Games like AMBUSH tactics

If AMBUSH tactics left you wanting something dark and story-driven, you have options. These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

AMBUSH tactics Advanced
A simple modern medieval tactics RPG.
Story-driven, Retro
83% of 12 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Those Who Rule
Lead three raw recruits through a low-fantasy war full of betrayal, on a hex grid where facing and positioning decide everything. Train a roster of flawed soldiers, forge their gear, and make choices that reshape the story. A tactical RPG with a dark, grounded plot and real weight behind every move.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
89% of 1,146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$17.99
Untamed Tactics
Untamed Tactics is a Tactical RPG set in world of colorful animals. Relive the legend of Greycoat’s escape into the untamed Wilds in a tale of lost honor and finding a new home as you fight, talk, and think your way through this beautifully illustrated adventure!
Story-driven
76% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Entropy
Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Assemble your party of mercenaries and forge your own path towards an expedition into hell to stop the demonic incursion. Choices you make along the way will determine the fate of your world.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
94% of 337 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$11.99
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
Tahnra is a land savaged by war, and you are its newest officer: a fresh academy graduate sent to crush a rebellion, who ends up leading a grand army. Build squads from 50+ classes, grab the high ground, break enemy morale, and watch battles unfold in a story-rich 30-40 hour campaign with serious replay value.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
94% of 12,993 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 161$19.99
Fae Tactics
A cute-looking tactics game with real teeth. Follow Peony, a young magic user, across a broken world where fae and humans are drifting toward war. Summon creatures, counter enemy elements, and explore the conflicts in any order you like. It plays faster than most tactics games, and the story is better than the pastel art lets on.
Story-driven, Retro
86% of 1,181 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Clarent Saga: Tactics
Lead Prince Abel's army in a free, 16-bit-inspired tactical RPG! Recruit 28 playable characters, fight across 42 maps, and experience a three-part fantasy story spanning two generations. Customize the difficulty and master fast-paced strategic battles!
Story-driven, Retro
82% of 65 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Ambition Record
Raise the song of victory in a fantasy RPG and experience true dragon power!
Story-driven, Retro
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs
Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.
Story-driven, Retro
76% of 392 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Shores Unknown
A turn-based RPG with deep character-driven combat, and a story written by Final Fantasy veterans. Finding yourself on the wrong side of the Crown, you and your companions must fight or perish. Build a team of mercenaries, forge alliances, and explore distant lands.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
65% of 94 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy
Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy is a turn-based, tactical RPG featuring strategic battles, intriguing puzzles and exciting quests. Customize your heroes’ unique, class-based attacks and abilities to defeat Father Eldritch's oppressive armies throughout dozens of unique, hand-crafted maps!
Dark, Story-driven
69% of 83 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Crimson Tactics: The Rise of The White Banner
Crimson Tactics: The Rise of The White Banner brings you an epic adventure in the form of a turn-based tactical RPG. Set in a medieval high fantasy world, witness a massive political disruption through the lives of different characters and fight for the fate of Wendalle.
Dark, Story-driven
45% of 252 Steam reviews are positive$29.99

Hidden gems like AMBUSH tactics

Entropy

Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs.

$11.99

Those Who Rule

Lead three recruits through a grim tactical war, where positioning wins fights and decisions shape the story.

$17.99

Together in Battle

Manage a team of fantasy gladiators in this Fire Emblem-style strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, and emergent…

$19.99

Prelude Dark Pain

A grim tactical RPG where a retired blacksmith rallies heroes against a cruel crusade, and every choice leaves its mark on a hand-drawn world.

$19.99

The Adventurers

Lead a band of adventurers through an open fantasy world, one contract and hex-grid battle at a time, with a fresh story every run.

$12.99

The Iron Oath

Lead a mercenary company for hire in the harsh fantasy realm of Caelum.

$24.99

Telepath Tactics Liberated

An SRPG fan's SRPG! Imagine Fire Emblem with destructible battlefields; the ability to place traps; the ability to shove enemies off cliffs, into…

$19.99

Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga

Lead squads of soldiers through a dark fantasy campaign where every battle moves the story forward.

$19.99

Godless Tactics

Lead an elite strike team through the wars of a reborn civilisation, and decide the fate of humanity through your achievements and choices.

$6.99

Fae Tactics

Lead Peony across a broken fantasy world, summon creatures to fight for you and out-think enemy elements in quick turn-based battles.

$19.99

Crown and Adventure

Recruit heroes, raise a legion and rule your own dynasty across a bright open world of real-time battles.

$19.99

Vanaris Tactics

Vanaris Tactics is a short narrative tactical RPG experience that tells a story about refugees fleeing their occupied motherland.

$9.99

Newest games like AMBUSH tactics

The Adventurers

Lead a band of adventurers through an open fantasy world, one contract and hex-grid battle at a time, with a fresh story every run.

$12.99

Entropy

Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs.

$11.99

Prelude Dark Pain

A grim tactical RPG where a retired blacksmith rallies heroes against a cruel crusade, and every choice leaves its mark on a hand-drawn world.

$19.99

Fight Life: Vanguard

Engage in tactical turn-based combat, manage and upgrade each character, and strive to reclaim harmony in a world on the brink of oblivion.

$8.39

Crown and Adventure

Recruit heroes, raise a legion and rule your own dynasty across a bright open world of real-time battles.

$19.99

Together in Battle

Manage a team of fantasy gladiators in this Fire Emblem-style strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, and emergent…

$19.99

Those Who Rule

Lead three recruits through a grim tactical war, where positioning wins fights and decisions shape the story.

$17.99

Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG

Embark on an epic journey, enjoying complete freedom in a dynamic sandbox RPG.

$14.29

Of Blades & Tails

A turn-based RPG that is action-oriented but rewards a thoughtful approach. Explore a fantastic land populated by different animal tribes.

$14.99

The Iron Oath

Lead a mercenary company for hire in the harsh fantasy realm of Caelum.

$24.99

BEAST: False Prophet

BEAST is a brutal, gridless tactical RPG that sends players to the dark ages rife with plague and raiders.

$24.99

Untamed Tactics

Untamed Tactics is a Tactical RPG set in world of colorful animals.

$3.99