Veterum
March a doomed order through a grim open world and win turn-based battles by bending morale, weather and light to your will.
84% of 252 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Games like Heads Will Roll: Downfall
Want something that feels dark and replayable the way Heads Will Roll: Downfall does? Give these games a try when the craving hits.
Battle Brothers
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.
Dark, Replayable, Tense
87% of 26,444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,124$29.99Those 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, Replayable, Story-driven
89% of 1,146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$17.99A Legionary's Life
A text-based RPG about being one ordinary Roman soldier in the Second Punic War. Fight in turn-based battles where morale, reach and high ground matter, make hard choices, and try to make it home in one piece. When your legionary dies, and he often will, you start again, a little wiser.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
87% of 2,477 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$7.99Legends of Eisenwald
Lead a small feudal army through a medieval Germany where superstitions have teeth. Turn-based battles where every move is an attack, fighters you equip one by one, and a story that bends to your choices. No elves, no dragons: just people, their sins, and the occasional walking dead.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
76% of 1,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99The Iron Oath
Lead a mercenary company for hire in the harsh fantasy realm of Caelum. You hire and shape warriors, rogues and spellcasters, take contracts from vying factions, fight turn-based battles on hex grids, and live with your choices as cities fall and decades pass. Worth playing for careful squad tactics tied to long-term company management.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
75% of 774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99The Wind and Wilting Blossom
Navigate the war-torn lands of an alternate history Heian Japan battling yokai hordes in challenging turn-based combat. Encounter hundreds of story events, level-up your party, and unlock new allies and weapons. Die, learn from your mistakes, and try again.
Dark, Replayable, Hand-drawn
94% of 167 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Dungeon Rats
A turn-based, party-based RPG set in the Age of Decadence world and focused on squad level tactical combat. Fight your way out of prison mine or die trying.
Dark, Replayable, Brutal
77% of 636 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99Stoneshard
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about life as a medieval mercenary in war-torn Aldor. Take contracts, crawl procedurally generated dungeons, manage hunger, wounds and morale, and build any fighter you like from 200+ abilities. Death costs progress, so every trip needs planning.
Dark, Replayable, Tense
74% of 34,569 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 961$24.99Wartales
Wartales puts you in charge of a shabby mercenary company in a plague-ruined medieval land, chasing coin instead of glory. Recruit fighters, feed them, gear them up, and pick your contracts, from guard duty to bounties, with turn-based battles and a campfire waiting after.
Dark, Story-driven
85% of 32,586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,834$34.99King Arthur: Knight's Tale
You are Mordred, and you killed King Arthur. He killed you right back, and now you are both alive again on a cursed Avalon, where the Lady of the Lake wants you to finish the job. A dark, turn-based tactical RPG about leading knights, rebuilding Camelot and living with every choice.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
83% of 6,782 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$44.99Shieldwall Chronicles: Swords of the North
Shieldwall Chronicles: Swords of the North is a gripping, tactical RPG that lets you build a powerful band of adventurers and partake in a grand adventure.
Dark, Replayable
74% of 171 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Overfall
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
Replayable, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
75% of 358 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like Heads Will Roll: Downfall
Valor of Man
Forge your party. Master your fate. In this turn-based roguelite RPG, lead four heroes through a fractured realm of danger and destiny.
88% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Those Who Rule
Lead three recruits through a grim tactical war, where positioning wins fights and decisions shape the story.
89% of 1,146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$17.99
Dead Weight
Sail a flying pirate ship between floating islands, shove monsters off tiny battlefields and manage fuel, fatigue and creeping madness, one run at a…
81% of 616 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$12.99
Together in Battle
Manage a team of fantasy gladiators in this Fire Emblem-style strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, and emergent…
90% of 135 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
Lead a squad of five through turn-based battles on a cursed island, rebuilding your champion with each new run.
81% of 1,348 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 122$24.99
Lootbound
A tactical roguelite where the real dungeon is your backpack.
75% of 1,372 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$8.99
Spear Song
Ancient Slavic knights fight against evil in turn-based tactical combat!
88% of 171 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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.
76% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$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?
90% of 452 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Heads Will Roll: Reforged
A grim text RPG where a footman fights turn-based battles and makes hard choices, and every death starts a new life in a reshuffled Hundred Years'…
82% of 1,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$24.99
Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia.
94% of 475 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Newest games like Heads Will Roll: Downfall
Veterum
March a doomed order through a grim open world and win turn-based battles by bending morale, weather and light to your will.
84% of 252 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$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.
76% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$12.99
Lootbound
A tactical roguelite where the real dungeon is your backpack.
75% of 1,372 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$8.99
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.
76% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Dead Weight
Sail a flying pirate ship between floating islands, shove monsters off tiny battlefields and manage fuel, fatigue and creeping madness, one run at a…
81% of 616 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$12.99
Valor of Man
Forge your party. Master your fate. In this turn-based roguelite RPG, lead four heroes through a fractured realm of danger and destiny.
88% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Vampire's Fall 2
Rise as a vampire in a hand-drawn dark fantasy world where humans are food and the night is yours.
91% of 4,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 100Free
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
Lead a squad of five through turn-based battles on a cursed island, rebuilding your champion with each new run.
81% of 1,348 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 122$24.99
Together in Battle
Manage a team of fantasy gladiators in this Fire Emblem-style strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, and emergent…
90% of 135 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Age of Reforging: The Freelands
Take odd jobs, gather a squad, and shape your own legend across an open medieval land where every choice leaves a mark.
71% of 2,356 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$29.99
Astral Throne
Uncover the mystery of a land beset by a Falling Star's curse in this Roguelike Strategy RPG inspired by the classics.
80% of 272 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Those Who Rule
Lead three recruits through a grim tactical war, where positioning wins fights and decisions shape the story.
89% of 1,146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$17.99