Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War 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 and strategy.
- Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War is tagged Strategy, Warhammer 40K, 4X, Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based, Multiplayer, Hex Grid, Sci-fi 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.
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 and strategy; shares 10 player tags including Warhammer 40K, Strategy and Turn-Based Tactics; 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 Warhammer 40KStrategyTurn-Based TacticsGames WorkshopTurn-Based CombatSci-fiGreat SoundtrackTurn-Based
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ENDLESS Space 2
Why it matched: both science fiction, war and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Sci-fi and 4X; released around the same time (2017).
ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?
ENDLESS Space 2 at a glance Released 2017 Studio AMPLITUDE Studios Player sentiment 83% positive of 23,056 Price $7.99 StrategySci-fi4XTurn-Based StrategyTurn-BasedGrand StrategyGreat SoundtrackWar
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Galactic Civilizations III
Why it matched: both science fiction, war and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Sci-fi, 4X and Turn-Based Strategy; released around the same time (2015).
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
Galactic Civilizations III at a glance Released 2015 Studio Stardock Entertainment Player sentiment 77% positive of 10,391 Price $29.99 Sci-fi4XTurn-Based StrategyGrand StrategyHex GridStrategyTurn-BasedWar
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ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 10 player tags including Turn-Based Tactics, Wargame and Military; released around the same time (2020).
Triumph over the land, take charge of the fate of China! Conquer territories and fly your colors!
ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV at a glance Released 2020 Studio KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. Player sentiment 63% positive of 15,932 Price $59.99 Turn-Based TacticsWargameMilitaryWarGrand StrategyTurn-Based StrategyStrategyTactical
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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 TacticsTurn-BasedSci-fiTurn-Based CombatTacticalReplay Value
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Total War: ROME REMASTERED
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Grand Strategy and Turn-Based Strategy; released around the same time (2021).
Total War: ROME REMASTERED lets you relive the legacy that defined the award-winning strategy game series. Remastered to 4K with multiple improvements to visuals as well as refinements to gameplay, it’s time to revisit a true classic. Not everyone gets a second chance to conquer the Roman Empire.
Total War: ROME REMASTERED at a glance Released 2021 Studio Creative Assembly Player sentiment 77% positive of 13,722 Price $29.99 StrategyGrand StrategyTurn-Based Strategy4XWargameTacticalWarTurn-Based Combat
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HUMANKIND
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and 4X; released around the same time (2021).
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
HUMANKIND at a glance Released 2021 Studio AMPLITUDE Studios Player sentiment 69% positive of 28,708 Price $4.99 StrategyTurn-Based Strategy4XGrand StrategyTurn-BasedWarHex GridTactical
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Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
Why it matched: both science fiction and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and Sci-fi; released around the same time (2014).
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth at a glance Released 2014 Studio Firaxis Games Player sentiment 61% positive of 23,140 Price $39.99 StrategyTurn-Based StrategySci-fi4XTurn-BasedHex GridTacticalGrand Strategy
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Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and Grand Strategy.
Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.
Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2006 Studio CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Player sentiment 96% positive of 36,357 Price $24.99 StrategyTurn-Based StrategyGrand StrategyWarTacticalMilitaryTurn-BasedGreat Soundtrack
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and Turn-Based.
With over 6 million units sold and unprecedented critical acclaim from fans and press around the world, Sid Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now, Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new...
Sid Meier's Civilization IV at a glance Released 2006 Studio Firaxis Games Player sentiment 95% positive of 57 Price $19.99 StrategyTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based4XGrand StrategyReplay ValueGreat SoundtrackWar
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Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Grand Strategy and War.
Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release
Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2010 Studio CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Player sentiment 92% positive of 27,543 Price $24.99 StrategyGrand StrategyWarTurn-Based StrategyTacticalMilitaryTurn-BasedTurn-Based Tactics
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Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Military and Grand Strategy.
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2009 Studio CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Player sentiment 91% positive of 38,055 Price $24.99 StrategyMilitaryGrand StrategyTurn-Based StrategyWarTacticalTurn-BasedGreat Soundtrack
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and Grand Strategy; released around the same time (2017).
The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.
Total War: WARHAMMER II at a glance Released 2017 Studio CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Player sentiment 93% positive of 121,450 Price $59.99 StrategyTurn-Based StrategyGrand StrategyWarGames WorkshopTurn-BasedTacticalGreat Soundtrack
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Battle Brothers
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics and Turn-Based Strategy; released around the same time (2017).
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Battle Brothers at a glance Released 2017 Studio Overhype Studios Player sentiment 88% positive of 28,671 Price $8.99 StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyWarTacticalTurn-Based CombatReplay ValueTurn-Based
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 9 player tags including Grand Strategy, 4X and Military.
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII at a glance Released 2025 Studio Firaxis Games Player sentiment 48% positive of 58,602 Price $49.99 Grand Strategy4XMilitaryWarStrategyTurn-Based TacticsTacticalHex Grid
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Xenonauts
Why it matched: both science fiction and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics and Turn-Based Combat; released around the same time (2014).
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Xenonauts at a glance Released 2014 Studio Goldhawk Interactive Player sentiment 87% positive of 5,069 Price $24.99 Turn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based CombatGrand StrategyStrategyTacticalSci-fiTurn-Based
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
Why it matched: both science fiction, war and strategy; shares 7 player tags including Strategy, Warhammer 40K and Sci-fi.
All of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War in one glorious package. Play the genre-defining classic real time strategy game in all its blood-soaked glory, including four complete campaigns and nine full-fledged factions.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) at a glance Released 2007 Studio Relic Entertainment Player sentiment 95% positive of 11,931 Price $14.99 StrategyWarhammer 40KSci-fiGames WorkshopTacticalWarGreat Soundtrack
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, War and Turn-Based Strategy; released around the same time (2019).
Unite Ancient China under your rule through a thrilling blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles. Use the Guanxi System and diplomacy to forge alliances, and build powerful armies with hundreds of unique infantry, cavalry and war machine units.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS at a glance Released 2019 Studio CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Player sentiment 82% positive of 93,602 Price $39.99 StrategyWarTurn-Based StrategyGrand StrategyMilitaryTacticalTurn-BasedGreat Soundtrack
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Rome: Total War - Collection
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and Grand Strategy.
Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.
Rome: Total War - Collection at a glance Released 2007 Studio CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Player sentiment 95% positive of 16,717 Price Not listed StrategyTurn-Based StrategyGrand StrategyTacticalWarGreat SoundtrackTurn-Based4X
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Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete
Why it matched: both war and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy and Turn-Based.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete at a glance Released 2006 Studio Firaxis Games Player sentiment 89% positive of 7,789 Price $4.99 StrategyTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based4XReplay ValueGrand StrategyMilitaryWar
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Why it matched: both science fiction, war and strategy; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, Warhammer 40K and Sci-fi; released around the same time (2019).
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 at a glance Released 2019 Studio Tindalos Interactive Player sentiment 74% positive of 11,007 Price $19.99 StrategyWarhammer 40KSci-fiGames WorkshopWarTactical
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ENDLESS Space - Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both science fiction and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, 4X 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 Strategy4XSci-fiTurn-Based StrategyTurn-BasedGreat SoundtrackGrand StrategyReplay Value
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Invisible, Inc.
Why it matched: both science fiction and strategy; shares 7 player tags including Turn-Based Tactics, Strategy and Sci-fi; 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 Turn-Based TacticsStrategySci-fiTacticalTurn-BasedTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based Combat
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
Why it matched: both science fiction and strategy; shares 7 player tags including Turn-Based, Strategy and Turn-Based Tactics; 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 Turn-BasedStrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based CombatSci-fiTacticalGreat Soundtrack
Common questions
What game is most like Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War?
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, on the evidence we have. It both science fiction and strategy. 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 Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War" 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 Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War. 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.
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.