Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like BATTLETECH (2026)
Every game below overlaps with BATTLETECH on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, which both science fiction, story-rich, strategy and difficult.
- BATTLETECH is tagged Mechs, Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based, Sci-fi, Turn-Based Strategy, Tactical, Action by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 2 are from the same studio: Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut, Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich, strategy and difficult; shares 12 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics and Sci-fi; released around the same time (2018).
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?
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus at a glance Released 2018 Studio Bulwark Studios Player sentiment 91% positive of 14,603 Price $29.99 StrategyTurn-Based TacticsSci-fiGreat SoundtrackTurn-BasedTacticalTurn-Based StrategyRobots
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SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and strategy; shares 11 player tags including Mechs, Turn-Based Tactics and RPG; released around the same time (2019).
Beyond creation, four eras come together as one! Discover the latest entry in this iconic Tactical RPG series. Form your own team of SD Gundams and deploy for battle -- with units from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, SEED, 00, and Iron-Blooded Orphans!
SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS at a glance Released 2019 Studio TOM CREATE Player sentiment 82% positive of 8,175 Price $19.99 MechsTurn-Based TacticsRPGRobotsCharacter CustomizationTurn-BasedTurn-Based StrategySci-fi
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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Why it matched: made by the same studio, Harebrained Schemes; both science fiction, story-rich and strategy; shares 8 player tags including RPG, Turn-Based and Story Rich; released around the same time (2014).
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut at a glance Released 2014 Studio Harebrained Schemes Player sentiment 89% positive of 6,570 Price $14.99 RPGTurn-BasedStory RichStrategySci-fiTacticalTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based Strategy
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
Why it matched: made by the same studio, Harebrained Schemes; both science fiction, story-rich and strategy; shares 8 player tags including RPG, Turn-Based and Story Rich; released around the same time (2015).
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition at a glance Released 2015 Studio Harebrained Schemes Player sentiment 87% positive of 4,839 Price $19.99 RPGTurn-BasedStory RichStrategyTurn-Based TacticsSci-fiTacticalGreat Soundtrack
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The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
Why it matched: both story-rich, strategy and difficult; shares 10 player tags including RPG, Turn-Based Tactics and Turn-Based; released around the same time (2020).
Step into the wacky heroic fantasy universe of the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. Lead a team of unlikely and clumsy heroes in an epic and challenging tactical RPG. Live an adventure filled with humor, surprises and silly encounters.
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos at a glance Released 2020 Studio Artefacts Studio Player sentiment 87% positive of 8,064 Price $5.24 RPGTurn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategyTurn-Based StrategyCharacter CustomizationTacticalDifficult
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Why it matched: both science fiction, strategy and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Turn-Based Strategy, Tactical and Strategy.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown at a glance Released 2012 Studio Firaxis Games Player sentiment 93% positive of 58,594 Price $14.99 Turn-Based StrategyTacticalStrategySci-fiTurn-BasedTurn-Based TacticsCharacter CustomizationDifficult
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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics and Tactical; released around the same time (2022).
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 - Daemonhunters at a glance Released 2022 Studio Complex Games Player sentiment 77% positive of 14,719 Price $44.99 Turn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTacticalStrategyCharacter CustomizationStory RichSci-fiRPG
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Blackguards
Why it matched: both story-rich, strategy and difficult; shares 9 player tags including RPG, Turn-Based and Strategy; released around the same time (2014).
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
Blackguards at a glance Released 2014 Studio Daedalic Entertainment Player sentiment 62% positive of 3,917 Price $0.99 RPGTurn-BasedStrategyTacticalTurn-Based StrategyCharacter CustomizationTurn-Based TacticsStory Rich
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Invisible, Inc.
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich, strategy and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Difficult, Turn-Based Tactics and Strategy; released around the same time (2015).
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Invisible, Inc. at a glance Released 2015 Studio Klei Entertainment Player sentiment 91% positive of 5,778 Price $19.99 DifficultTurn-Based TacticsStrategySci-fiTacticalTurn-BasedTurn-Based Strategy
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Final Fantasy XIII
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich, strategy and difficult; shares 8 player tags including RPG, Great Soundtrack and Story Rich.
Final Fantasy XIII is a fantasy RPG in which a band of brave humans struggle against fate in the utopian sky city of Cocoon and the primeval world of Pulse. Follow stylish heroine Lightning's fast paced battles and high adventure in a mysterious new world.
Final Fantasy XIII at a glance Released 2009 Studio Square Enix Player sentiment 75% positive of 19,914 Price $15.99 RPGGreat SoundtrackStory RichSci-fiFuturisticTurn-BasedStrategyDifficult
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Wasteland 3
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Character Customization, Story Rich and RPG; released around the same time (2020).
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Wasteland 3 at a glance Released 2020 Studio inXile Entertainment Player sentiment 85% positive of 22,363 Price $39.99 Character CustomizationStory RichRPGTurn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedStrategySci-fiTactical
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The Last Remnant
Why it matched: both story-rich, strategy and difficult; shares 9 player tags including RPG, Turn-Based and Great Soundtrack.
Mitra, yama, qsiti, sovani... These four races exist in one world. A world filled with Remnants — mysterious artifacts from an ancient era. Who created the Remnant? How long ago? And for what purpose? With these questions left unanswered, the Remnants became beneficial tools used for the good of civilization. The world was at peace...
The Last Remnant at a glance Released 2009 Studio Square Enix Player sentiment 81% positive of 4,135 Price Not listed RPGTurn-BasedGreat SoundtrackTurn-Based StrategyStory RichStrategyTurn-Based TacticsDifficult
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Into the Breach
Why it matched: both science fiction and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and Turn-Based Tactics; released around the same time (2018).
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.
Into the Breach at a glance Released 2018 Studio Subset Games Player sentiment 94% positive of 22,246 Price $14.99 StrategyTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsMechsTurn-BasedSci-fiTacticalRPG
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Why it matched: both science fiction, strategy and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and Sci-fi.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
X-COM: UFO Defense at a glance Released 2008 Studio MicroProse Software, Inc Player sentiment 95% positive of 3,992 Price $4.99 StrategyTurn-Based StrategySci-fiTurn-BasedTacticalTurn-Based TacticsDifficultManagement
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Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Character Customization, Story Rich and Turn-Based Strategy.
Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at a glance Released 2023 Studio Owlcat Games Player sentiment 88% positive of 47,744 Price $49.99 Character CustomizationStory RichTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsStrategyRPGTurn-BasedFuturistic
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XCOM: Chimera Squad
Why it matched: both science fiction and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics and Turn-Based Strategy; released around the same time (2020).
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
XCOM: Chimera Squad at a glance Released 2020 Studio Firaxis Games Player sentiment 71% positive of 23,443 Price $9.99 StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyTurn-BasedSci-fiFuturisticTacticalRPG
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Library Of Ruina
Why it matched: both story-rich, strategy and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Story Rich, Strategy and Difficult; released around the same time (2021).
"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.
Library Of Ruina at a glance Released 2021 Studio ProjectMoon Player sentiment 94% positive of 44,826 Price $29.99 Story RichStrategyDifficultGreat SoundtrackTurn-BasedTurn-Based StrategyRPG
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Homeworld Remastered Collection
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and strategy; shares 7 player tags including Space, Strategy and Sci-fi; released around the same time (2015).
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
Homeworld Remastered Collection at a glance Released 2015 Studio Gearbox Software Player sentiment 88% positive of 14,159 Price $3.49 SpaceStrategySci-fiGreat SoundtrackStory RichTacticalFuturistic
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Expeditions: Rome
Why it matched: both story-rich and strategy; shares 8 player tags including RPG, Strategy and Turn-Based Strategy; released around the same time (2022).
Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?
Expeditions: Rome at a glance Released 2022 Studio Logic Artists Player sentiment 87% positive of 6,755 Price $44.99 RPGStrategyTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTacticalStory RichTurn-BasedCharacter Customization
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The Surge
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and difficult; shares 7 player tags including RPG, Sci-fi and Difficult; released around the same time (2017).
Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.
The Surge at a glance Released 2017 Studio Deck13 Player sentiment 75% positive of 12,215 Price $14.99 RPGSci-fiDifficultMechsRobotsFuturisticStory Rich
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The Surge 2
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and difficult; shares 7 player tags including RPG, Sci-fi and Difficult; released around the same time (2019).
In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.
The Surge 2 at a glance Released 2019 Studio Deck13 Player sentiment 75% positive of 9,558 Price $29.99 RPGSci-fiDifficultCharacter CustomizationMechsRobotsStory Rich
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ENDLESS Space - Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both science fiction and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Space and Sci-fi.
ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
ENDLESS Space - Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2012 Studio AMPLITUDE Studios Player sentiment 81% positive of 9,598 Price $2.49 StrategySpaceSci-fiTurn-Based StrategyTurn-BasedGreat SoundtrackFuturisticManagement
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Anno 2205
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and strategy; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, Futuristic and Sci-fi; released around the same time (2015).
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Anno 2205 at a glance Released 2015 Studio Blue Byte Player sentiment 70% positive of 6,335 Price $39.99 StrategyFuturisticSci-fiSpaceManagementStory Rich
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Why it matched: both science fiction, story-rich and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Sci-fi, Story Rich and Space.
The story of Cal Kestis continues in STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™, a galaxy-spanning, third-person, action-adventure game.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor at a glance Released 2023 Studio Respawn Entertainment Player sentiment 71% positive of 85,859 Price $69.99 Sci-fiStory RichSpaceCharacter CustomizationRPGGreat SoundtrackDifficult
Common questions
What game is most like BATTLETECH?
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, on the evidence we have. It both science fiction, story-rich, strategy and difficult. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to BATTLETECH" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with BATTLETECH. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
What else did the makers of BATTLETECH do?
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut, Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition are also from Harebrained Schemes, and appear in the list below for that reason as well as on tag overlap.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.