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Games like Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

If Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Othercide, Pathway and Gears Tactics — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and mysterious. 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.

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About Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics: Challenge the horrifying reign of Nazi terror and battle an immortal evil in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics; a turn-based tactical strategy game set in the award-winning Achtung! Cthulhu universe.

2018ActionStrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 56Windowsby Auroch Digital
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics — Steam game cover
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Fixed squad with deep skill customizationLovecraftian nazi setting feels freshResource management punishes reckless positioningAtmosphericEerieMysterious

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Steam players who put hours into Achtung! Cthulhu 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.

  1. Othercide

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Top pick for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu 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.

    2020StrategyIndie29.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Pathway

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Second-strongest match for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!

    2019StrategyIndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Gears Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2020Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Crown Wars: The Black Prince

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Ranked #4 for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    The War of Crowns rages on. Knights and brigands run rampant throughout the land, sowing destruction. From your castle base, rise to become the lord who leads the battle against the forces of evil in this turn-based tactics and strategy game.

    2024StrategyAdventureRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Hard West

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Ranked #5 for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Ranked #6 for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2018StrategyRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Himeko Sutori

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Ranked #7 for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Himeko Sutori is a tactical, turn-based RPG that combines intimate character development with epic battles featuring hundreds of unique characters. With the included campaign editor, you can make new worlds and new adventures, making Himeko Sutori your story.

    2021StrategyIndieRPG18.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Fort Triumph

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Ranked #8 for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    A strategy game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with the world exploration of HOMM. Build towns, collect artifacts, improve your heroes, and influence your tactical surroundings using physics!

    2020StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. XCOM® 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Reviewers of Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Reviewers of Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2018StrategyRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Mutant

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    -15 Huge Levels. -Nine Mutant Special Abilities. -Hold Up To Four Guns At Once. -Beat Your Enemy With Crates, Barrels, Or Cars.

    2022ActionAdventure2.49 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Action with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Action with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Auroch Digital

Other recommendable Steam games by Auroch Digital, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics. Shares Action and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.

    2023ActionIndie21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Mars Horizon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics. Shares Action and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Lock and load into the Starship Troopers universe and join the Mobile Infantry in the most realistic depiction of war ever made! Experience an original story in this action-packed, first-person retro shooter. Would you like to know more?

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!

    2022Simulation17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Dark Future: Blood Red States (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Step into the extraordinary, dystopian world of Dark Future, filled with danger, chaos and adventure. A game of both action and strategy unlike any other, featuring a unique time dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions on the dangerous highways of this world.

    2019StrategyIndie24.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Chainsaw Warrior (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Chainsaw Warrior from Games Workshop is the classic game for one strong-nerved player! It's 2032 and spatial warping has opened a hole into another dimension in the midst of the old municipal buildings at the heart of Manhattan. Bizarre and dangerous creatures are flooding into our dimension.

    2013StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Ogre

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".

    2017StrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics. Shares Action and Strategy with Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics.

    Based on the 1987 Games Workshop classic, a battle vs zombies cultists & time! Fight against hordes of Aztec Zombies, and the clock, to save reality from Darkness. Lords of the Night introduces an upgraded combat system, new weapons, powers, equipment and unique mini bosses.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

Does Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics run on Steam Deck?
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics 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 Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics cost?
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics are Othercide, Pathway, Gears Tactics.
Who developed Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics?
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics was developed by Auroch Digital and published by Ripstone.

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