Games like Puzzle Tactics
If Puzzle Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue's Hexagon, Broilers and Lost In The Open — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and lighthearted. 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 Puzzle Tactics: Puzzle Tactics is a turn-based and grid-based tactics game played in various small levels. You play as the blue team with the goal of defeating the red team's units before losing your own. Later levels are more difficult and introduce more unit types in battle.
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Steam players who put hours into Puzzle Tactics also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Rogue's Hexagon
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Top pick for Puzzle Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
A turn-based puzzle game set in a hexagonal world where you strategically move and throw powerful daggers to solve dozens of puzzles and optional challenges.
Broilers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Puzzle Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Broilers is a turn-based game that resembles chess and similar board games, but only externally. The basis of almost all of the mechanics in Broilers, is selection (breeding). Learn how to breed new species and their characteristics in order to win the online challenge.
Lost In The Open
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Third-strongest match for Puzzle Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
An unexpected assassination attempt leaves you wounded and fleeing across no man's land. To survive in this roguelike, low-fantasy tactical RPG, you must recruit strategically, fight desperately and repent sincerely.
Forge of Gods (RPG)
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Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Ranked #4 for Puzzle Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Puzzle Tactics.
Join the action in this highly addictive multiplayer card strategy RPG “FORGE OF GODS”! Collect and train as many monsters as you can to assemble the greatest team and burst through hordes of enemies in thrilling, addictive and fast-paced game!
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
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Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Ranked #5 for Puzzle Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
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!
Capes
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Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Ranked #6 for Puzzle Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Superheroes clash in this turn based strategy game. Recruit, train, and deploy your team in order to take back the city from the villains that hold it hostage.
Othercide
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Ranked #7 for Puzzle Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
Insidia
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Ranked #8 for Puzzle Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
INSIDIA is a tactical game of turn based duels. Carefully move your team of powerful champions and weave their attacks together to claim victory in the field of battle. Conquer your foes and claim the spoils of the post-apocalyptic world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Puzzle Tactics at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under Puzzle Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under Puzzle Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under Puzzle Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under Puzzle Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
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Priced ~51% under Puzzle Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from Robert Alvarez
Other recommendable Steam games by Robert Alvarez, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dungeon of Zolthan
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Shares a retro mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Puzzle Tactics. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Dungeon of Zolthan is a casual, arcade-style metroidvania platformer where your goal is to defeat Zolthan; a powerful mage that lives inside the dungeon. Using an array of powerups and your own wit and guile, guide your character through Zolthan's Dungeon!
Chessformer
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Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Puzzle Tactics. Shares Strategy with Puzzle Tactics.
Chessformer is a grid-based puzzle platformer with Chess pieces. The goal in each level is to capture the opposing king, who is lazy and never moves, so don't worry about losing any pieces.
Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game
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Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Puzzle Tactics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.
Zolg
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Shares a retro mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Puzzle Tactics. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Zolg is a minimalist top-down shooter where you explore, fight enemies, collect powerups, and defeat bosses.
Kombine
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Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Puzzle Tactics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Kombine is a minimalist puzzle game played on a grid. The goal is to remove all of the blocks that have borders by matching three or more of the same blocks together.
Isotiles 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Puzzle Tactics.
Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Puzzle Tactics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Isotiles 2 is an isometric puzzle game and the sequel to Isotiles. Like the first game, the main goal of each level is to remove all the blue tiles and then get to the exit tile. The game features all new levels and some new tile types as well for more interesting puzzles.
Escape Zolstar
WHY THIS
Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Puzzle Tactics. Shares Indie with Puzzle Tactics.
Escape Zolstar is a metroidvania where you explore, collect powerups, fight enemies, and defeat bosses.
Frequently asked about Puzzle Tactics
- How much does Puzzle Tactics cost?
- Puzzle Tactics is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Puzzle Tactics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Puzzle Tactics are Rogue's Hexagon, Broilers, Lost In The Open.
- Who developed Puzzle Tactics?
- Puzzle Tactics was developed by Robert Alvarez.
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