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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bad North. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bad North.
Release Date: 21/07/2023
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Day and Night
Pikmin 4 is an action strategy game where you direct tiny, plant-like creatures to clean up the world and collect treasure. Different coloured Pikmins have different abilities, with several new types in this fourth game. The challenge is using the right...
Release Date: 30/08/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Tinykin is a puzzle game where you play Milo. You have landed on Earth in 1991 but are tiny. To survive you catch hundreds of mysterious Tinykin who can use their powers to create ladders, bridges and explosions to help you find a way home.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night, Grid and Hand-Made
Trackline Express is a strategy game where you build and resource a train on an adventure through an unforgiving desert. Play involves running around to gather scarce materials to create the resource you need - coal, ore and wood for starters. It...
Release Date: 27/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Stadia, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Hand-Made and Pixels
Into the Breach is a fantasy turn-based battle. It's set in a future where humanity fights an army of giant monsters. You control mechs equipped with a variety of weapons and armour in carefully coordinated actions played out on super-small tile-based...
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Transformers: Battlegrounds is a strategy game that's accessible for a range of abilities. It offers a robot-themed XCOM-style game for younger players.
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Barbearian is a hectic action game where you fight through three-level missions by hacking and slashing hundreds of tiny enemies, collecting cash and rescuing minions to add to your army. It's a role-play game you can take on in bite-sized portions each...
28 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bad North. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bad North.
Release Date: 21/10/2015
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Kingdom is a retro-look strategy game where you must defend your town from the nightly attack of zombies as you develop your technology and civilisation day by day. But unlike other tower-defence games – where you set up defences and fend off waves of...
Release Date: 21/03/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PSP, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Grid, Hand-Made and Weather
Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a turn-based strategy game where you take command of a squad of soldiers and use your wits and tactics to plan and lead them to battle. You play as Commander Claude Wallace and the soldiers of Squad E and experience a gripping...
Release Date: 14/08/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Factorio is a construction strategy game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must harvest resources to create industry to build a rocket to escape (or fall in love with running your factory and stay on longer).
Release Date: 14/01/2014, updated in 2016
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
The Banner Saga is a beautiful fantasy adventure where your strategic choices directly affect your personal story and the world around you. You play as two characters, each with their own related story.
Release Date: 01/04/2019, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (known as TABS) is a fighting game where you choose different armies and troops to battle each other in an automatic simulation that models their offensive and defensive abilities. Once set up, the fight is largely...
Release Date: 10/11/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Assassin's Creed Valhalla is the twelfth game in the Assassins Creed Series, an open world action-adventure that takes place over several main story quests as well as many optional side missions.
Release Date: 19/03/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Hand-Made and Open World
Cozy Grove is a life simulation where you camp on a hand-drawn island. You play a scout and explore the ever-changing island's forest to find secrets and help the local ghosts. Like Animal Crossing, it has a children's storybook look but is a...
Release Date: 10/06/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: Switch, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Open World and Text
A Dark Room is an adventure where you try and survive in the wild. The world is depicted with just text but leads you into a dense narrative with intriguing visitors and a steadily expanding world. It has a simple start – a single option to stoke a...
Release Date: 17/09/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
Outlanders is a building simulation where you are the leader of a group of regular people building a town together. Some want to survive, while others want to build amazing things. It’s up to you to guide them towards their goal
Release Date: 11/08/2016
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Reigns is an adventure strategy game where you take charge of a kingdom, one decision at a time. Each choice is presented to you as a playing card with some advice or a question from one of the 38 different characters. Swipe left or right to make a...
Release Date: 13/08/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Dice
Dicey Dungeons is a video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons. Here the novelty is that these cards combine with dice rolls to determine who wins battles.
Release Date: 26/10/2001, updated in 2009
Out Now: GameCube, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Pikmin is a real-time strategy game where the main character Captain Olimar crash lands on an alien planet filled with strange small creatures called Pikmin. You are able to control and use these creatures to knock down walls, build bridges and attack...
Release Date: 19/05/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Dice, Open World and Pixels
Curious Expedition is an expedition simulation, in the late 19th century. You join historical people to explore a world map to gain fame, science and treasures. You recruit explorers and equip them for what they may face, then set out on your next...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather
Sons of Valhalla is a strategy base building game. You play the son of a Viking Jarl aiming to conquer England and save the love of your life. Like Kingdom, you incrementally upgrade your fortifications, farming and armies to defend...
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Disc Room is an action survival game set in a sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse. You are a scientist from the future exploring the facility and must get through each room that is filled with sharp discs by running and dodging. You have special...
Release Date: 23/08/2013, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Death Crown is a minimalist strategy game where you play Death commanding her legions and punishing humanity. You play in a world of hexagons to place buildings and send troops to attack or defend as you try and defeat the opposing castle.
Release Date: 24/01/2008, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
PixelJunk Monsters is a strategy game where you build defensive towers to defeat a linear march of enemies before they reach your base and kill your creatures.
Release Date: 01/02/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Wargroove is a fantasy war game, similar to Advanced Wars from the Gameboy era, where players take turns in a variety of battles. Computer-controlled and human opponents compete to achieve objectives and be the last player remaining.
Release Date: 24/09/2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Pawnbarian is a puzzle game where you attack enemies in a dungeon based on chess moves. You build a deck of different pieces and use them in battles
Release Date: 21/08/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Tenderfoot Tactics is a role-play adventure game where you play a young adventurer in a vast open world. The visuals and the Final Fantasy Tactics-style battles look simple but offer depth that requires you to learn the deterministic combat system and...
Release Date: 13/03/2015
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Cartoon
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. is a turn-based strategy game where an elite group of soldiers (inspired by characters from American literature) defend Earth from alien invaders in an alternate steam-powered future. While it sounds wacky, there's a surprising...
Release Date: 21/04/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Rymdkapsel is a strategy game where you command a stylised space station filled with minions. You make decisions about to spend your manpower and expand your space station. It's minimalist and intentionally opaque to understand, but through multiple...
Release Date: 02/06/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Card Shark is an adventure game about a French 18th century con artist. With your partner, you go from location to location swindling politicians and royals with the devious card cheat mini-games you learn. It looks like a card game, but actually it's a...
Release Date: 29/09/2015, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Jotun is a fighting game where you prove yourself to the Norse gods by defeating mythical beasts. You forge your way to each beast's lair, then take them on, armed with only your axe and the magical abilities you're granted. These larger-than-life...
Release Date: 06/12/2016
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a stealth strategy game set in Japan, where a new Shogun employs five recruits to use assassination, sabotage and espionage to enforce peace in the country. Play involves commanding a team of specialists to sneak...
Release Date: 21/04/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Warpips is a quick-to-learn strategy war game where you deploy units to beat enemies in a surprisingly deep tug-of-war battle. You work to pick the right mix of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes to beat the enemy forces. Unlike other war games...
Release Date: 07/12/2015
Out Now: PC, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Helldivers is a challenging cooperative shooting game where four players take on the role of an elite unit protecting Earth against alien attack. From an overhead perspective, you direct your character through the battlefield, shooting the enemy or...
Release Date: 28/11/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Last Train Home is a strategy game where you command of a legion of soldiers as they travel home by train after the Great War. You guide them in battle, issuing commands and developing strategies, then upgrade and fortify the train you use to travel...
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