn based tactics and an atmospheric mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Reviewers of Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
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.
Ancient Frontier
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Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Reviewers of Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Buy new ships, outfit them with crew and equipment, then deploy and destroy the enemy. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows at current Steam store prices.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
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 Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
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...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~67% under Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~67% under Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
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Priced ~67% under Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
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?
Nubby's Number Factory
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Priced ~67% under Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
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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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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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NGU IDLE
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Ancient Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Another title from Fair Weather Studios, the studio behind Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Buy new ships, outfit them with crew and equipment, then deploy and destroy the enemy. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.
Bladestar
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Another title from Fair Weather Studios, the studio behind Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Bladestar is a sci-fi cinematic action shooter featuring visually rich worlds with potentially endless enemies on each level. Defend the galaxy flying a Manta Starfighter through asteroid, mine, and debris fields while battling pirates, rebels, and aliens.
Hyper Empire
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Shares ship customization, resource management and a challenging mood with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Another title from Fair Weather Studios, the studio behind Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows. Shares Strategy with Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows.
Play a 4x game in 40 minutes... or less! We streamlined 4x strategy down to a game that captures the fun in a manageable play time. Lead your faction against escalating enemies and expand the reach of your empire. Multiple paths to victory allows for a variety of strategies. Build your empire.
Frequently asked about Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows
- How much does Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows cost?
- Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows are Ancient Frontier, Depth of Extinction, Mortal Glory.
- Who developed Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows?
- Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows was developed by Fair Weather Studios.
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