Games like Red Solstice 2: Survivors
If Red Solstice 2: Survivors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wolves Online, Starlorn: Rise of the Awakened and Doomsday × Ghost in the Shell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayability through different builds, tactical positioning matters 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 →Red Solstice 2: Survivors is a real-time tactics game that blends strategy RPG elements with third-person shooter combat in a science fiction setting. Developed by Ironward and published by 505 Games, it released in 2021 at $14.99. Players command squads of up to eight operatives across procedurally generated battlefields, managing unit upgrades and researching new capabilities between missions. The game runs Playable on Steam Deck according to Valve's verification. Reviewers highlight the tactical positioning and the replayability offered through diverse class builds. Players describe the experience as challenging and immersive, with multiplayer interactions that blend tactical coordination with lighter moments. The title holds a 78% positive rating from over 1,100 Steam reviews.
About Red Solstice 2: Survivors: Sequel to the best-seller The Red Solstice. Plan your strategy and infiltrate a real-time tactical battlefield - alone or with up to 7 squad members. Can you demonstrate the combat prowess to survive and secure a future for humanity?
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Wolves Online
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Top pick for Red Solstice 2: Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Werewolf is a role-playing and strategy game where you play a role that can be a villager, a werewolf, or a special role. Bluff, logic, and stealth will be your best weapons for surviving... or eliminating others.
Starlorn: Rise of the Awakened
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Second-strongest match for Red Solstice 2: Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
A persistent multiplayer space game of trade, combat, and exploration. Upgrade your ship with powerful devices, deploy mines and drones, colonize planets, and attempt to unravel the mysteries of the universe in a living galaxy shaped by every player's actions.
Doomsday × Ghost in the Shell
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Shares multiplayer co op with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Third-strongest match for Red Solstice 2: Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Fight the Posthuman crisis in the Ghost in the Shell collab!
Captain Meow
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Ranked #4 for Red Solstice 2: Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
FPS RPG Action Adventure
Tachyon Wars
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Ranked #5 for Red Solstice 2: Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Tachyon Wars is a sci-fi real-time space strategy game. It introduces seriously deep gameplay with an emphasis on fleet control. Open space to explore, large-scale battles, crafty AI. All of it is well seasoned with novel real-time game mechanics.
SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES
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Ranked #6 for Red Solstice 2: Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
"SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES" blends high-quality Three-Lane Tower Defense with Reverse Tower Defense gameplay. Command your units in a thrilling narrative reminiscent of a StarCraft and Plants Vs. Zombies fusion! Your choices will forge the path to victory—or defeat.
Red Sea
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Ranked #7 for Red Solstice 2: Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Red Sea is an intense Real-time Tactics game where you control a small team of vigilantes in increasingly challenging battles. It features a Scriptable Tactics system that mixes auto-battling with manual overrides and has a ton of powerful ability interactions to discover.
Star Shift Origins
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Ranked #8 for Red Solstice 2: Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Star Shift Origins tells the story of the first crew of the Dauntless. Trapped in an alternate reality and on the run, the crew desperately searches for answers while being hunted by the relentless Earth Systems Alliance (ESA).
Reviewers mention these as similar to Red Solstice 2: Survivors
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Phoenix Point
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Shares an immersive mood with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Reviewers of Red Solstice 2: Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
XCOM® 2
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Shares an immersive mood with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Reviewers of Red Solstice 2: Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
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.
Satellite Reign
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Shares an immersive mood with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Reviewers of Red Solstice 2: Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
HELLDIVERS™ 2
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Reviewers of Red Solstice 2: Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
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Reviewers of Red Solstice 2: Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Red Solstice 2: Survivors at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Red Solstice 2: Survivors on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Red Solstice 2: Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Red Solstice 2: Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
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 Red Solstice 2: Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
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 Red Solstice 2: Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
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.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Red Solstice 2: Survivors on Steam right now.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~67% under Red Solstice 2: Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
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.
Brotato
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Priced ~67% under Red Solstice 2: Survivors on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
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!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
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More from Ironward
Other recommendable Steam games by Ironward, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Red Solstice
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Shares an immersive mood with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Another title from Ironward, the studio behind Red Solstice 2: Survivors. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
Solstice Chronicles: MIA
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Shares a challenging mood with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Another title from Ironward, the studio behind Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
In this 2-player twin-stick shooter, use a friendly drone for a game-changing abilities. Survive waves, upgrade, and uncover the mystery in this cooperative, action-packed experience.
Atre: Dominance Wars
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Another title from Ironward, the studio behind Red Solstice 2: Survivors. Shares Strategy with Red Solstice 2: Survivors.
Fantasy kingdom builder with god powers and turn-based tactical combat. Build thriving settlements, forge artifacts, command armies with heroes, and ascend from sorcerer to god - wielding spells powerful enough to reshape the world itself. Betray your allies or be betrayed. Only one can ascend.
Frequently asked about Red Solstice 2: Survivors
- Does Red Solstice 2: Survivors run on Steam Deck?
- Red Solstice 2: Survivors is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Red Solstice 2: Survivors cost?
- Red Solstice 2: Survivors is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Red Solstice 2: Survivors have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Red Solstice 2: Survivors supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Red Solstice 2: Survivors?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Red Solstice 2: Survivors are Wolves Online, Starlorn: Rise of the Awakened, Doomsday × Ghost in the Shell.
- Who developed Red Solstice 2: Survivors?
- Red Solstice 2: Survivors was developed by Ironward and published by 505 Games.
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