6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Transformers: Battlegrounds. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Transformers: Battlegrounds.
Release Date: 13/03/2015
Platforms: 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: 31/10/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Bad North is a stylised strategy fighting game. You control an army defending an island and must train and develop your forces efficiently. The simple visuals and knife-edge Viking combat along with the jeopardy of losing precious troops make this a lot...
Release Date: 27/02/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Stadia, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ 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: 12/09/2017
Platforms: Mac, PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Tooth and Tail is a real-time strategy game about anthropomorphic animals. Before each match, you choose a commander from four factions and six units from a pool of twenty. You then use these units to build farms, lookouts and gather resources.
Release Date: 02/02/1998, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS2, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Open World
Age of Empires is a strategy game where you command an ancient civilisation in real-time and must develop from hunter-gatherers to advanced forms of defence and war. This is similar territory to Civilization but focuses on...
Release Date: 01/02/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
This 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.
24 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Transformers: Battlegrounds. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Transformers: Battlegrounds.
Release Date: 29/08/2017
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a chess-like strategy game where you control cartoon rabbits (the Rabbids) and Nintendo characters in turn-based battles with fantastical weapons through four different worlds.
Release Date: 30/08/2013, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
868-HACK is a puzzle game where you hack a computer program to collect as much data as you can. It's a unique puzzle as collecting data triggers more enemies to appear so you walk a delicate balance between collecting as much as possible, but not so...
Release Date: 06/11/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
PAW Patrol Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay is a running, jumping and exploration game. It expands this platforming action towards a full 3D world, while keeping accessibility focused on younger players.
Release Date: 09/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Ben 10: Power Trip is an open-world action game where you run, jump and explore to save the day. It's simple platforming and brawling that you can play alone or in split-screen more with another player as Kevin Levin.
Release Date: 26/10/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Pikmin 3 Deluxe is the latest in a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different colour Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to...
Release Date: 28/07/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Grounded is a survival game where you are tiny and find yourself in someone’s back garden. It’s like Honey I Shrunk The Kids meets Fortnite. Ants, cockroaches, and bees pose a threat along with environmental hazards like water, tall grass and large...
Release Date: 17/11/2005, updated in 2020
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is a series of fighting games where you control different cartoon creatures as they make their way through randomly-generated dungeons, defeating enemies and adding them to your team. It's a simple roguelike game where you take...
Release Date: 01/01/1994, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
X-Com (which became XCOM) is a science fiction strategic battle game where you control units to stop an alien invasion. The long running series has come in many forms, but always has in common the finely tuned turn-based ground combat where you control...
Release Date: 28/09/2011, updated in 2021
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
The Binding of Isaac is a series of adventure games where you progress through randomly generated rooms, collecting items and fighting off monsters. It's a twist on the simple Zelda dungeon, with hundreds of enemies, room variations and upgrades. The...
Release Date: 20/10/2022
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is a strategy game where you control Ubisoft's Rabbids (cartoon rabbits) and Nintendo's Mario team in turn-based battles. It expands upon the previous game by adding a wider...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Project Timi: Sasha's curse is a rhythmic platform game where you lay traps and defeat enemies in time to the beat. Set inside a small child's dream, you need to save Lucity Town from the nightmares and restore peace in a unique combination of puzzles,...
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Platforms: iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
AR Tanks is a strategy game where you can virtually build a battle on any tabletop or floor. In the game you navigate tanks around structures superimposed into your living space; you're also able to get up and move around the space to get a 360* view of...
Release Date: 07/10/2022, updated in 2023
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Marvel's Midnight Suns is an action-strategy game set within the Marvel universe. You interact with and play alongside famous Marvel superheroes in turn-based battles, where cards dictate the attacks you can use. It's the way you must adjust your...
Release Date: 29/09/2022
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Moonbreaker is a strategy game that plays like a physical tabletop game. Using hand-painted figures you fight opponents in tactical turn-based battles in a new universe created by bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. It has the detailed painting,...
Release Date: 15/11/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Not Chess is a puzzle game similar to Chess, but you only have one piece, which morphs into whatever piece you take. It's a simple way of getting to grips with some of the basic rules of chess in a low-pressure, single-player environment, while also...
Release Date: 02/09/1994, updated in 2022
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Live A Live is a remake of the 1994 game released only in Japan, it's a fighting role-playing game where you play seven characters across time in unique stories. In each, you defeat enemies in tactical turn-based fights where each attack has a distinct...
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid
Chezzle is similar to chess, but here you only have one piece that changes to whatever you take. It features a relaxing soundscape and encouraging messages, and allows you to get the grips of the rules of chess at your own pace while also creating a...
Release Date: 20/04/1990, updated in 2023
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, GBA, GameCube, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Grid
Fire Emblem is a series of strategy games where you help an ensemble cast of characters fight off evil. You gather heroes, unlock weapons and special abilities to aid your fight in tactical turn-based combat. It's not just a tactics game though, just as...
Release Date: 31/01/2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Inkulinati is a strategy game where you fight an opponent using medieval drawings. Using a range of weapons, attacks, defences and abilities, you move your characters, based on real medieval drawings, around the page to defeat enemies as a story about...
Release Date: 27/06/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Lairchitect is a strategy game where you build defences in your dungeon to prevent heroes from taking your Soul Stones. It's a twist on dungeon role playing games, where instead of playing the hero you are the owner of the dungeon (like the classic...
Release Date: 15/08/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Blocks
Megabyte Punch is run, jump and fight game where you play a customisable robot. Along with the retro visuals, as you defeat enemy robots you collect their special parts to make yourself the ultimate fighter. At the end you can then battle your robot in...
Release Date: 13/10/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Text
Midnight Protocol is a strategy game about hacking that is controlled entirely with the keyboard. You type commands and interactions to hack into different systems and drain them of resources while trying to keep yourself hidden and safe. It's this...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Wandering Sword is a combat-focused role-play game where you traverse ancient China with a band of swordsmen to master the highest forms of martial arts. You explore the countryside, towns and cities to bond with townspeople and recruit warriors to help...
Release Date: 20/01/2022
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Dice and Grid
Luckitown is a turn-based strategy game. You build a town around your castle to defend it from incoming enemies. You then roll dice and select combinations of results that allow you to buy and place defensive buildings while every turn the enemies move...
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