Games like Broken Lines

Hooked on the dark and story-driven side of Broken Lines? These games are worth a look next.

Burden of Command™
You are a company Captain with the historical Cottonbalers in World War II, and your job is psychology as much as shooting. Build respect, trust and experience turn by turn, make choices that follow your men home, and feel the weight of every order in a story-rich tactical RPG.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
83% of 634 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
Forgotten but Unbroken
A tactical turn-based strategy game inspired by events and stories of forgotten and unsung heroes of WW2. Unique and new-to-genre features offer immersion and deeper protagonists to lead and care for. Lead the resistance against the Axis Forces.
Dark, Tense
76% of 250 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Unconventional Warfare
In this top-down tactical shooter RPG, guide a band of cute soldiers through a warzone to safety. Rescue, train and manage your squad for the upcoming war of survival.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
82% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Warhounds
Warhounds is a turn-based tactics game about an elite mercenary squad in an alternate-future Africa, with an old-school action movie streak. Flank, break cover, seize the high ground, and run a mercenary company between missions. High lethality means every decision counts, and one bad turn can cost a veteran.
Dark, Replayable, Tense
70% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$34.99
Silent Storm Gold Edition
A 3D turn-based tactics RPG set in an alternate 1943. You lead a hand-picked multinational squad behind enemy lines for the Allies or the Axis, with over 75 authentic weapons and buildings that break apart shot by shot. Every wall, floor and window is a tactical decision, and no two missions play out the same way.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
87% of 966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
All Quiet in the Trenches
A narrative turn-based strategy RPG set on the Western Front in 1915. As a German Unteroffizier you look after a squad of soldiers: feed them, rest them, patch them up, then lead them over the top. Your choices will not change the war, but they decide who comes home.
Dark, Story-driven, Replayable
90% of 926 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$24.99
War Mongrels
A grim real-time tactics game on the Eastern Front of World War II. Sneak, distract and kill your way through occupied territory with a squad of mongrels, alone or in online co-op, wrapped in a dark story about survival when the war has taken everything else.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
72% of 1,838 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$44.99
Classified: France '44
Lead an Allied special-ops team and French resistance fighters through occupied France in the months before D-Day. Sneak, sabotage and shoot your way through a turn-based campaign where every shot matters, the Gestapo is watching, and your choices shape how the invasion goes.
Dark, Replayable, Tense
70% of 863 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$34.99
Chains of Freedom
Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern European country as you unravel a conspiracy threatening the state. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
80% of 533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$12.49
Headquarters: World War II
Headquarters: World War II is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game where your battlefield tactics are as important as your army management skills. Experience both sides of the war, battling in Europe as the USA, the UK, or Germany. Storm bunkers, occupy houses, win tank duels.
Replayable
74% of 512 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$39.99
MENACE
Lead marines, mercenaries and criminals across the cut-off Wayback system to stop an alien threat. You answer distress calls, build infantry squads and tanks, and fight hard turn-based battles where suppression, cover and range decide who walks home.
Dark, Replayable, Tense
90% of 12,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 801$39.99
Tactical Breach Wizards
Lead a squad of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles, combo their spells in absurd ways, and rewind time to punch a Traffic Warlock out a fourth story window. A funny, story-driven tactics game where every wild plan is one rewind away from working.
Story-driven, Replayable, Cinematic
97% of 11,593 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$19.99

Cheaper than Broken Lines

Trench Face

Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner.

$2.24

Element Space

Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity.

$0.99

Pathway

Lead a squad of 1930s explorers through turn-based tomb raids where every run draws a new map and new risks.

$4.79

RUNNING WITH RIFLES

Take your place on the front line, loot what you need, and climb from private to the one calling in the artillery.

$3.74

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

Othercide

Command the Daughters through brutal turn-based battles against nightmarish creatures, where every loss costs something real.

$2.99

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a tactical game that places gamers in the small tropical nation of Palinero on the verge of a civil war.

$3.99

Halfway

Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds.

$2.59

Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics

Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics.

$2.99

Empires Shall Fall

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

$3.24

Banner of the Maid

Lead troops through alternate-history battles and play Parisian politics in a colorful, story-driven tactics RPG.

$3.39

Chromosome Evil 2

Command a strike team and a resource-starved convoy through a Lovecraftian apocalypse, in real time or with active pause.

$1.99

Hidden gems like Broken Lines

Trench Face

Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner.

$2.24

Those Who Rule

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

$17.99

Burden of Command™

You are a company Captain with the historical Cottonbalers in World War II, and your job is psychology as much as shooting.

$24.99

All Quiet in the Trenches

Care for a squad of soldiers on the Western Front, then lead them over the top in a turn-based war story where every decision weighs.

$24.99

Pawns of War

Build a squad of Pawns, customise their guns, and send them into grid battles where every run plays out differently.

Free

No Plan B

Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles.

$14.99

Shardpunk

The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run!

$13.99

Chains of Freedom

Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game.

$12.49

MENACE

Command improvised squads of marines and convicts through a grim, tense campaign where every loss stings and every run plays out differently.

$39.99

Tactical Breach Wizards

Turn-based tactics where a squad of kevlar-clad wizards plans absurd spell combos, then rewinds until the plan works.

$19.99

Welcome Back, Commander

Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads .

$7.79

Warhounds

Lead a mercenary squad through lethal turn-based firefights, then keep the whole company alive between missions.

$34.99

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