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2023PCXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified85 % positive34.99 €

You lead a band of mercenaries across an open medieval world, taking contracts, keeping your crew fed and paid, and fighting demanding turn-based tactical battles. Its blend of survival management, freedom and party building is the draw.

A party of several characters
Turn-based combat
Open world
Economy and management

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The closest matches for Wartales are Battle Brothers, Horizon's Gate and Stellar Tactics. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Wartales special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Wartales

Best alternative overall: Battle Brothers 94% match – A party of several characters
Without combat: Horizon's Gate 90% match – calmer, no fighting
Newest alternative: Stellar Tactics 88% match – released 2026

Best match

Battle Brothers

94 %Match

2017PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable87 % positive29.99 €

You lead a mercenary company through a gritty, procedurally generated medieval world, juggling contracts, gear and recruits. The turn-based battles are brutal, and losing your men is part of the experience.

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Horizon's Gate

Open world

You sail across an open fantasy world as an explorer, trader or privateer, fighting turn-based tactical battles on land and at sea. You decide whether to chase the mystery of Dominio's betrayal or carve out your own adventure.

Stellar Tactics

Open world

A classic sci-fi RPG set in deep space where you recruit a team, outfit your ship and explore a vast procedurally generated universe. Ground battles play out as turn-based tactical combat.

Jagged Alliance 3

Tactical depth

You hire quirky mercenaries and liberate a war-torn country through deep turn-based tactical combat. Capture sectors, manage your squad and gear, and enjoy the mercs' wisecracking banter along the way.

Elin

Open world

Elin is the successor to the cult roguelike Elona: a huge sandbox world of adventuring, survival, crafting and home-building where you can do almost anything. It offers deep character growth, companions and a quirky tone.

SpellForce: Conquest of Eo

Economy and management

As an aspiring wizard you grow a realm from a small tower, sending heroes and armies out to explore and fight turn-based battles against rival forces. Strategic map exploration meets RPG progression in the SpellForce universe.

Baldur's Gate 3

Choices with consequences

A sprawling D&D-based CRPG where inventive turn-based combat rewards creativity and nearly every decision reshapes the story and your bonds with its superbly written companions.

Expeditions: Viking

Choices with consequences

As the new leader of a Viking clan, you command a party in turn-based tactical battles, manage resources, and choose between trade, diplomacy and raiding, with decisions that noticeably shape your story.

Expeditions: Conquistador

Choices with consequences

You lead a Spanish conquistador expedition through 16th-century Mexico, managing supplies, morale and companions. Turn-based tactical battles and your choices toward the natives shape how the campaign unfolds.

Sid Meier's Civilization V

Economy and management

The classic 4X strategy game: you guide a civilization across millennia, from its first settlement to the space age. Hex-based combat, city-states and multiple paths to victory create the famous "one more turn" pull.

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