Games like Othercide
If Othercide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Iratus: Lord of the Dead, Darkest Dungeon® II and Into the Breach — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and dark. 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 →Othercide is a turn-based tactical roguelite released in 2020 by Lightbulb Crew and published by Focus Entertainment. The game features character management, an initiative-based combat system, memory upgrades, and roguelite progression mechanics within a tactical RPG framework. Players manage squads against challenging encounters in short play sessions, with a medium-length campaign. Reviewers highlight its beautiful blend of dark narrative and tactical gameplay, a challenging yet rewarding combat system, and a unique approach to character death and revival. Players describe the atmosphere as bleak and dark. The game costs $29.99, supports solo play only, and holds an 83% positive rating from 2456 Steam reviews with a Metacritic score of 78. Othercide is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Othercide: 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.
Players who liked Othercide also play
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Iratus: Lord of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Top pick for Othercide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
Darkest Dungeon® II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Othercide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Othercide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Othercide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Othercide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
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.
Dungeon Rushers
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Othercide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!
Crowntakers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Ranked #7 for Othercide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Ranked #8 for Othercide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Othercide
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XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Reviewers of Othercide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
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.
Phoenix Point
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Reviewers of Othercide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
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!
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Othercide.
Reviewers of Othercide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Reviewers of Othercide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Marvel's Midnight Suns
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Othercide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Reviewers of Othercide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
Moonscars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Reviewers of Othercide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Othercide.
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
Star Renegades
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Othercide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Othercide at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Othercide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Othercide.
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 ~50% under Othercide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Othercide.
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 ~67% under Othercide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Othercide.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Othercide on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
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 ~50% under Othercide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Othercide.
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 ~67% under Othercide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Othercide.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Othercide.
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Othercide.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Othercide.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Othercide.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Othercide.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Lightbulb Crew
Other recommendable Steam games by Lightbulb Crew, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Games of Glory
WHY THIS
Another title from Lightbulb Crew, the studio behind Othercide. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
Games of Glory is a top-down action team shooter set in a science fiction universe. Fight alongside your friends to earn fame and fortune in the epic intergalactic arenas of the Synarchy!
Nova Hearts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Othercide.
Another title from Lightbulb Crew, the studio behind Othercide. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.
Ex Sanguis
WHY THIS
Another title from Lightbulb Crew, the studio behind Othercide. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
Bleed the world back to life in a series of tactical, turn-based bloodbaths! Lead your STILLAE, elite warriors in the fight to save a dying world from the forces of STASIS. Slay foes, kick them back on the timeline, and trigger chain events where elegance and blood flow as one.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Darkest Dungeon® II
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
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.
Frequently asked about Othercide
- Does Othercide work on Steam Deck?
- Othercide is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Othercide cost?
- Othercide is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Othercide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Othercide are Iratus: Lord of the Dead, Darkest Dungeon® II, Into the Breach.
- Who developed Othercide?
- Othercide was developed by Lightbulb Crew and published by Focus Entertainment.
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