Games like Recruits

Miss the brutal and fast-paced pull of Recruits? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Full Metal Sergeant
Be the drill instructor! Insult recruits with no remorse! Can you transform flabby recruits into lean war machines within 12 weeks?
Replayable
85% of 130 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
82% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
RUNNING WITH RIFLES
A top-down tactical shooter where you are one common soldier among thousands. Fight over trenches, towns and deserts, loot fallen enemies, rise through the ranks, and call in artillery when the line wobbles. Simple to pick up, surprisingly deep, and far better with friends in co-op or PvP.
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Chaotic, Replayable
87% of 14,729 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 101$14.99
Invasion Machine
Modern-warfare RTS/sandbox game inspired by the real conflicts in the Middle East. Fight a counter-insurgency war, protect the civilian population, casevac your wounded and decide how the world sees your struggle. And remember - no one gets left behind.
Brutal, Dark, Replayable
63% of 618 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Warbox
A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone. Players will have access to a variety of tools and features that give them access to customize and change the battlefield however they like.
Brutal, Chaotic, Dark
54% of 3,459 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Black One Blood Brothers
A tactical squad shooter in the spirit of the old Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games. Plan every operator's route on the map, then take control of any of them in first or third person. Twenty campaign missions, permanent death, seven extra modes and a map editor: it rewards patience and gives it back in spades.
Brutal, Dark, Replayable
77% of 1,401 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99
One Military Camp
An evil maniac has taken everything but one patch of land, and the last hope is a rundown military camp: yours. Rebuild it, recruit hopeless privates, train them into elite specialists and send them out to win the war. A colorful, funny management sim with base building, budgets and a PA system you can shout into.
Replayable
75% of 696 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$6.24
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
90% of 12,872 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 801$39.99
M.E.R.C.
Experience non-stop, real-time tactical combat with a 4-person squad. Upgrade and recruit units, enhance special abilities, while acquiring better weapons and gear. Take your toughest recruits into action in single player or co-op multiplayer and save humanity from the suppressive Manta force.
Also in Co-op · Dark
58% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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, Replayable
90% of 927 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$19.99
TrenchesWIP
A combined-arms first-person shooter in an alternate history where the two world wars blur into one. Dig trenches, raise bases, buy tanks and planes, and fight over a battlefield that craters and collapses under fire. Bring friends: the servers are quiet, but the sandbox is deep.
Fast-paced, Chaotic, Dark
73% of 1,622 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
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.
Brutal, Dark, Replayable
70% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$34.99

Cheaper than Recruits

One Military Camp

Turn a shabby base and a squad of hopeless recruits into an army of elite specialists, one budget and one bad joke at a time.

$6.24

Attack on Toys

Command plastic armies from above, then drop into the battle yourself as the waves close in on your HQ.

$6.99

Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler

You are the CEO of a private military company. Recruit capable mercenaries, purchase weapons, and develop your mercenaries according to their roles…

$5.99

Live Hard, Die Hard

Busy but Addictive! This BATTLE x MEDICAL Counter-Invasion Real-Time Strategy is like nothing you've ever seen!

$4.99

Metal Thunder

Fly an AC-130 gunship, shred waves of enemies with upgrades each run, and bring a friend along in online co-op.

$8.79

Stickman Trenches

Command riflemen, tanks and artillery in quick 2D battles where one push across no man's land decides everything.

$2.99

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

Tiny Troopers 2

Tiny Troopers are back and better than ever! Decked out in new uniforms and sporting the latest in military hardware, the troopers are just itching…

$5.99

Flesh Eaters

Lead a squad through short, brutal survival runs where every scrap looted and every barricade built decides who makes it out alive.

$2.99

Acceptable Losses

Acceptable Losses is a short, replayable WWI command and management game.

$5.59

Trench Lord: Eastern Front

The enemy has invaded the territory, the motherland needs you, soldier! Gather your troops and defeat all enemies!

$5.99

Future Breach 64

Breach and Clear areas tactically in a team-based shooter.

$2.99

Hidden gems like Recruits

Drone Sector

Drone Sector puts you in command of a futuristic gunship supporting troops on the ground.

$16.99

Plastic Battlegrounds

Set up the battlefield with an ever growing list of units, vehicles, and emplacements!

$9.99

Xenopurge

Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.

$12.49

Rising Front

Fight in first person or command from above while tanks, cavalry and planes turn the front line into glorious mayhem.

$14.99

Acceptable Losses

Acceptable Losses is a short, replayable WWI command and management game.

$5.59

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.

$19.99

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

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

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Draw up a squad plan, pause the action to adjust it, and watch the breach unfold in real time.

$24.99

Metal Thunder

Fly an AC-130 gunship, shred waves of enemies with upgrades each run, and bring a friend along in online co-op.

$8.79

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

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