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Altar Games · 2014 · 94 % positive of 2,030

24 games that play like Original War and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Earth 2140, StarFringe: Adversus and WARSHIFT.

Player tags

  • Strategy
  • RTS
  • Sci-fi
  • Singleplayer
  • Real-Time with Pause
  • Time Travel
  • RPG
  • Indie

At a glance

What games like Original War have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Original War: Strategy (24 of 24), RTS (22) and Sci-fi (20).
  • They came out between 2006 and 2026, 15 of them after Original War (2014).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (96 % positive of 13,468).
  • 6 games both play and look like Original War, among them Earth 2140, Harvest: Massive Encounter and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

By gameplay

Plays like Original War

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Ground Control II: Operation Exodus89 % positive of 291Shared: Strategy · RTS · Sci-fi
  2. Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance96 % positive of 13,468Shared: Strategy · RTS · Sci-fi
  3. Earth 2150 Trilogy76 % positive of 874Shared: Strategy · RTS · Sci-fi
  4. Retro Commander76 % positive of 315Shared: Strategy · RTS · Wargame
  5. Warzone 210090 % positive of 1,500Shared: Strategy · RTS · Sci-fi
  6. War, the Game68 % positive of 458Shared: Strategy · RTS · War
  7. Total Annihilation96 % positive of 3,477Shared: Strategy · RTS · Sci-fi
  8. UFO: Aftershock74 % positive of 233Shared: Strategy · Sci-fi · Real-Time with Pause
  9. Five Nations83 % positive of 243Shared: Strategy · RTS · Sci-fi
  10. Earth 216070 % positive of 1,405Shared: Strategy · RTS · Sci-fi
  11. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation74 % positive of 4,772Shared: Strategy · RTS · Sci-fi
  12. War Selection85 % positive of 21,854Shared: Strategy · RTS · War

By look

Looks like Original War

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Perimeter85 % positive of 247
  2. Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising76 % positive of 455
  3. Space Empires V72 % positive of 453
  4. UFO: Aftershock74 % positive of 233
  5. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel79 % positive of 2,611
  6. Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance96 % positive of 13,468
  7. Warzone 210090 % positive of 1,500
  8. Earth 214062 % positive of 562
  9. M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration87 % positive of 181
  10. Sudden Strike 370 % positive of 200
  11. 9th Company: Roots Of Terror58 % positive of 234
  12. Gorky 1779 % positive of 2,027

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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