Games like It Stares Back

Looking for that same surreal and story-driven spark as It Stares Back? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Space Tales
Space Tales is a sci-fi RTS where you build fortified bases, manage resources, and command retro-futuristic armies. Adapt to deadly alien factions, capture huge monsters and turn them into powerful allies as humanity fights to survive among the stars.
Story-driven, Mysterious
78% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The Scouring
An old school fantasy RTS with a twist: lead humans or orcs in fast, destructive battles, or hand your base to the AI and fight as a single hero. Defend against undead at night, level every unit, and raid dungeons for loot. Play solo, with friends, or against up to eight players.
Replayable
87% of 1,180 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$17.49
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.
Replayable
90% of 452 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Castle Battles
Castle Battles streamlines the mechanics of classic, top-down strategy to create a fast paced style of gameplay like no other. Expand your empire by building castles near bountiful resources, collect gold to amass outlandish armies, and swarm your enemies in 40 unique levels.
Replayable
91% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
From Glory To Goo
A sci-fi survival RTS where you build a colony on a hostile planet while waves of alien Goo close in. Expand, fortify and call down orbital fire from your ship overhead, then hold the line. Captains level up, factions play differently, maps are procedurally generated, and every run dares you to last a little longer.
Dark, Replayable
96% of 1,871 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$11.99
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
A dark fantasy survival RTS where light is your only weapon against the dark. Build a bastion, push back a living death fog, and hold the walls when tens of thousands of Nightmares come flooding out of the earth. Play the campaign, endless Survival, or co-op with a friend.
Dark, Replayable
74% of 9,547 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$27.99
Songs of Silence
A turn-based 4X strategy set in a hand-painted Art Nouveau fantasy world. Lead Queen Lorelai's people to a new home, build armies that fight their own battles, and tip the scales mid-fight with hero abilities. A 10+ hour story campaign, skirmishes against AI or friends, and three expansions.
Story-driven, Replayable, Atmospheric
79% of 2,409 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$29.99
Godsworn
A classic RTS where you play a god. Lead Baltic deities or the archangel Michael, grow a village of worshippers, and send mythic armies against crusaders in a fully voiced campaign built for solo or co-op play.
Story-driven, Replayable
93% of 814 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$29.99
Age of Fear: The Undead King
Play as either Sir Edward, a noble Knight defending the Human Kingdom, or Krill, a wicked Necromancer with an unearthly lust for power! The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.
Story-driven, Replayable
89% of 295 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Wizards and Warlords
Wizards and Warlords is an indie turn-based strategy game, where you play in a randomly generated fantasy world, contending with rival wizards, warlords, roaming marauders and hidden ancient evils. Create a customized sovereign or choose from one of many predefined templates.
Replayable
82% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Legends of Ellaria
Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.
Story-driven, Replayable
55% of 752 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Heroes of Annihilated Empires - is a fantasy-based game from GSC Game World in the genre of RTS vs RPG for PC. 4 unique races awaits for the heroes, who want to fight in an Epic scale battles!
Story-driven
87% of 595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$7.99

Cheaper than It Stares Back

Space Tales

Space Tales is a sci-fi RTS where you build fortified bases, manage resources, and command retro-futuristic armies.

$5.99

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$11.99

Heroes of Annihilated Empires

Heroes of Annihilated Empires - is a fantasy-based game from GSC Game World in the genre of RTS vs RPG for PC. 4 unique races awaits for the heroes…

$7.99

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown

Lead knights, wizards and one of three peoples to war, and let your choice of guild shape every battle.

$4.99

Terra Incognita Chapter One: The Descendant

Terra Incognita is a classic role playing game. The world of Terra is slowly falling into chaos.

$1.99

Creeper World: Anniversary Edition

Build your defenses on high ground and fight back a rising tide that flows like liquid across the map.

$4.99

Reignfall

Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action.

$4.99

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

The Dark Legions

The Dark Legions is a 3d real-time strategy game in the medieval ages. You can command your army and build your empire through story driven missions.

$1.99

Risen Kingdom

Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.

$2.99

Trash of the Titans

It's turn-based fantasy tactics with trash animals. Defend your trash from invading rats, and eat your trash to upgrade your team.

$8.99

Lost Technology

Lost Technology is a simulation game in which more than 100 characters belonging to 12 different factions battle to conquer each other’s territories.

$4.99

Hidden gems like It Stares Back

Rogue Command

Command units, call down bases and draft a fresh build after every battle in a fast sci-fi RTS where each run plays out differently.

$19.99

Tabletop Tavern

A roguelike RTS on a tabletop battlefield: build an army from scratch, command it through a brutal campaign, and lose it all to start again.

$19.99

Veterum

March a doomed order through a grim open world and win turn-based battles by bending morale, weather and light to your will.

$19.99

The Scouring

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

$17.49

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$11.99

Godsworn

Build a village of worshippers, raise divine armies, and fight the crusades of heaven in a story-driven RTS.

$29.99

ZeroSpace

Lead huge armies and orbital strikes in a fast sci-fi war, or join a friend in a co-op campaign that changes every season.

$39.99

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

Worship

Convert followers into a faithful army, paint occult rituals in blood and prepare a world-ending god's arrival.

$19.99

Chromosome Evil 2

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

$19.99

Whispers of the Eyeless

Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG.

$12.99

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

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