If End State scratched a tense and dark itch for you, keep reading. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
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.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
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.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
You are the CEO of a private military company. Recruit capable mercenaries, purchase weapons, and develop your mercenaries according to their roles and characteristics. Observe how your mercenaries perform in combat and plan your tactics to ensure mission success.
Tense, Replayable
The near present. Step into the event horizon of a failed state, as Private Military Contractor - Cold Harbor, hunting jihadist terrorists in war-torn sprawls as a lethal surrogate for the host nation.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
A turn-based tactical survival RPG with real bullet physics, factions with their own agendas and a shelter to rebuild. You scavenge, fight, doctor wounds and pick sides in a city the dead are closing in on. Old-school tactics, new-school consequences.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
Turn-based tactics meets real-time choices. Control each moment of combat: react to enemy fire, aim your shots, and interrupt enemies on-the-fly. Transform a trio of ragtag civilians into seasoned soldiers - and escape the alien timeloop.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
Lead an elite squad through a dystopian Eastern Europe in a turn-based tactics game built on scarce ammo, brutal firefights and a conspiracy that keeps getting worse. Plan every move, mix biocrystals into wild builds, and pull victories out of fights that looked lost.
Tense, Dark
Lead a mercenary company through a grim medieval world where every hire is a gamble and every battle can cost a brother his life. Turn-based tactics, contracts, coin and consequences in a procedurally generated campaign that never plays out the same way twice.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
Hired to find Grand Chien's missing president, your mercenary squad must take the countryside back from the Legion. Expect deep turn-based firefights, looted rifles to tinker with, territory to hold, and mercs who bicker the whole way. It is funny, scrappy, and worth playing for fans of tactical RPGs.
Tense, Replayable
Build a four-man squad from real special forces units, plan every step of a mission, then watch it all play out in seconds. Stack up at the door, pick your entry points, set your fields of fire, and hope the room holds no surprises. Short, sharp tactical runs that beg for one more try.
Tense, Replayable
Command a gritty, independent multi-national PMC in a real-world tactical sandbox set in 2002. No HP bars. No XP grind. No class rails or perk trees. Real ballistics, severe wounding, and persistent scars.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
7.62 High Calibre is a tactical action game, sequel to Brigade E5. A professional mercenary is in pursuit of a certain Russian "businessman", who stole a large amount of money from his "colleagues". Now he is hiding in a small country of Latin America to avoid an inevitable punishment.
Tense, Dark
You are the CEO of a private military company. Recruit capable mercenaries, purchase weapons, and develop your mercenaries according to their roles…
Command an elite squad through a collapsing dystopian state, one carefully planned firefight at a time.
Command a four-man special operations team through short, tense missions you plan turn by turn and execute in real time.
7.62 High Calibre is a tactical action game, sequel to Brigade E5.
Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles.
In this top-down tactical shooter RPG, guide a band of cute soldiers through a warzone to safety.
Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity.
Arma Tactics is a turn-based close-combat strategy game, where you take control of a four-member Special Forces team.
Shock Tactics is a single player turn-based sci-fi strategy game with tactical combat, exploration, squad management and base building.
Draw up routes for your squad on the map, then step into any operator's boots and see the mission through, where one mistake can cost a life for good.
A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.
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.
March a doomed order through a grim open world and win turn-based battles by bending morale, weather and light to your will.
A cyberpunk tactical RPG about running heists with a crew you build yourself.
A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems.
Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles.
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run!
Command an elite squad through a collapsing dystopian state, one carefully planned firefight at a time.
Command improvised squads of marines and convicts through a grim, tense campaign where every loss stings and every run plays out differently.
Draw up a squad plan, pause the action to adjust it, and watch the breach unfold in real time.
Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it?
Lead a mercenary squad through lethal turn-based firefights, then keep the whole company alive between missions.
Turn-based tactics meets real-time choices. Control each moment of combat: react to enemy fire, aim your shots, and interrupt enemies on-the-fly.
A turn-based tactical survival RPG with real bullet physics, factions with their own agendas and a shelter to rebuild.
Turn-based tactics meets real-time choices. Control each moment of combat: react to enemy fire, aim your shots, and interrupt enemies on-the-fly.
Crash-land on a hostile world, grow your squad from survivors into specialists, and hold out against a planet that wants you gone.
March a doomed order through a grim open world and win turn-based battles by bending morale, weather and light to your will.
Lead a mercenary squad through lethal turn-based firefights, then keep the whole company alive between missions.
A tactical shooter built the slow, deliberate way: true first-person, deep weapon and gear customization, and unforgiving firefights where one…
A turn-based tactical survival RPG with real bullet physics, factions with their own agendas and a shelter to rebuild.
A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems.
Command improvised squads of marines and convicts through a grim, tense campaign where every loss stings and every run plays out differently.
A cyberpunk tactical RPG about running heists with a crew you build yourself.
You are the CEO of a private military company. Recruit capable mercenaries, purchase weapons, and develop your mercenaries according to their roles…
Command an elite squad through a collapsing dystopian state, one carefully planned firefight at a time.
Build a squad of Pawns, customise their guns, and send them into grid battles where every run plays out differently.
