Games like Base Wars

Chasing that competitive and replayable feeling you got from Base Wars? These games are worth a look next.

Warside
Classic turn-based tactics with a fresh coat of pixel paint. Pick one of 14 Commanders, each with a Battle Power that can flip a fight, and lead tanks, subs and jets across a 30-mission campaign. Then take the fight online, or build your own maps and settle scores with friends.
Competitive, Replayable, Retro
69% of 562 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$24.99
Apes Warfare
Fast-paced tactical battles where every move can turn the tide. Outsmart your opponent, adapt on the fly, and turn the battle in seconds. Inspired by classic strategy games, reimagined for faster, more modern play. Play the solo campaign or challenge players worldwide in online multiplayer.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Retro
96% of 90 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Eternal Warfare
Eternal Warfare is a turn-based strategy and war game where you harvest resources, build an army, and then destroy your opponents! Construct production facilities, advance your tech level, and then fight through land, sea and air, until you emerge victorious!
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Retro
100% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Tactical Warfare
The enemy attack on your base is imminent; secure your defenses, mobilize your troops, reinforce key positions, and get ready for the next battle. RTS Tactical Warfare will test your resilience and strategic prowess.
Competitive
65% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Tactical Annihilation
Experience turn-based strategy with free-form base building, multi-unit control, colossal units, and powerful battle skills. It captures the depth of an RTS in turn-based form, like Advanced Wars with massive super units!
Competitive, Replayable
97% of 72 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$15.99
Warbits+
Warbits+ is a charming turn-based strategy game where victory is achieved through tactics and determination. Compete with your friends locally and online, hone your skills with single-player missions, or battle for glory against other commanders on the community hub.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Retro
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Bot Wars
Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map. Featuring corporate kill bot armies, ranging from a firearms and beverage manufacturer to a lovecraftian burger cult.
Competitive
85% of 705 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Rusted Warfare - RTS
A retro RTS built for scale: over 50 units, experimental war machines and battles with thousands of sprites running smoothly. Play challenges, skirmish or sandbox, then take it online with up to 10 players. Simple to learn, endlessly moddable, and the kind of game you keep coming back to.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Retro
96% of 6,737 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 124$4.99
Micro Wars
Micro Wars is a fast-paced RTS that throws you into the action in short, intense online battles featuring up to 8 players. Tailor your strategy with a variety of commanders and units, build your base, and micro your way to victory. Hone your skills with the campaign, and then climb the ladder ranks!
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
$11.99
Tower Wars
Tower defense turned against itself: while you build mazes of towers to grind down incoming waves, you are also the one sending those waves at someone else's castle. Attack, defend, upgrade, repeat, all in a cheerful steampunk world where losing still sounds funny.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
71% of 1,203 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Line War
Line War is a strategy game where you command by drawing: lines across the map move tanks, hold fronts and launch attacks. Built around planning rather than fast clicking, with random maps, territory to conquer and matches for up to eight players. If you like outthinking an opponent more than outclicking one, this is your kind of war.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
80% of 1,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
War Pawns
Fast-paced WWII turn-based tactics with team-based multiplayer, objective-driven battles, and a built-in map editor to create and share custom battlefields.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than Base Wars

Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense

The best elements of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and Tower Defense genres combined into a new Base Defense game.

$1.99

Arena Wars 2

Arena Wars 2 is the sequel of the award-winning Arena Wars series and combines revolutionary RTS fights with RPG elements.

$3.99

WARCANA

WARCANA is a fantasy inspired base defence, RTS game with a deck-building mechanic.

$4.24

Empires Shall Fall

Empires Shall Fall is a turn-based tactics game set in a dieselpunk world.

$3.24

Byte Lynx

Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building…

$9.99

Faction Wars

A grid based single / local multiplayer strategy game where two factions clash in deadly turn based battles.

$1.99

War War

A 4-player multiplayer real-time / turn-based strategy game.

$3.99

Cat's Wars

Cute cats. Big guns. Two players. Zero mercy. Grab a friend, gear up your cats, and jump into chaotic third-person battles full of bullets…

$1.99

Ground Breakers

Battle with robots on dynamic, randomly generated battlegrounds, as you attempt to take on the world in this unique turn-based strategy game.

$0.99

Castle Combat

RTS, but the soldiers will act automatically: Each soldier has different characteristics/attribute values/action methods.

$2.99

Crown Wars: The Black Prince

Command a squad of knights through turn-based battles and build your castle into a stronghold against the forces of evil.

$0.99

Banana Kingdom

An addictive retro strategy simulation! Simple rules with deep strategy. A powerful, highly flexible map editor.

$3.99

Hidden gems like Base Wars

The Scouring

Command an army or fight as one hero, tearing through bases, dungeons and undead nights with friends or rivals.

$24.99

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

Raise a base, mass tanks, ships and planes, and push across land, sea and air in fast, friendly-looking battles that stay easy to start and tricky…

$19.99

Winter Falling: Battle Tactics

Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it?

$14.99

Athena Crisis

Athena Crisis is a modern retro turn-based strategy game that places you in command of 40+ units in your journey across the multiverse.

$5.99

Warside

Command tanks, warships and aircraft in fast, grid-based battles across a 30-mission campaign and online play.

$24.99

Bot Wars

Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map.

$14.99

Line War

Draw fronts and attack routes across the map, then watch your tanks carry out the plan against up to seven other players.

$24.99

Mechabellum

Draft units, upgrade them between rounds, and let your tactics settle the fight while the mechs do the shooting.

Operation: Polygon Storm

A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy.

$14.99