Games like Broken Lines
If Broken Lines is your kind of game, the closest matches are Headquarters: World War II, Unity of Command II and Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character abilities add depth, multiple endings reward replayability 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 Broken Lines: Broken Lines is a story-driven tactical RPG set in an alternate-history version of WWII. Lead a squad of soldiers and face the horrors of war. In the included expansion, 'The Dead and the Drunk', guide your troops through fights against both the living and the undead.
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Headquarters: World War II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Top pick for Broken Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Headquarters: World War II is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game where your battlefield tactics are as important as your army management skills. Experience both sides of the war, battling in Europe as the USA, the UK, or Germany. Storm bunkers, occupy houses, win tank duels.
Unity of Command II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Broken Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Broken Lines.
Third-strongest match for Broken Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg is a turn-based strategy set in the period of WW2. It brings a modern look and new features to a good old wargame genre. You are to lead the German Armed forces overcoming unthinkable odds and claiming the ultimate bittersweet victory in Europe. Blitzkrieg is the way!
MASSIVE CHALICE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Ranked #4 for Broken Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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.
Burden of Command™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Ranked #5 for Broken Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Can you lead? Burden of Command is an emotionally authentic tactical leadership RPG. You’re a company Captain in the historical Cottonbalers. Fighting psychology as much as bullets, you must build respect, trust, and battlefield experience to bring your brothers safely home.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares camp interactions and an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Ranked #6 for Broken Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Broken Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Ranked #8 for Broken Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Broken Lines
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X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Reviewers of Broken Lines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Spec Ops: The Line
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Broken Lines.
Reviewers of Broken Lines cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.
Frozen Synapse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Reviewers of Broken Lines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Reviewers of Broken Lines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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.
Jagged Alliance 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Broken Lines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Broken Lines.
Reviewers of Broken Lines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Reviewers of Broken Lines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Command a squad of up to 20 Space Marines and battle the forces of Chaos led by Chaos Lord Zymran. Chaos Gate is a squad-level, turn-based tactical strategy game set in the grim Warhammer 40,000 world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Broken Lines at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Broken Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Broken Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Broken Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Broken Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Broken Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Broken Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Broken Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Broken Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Unity of Command II
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares camp interactions and an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
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.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Broken Lines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Broken Lines.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
Frequently asked about Broken Lines
- How much does Broken Lines cost?
- Broken Lines is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Broken Lines?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Broken Lines are Headquarters: World War II, Unity of Command II, Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg.
- Who developed Broken Lines?
- Broken Lines was developed by BirdIsland/PortaPlay and published by SuperGG.com.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Broken Lines.
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