6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Pawnbarian. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Pawnbarian.
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: 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: 21/04/2023
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GBA, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a re-release of the classic turn-based strategy game on Nintendo Switch. You take charge of an army in strategic, turn-based combat. With land, air, and naval units across the battlefield, you work to take down enemy...
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: 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.
Release Date: 30/10/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Spaceland is a quick turn-based strategy game where you command sci-fi troopers to shoot, kick, blow up and destroy the enemy. It's a little like a game of chess as you equip and plan your missions, before carefully moving and attacking on your turn.
25 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Pawnbarian. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Pawnbarian.
Release Date: 16/11/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PS Vita, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Pixels
Steam-powered robots fighting for space supremacy sounds like the script for a 1950s B-movie. As in those matinee hits, the point here isn’t realism but interesting characters. Like the related games (SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Quest), SteamWorld...
Release Date: 21/09/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chessplosion is an action, puzzle game where you drop chess pieces on a board to trigger bombs in the shape of their related chess moves. Your aim is to use the different pieces (and bomb attacks) to trap opponents like Bomberman. No prior chess...
Release Date: 21/09/2021
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Potion Craft is a puzzle adventure game where you create potions in an ancient looking workshop to send you bottle around the map. You combine ingredients, fire and water to move your bottle along the map to the target location and brew a potion to help...
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: 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: 18/09/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid and Weather
Stormbound is a strategic battle game combining Chess and Clash Of Clans gameplay. You build an army by earning cards for different units, defences and abilities. These have to be carefully chosen to do well in the battles...
Release Date: 25/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Hand-Made and Open World
King Pins is a small real time strategy game where you command a small group of people to gather resources, build bases, farms and towers to defend yourself or attack the three other encampments. It's like Age of Empires but in miniature fashion....
Release Date: 01/12/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
No Plan B is a tactical role-play game where you plan missions to neutralise various threats. Unusually, you don't directly control your team during the action. Instead, you plan orders for them ahead of time then watch as they execute your commands in...
Release Date: 18/04/2019
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4 and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Auto Chess is a strategy game where you set-up automated actions to gain a competitive advantage. As you play you purchase units that will battle for you, each unit has different attributes that can collaborate with other units. The goal ultimately is...
Release Date: 02/08/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Bomb Club is a puzzle game where you use an arsenal of whacky bombs to clear the board with a chain reaction. You place and trigger the bombs to ensure a single chain and complete the level. It's a novel combination of fun explosions and puzzle solving...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Tactical Breach Wizards is a small-scale, turn-based fighting and shooting game. You play a team of wizards in modern-day tactical gear, breaching and clearing rooms full of enemies with a combination of guns, abilities and spells.
Release Date: 30/04/2015, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chroma Squad is a strategy game themed around the The Power Rangers TV show. Rather than the heroes, you play the stunt actors who quit the show to start their own Power Rangers-inspired series. Rather than kill enemies in the turn based encounters,...
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made
Fights in Tight Spaces is a turn based fighting game where you use your deck of cards to win combat battles in small rooms and other locations. As you progress you gain more cards and build a deck tailored to each battle.
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: 24/05/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made
Floppy Knights is an adventure where you battle enemies using cards and turn-based strategy. With your robot, Carlton, and a group of virtual knights, you must liberate your town from hostile invaders. It looks like Advance Wars but has a unique blend...
Release Date: 11/02/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Knight's Retreat is a chess-themed puzzle game. It's not played on a chess board, but the pieces do move as they usually do. Rather than check-mate, your aim is to get your Knights back to their home squares in each level.
Release Date: 13/10/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Text
Really Bad Chess is like chess, but with random pieces selected for each player. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns. Starting positions are also non-standard. It sounds like a bad idea (hence the name) but actually opens the imposing chess challenge...
Release Date: 12/01/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Grid
Tharsis is a tough strategy-simulation game where you must survive a doomed mission to Mars. You roll dice whose outcome can either help repair the ship or make things worse by injuring crew mates or causing further damage. The dice foreground the...
Release Date: 09/12/2022
Platforms: Android
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
1 Bit Survivor is an adventure survival game about driving your car across a country in the aftermath of an unstoppable virus. It stands out for its limited colours and simple-to-play hard-to-master playstyle. But really this is a game that's great...
Release Date: 16/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
After Midnight is a small puzzle-style role play game where you lead a team of animal medics to contain a virus outbreak in a hospital. It's a simple game that offers a window into the life of a health worker. Subsidised by the National Centre for...
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Bandapes is a turn based fighting game where you gather a team of fighting apes who fight using musical note combinations in a turn-based battles with other ape squads. It's a wacky and unusual combination of rhythm and turn taking battle simulation.
Release Date: 02/01/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Web
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chessformer is a running and jumping game where you are trying to capture the king. The twist is that it's turn based and you move around obstacles using chess pieces that can only behave as they do in the game of chess.
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...
Release Date: 21/06/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
DungeonTop Spell Sword Cards is a dungeon-exploring adventure where you play cards to fight your way through the monster-infested levels to collect loot. As you play you collect Spells, Weapons and Unit cards to help your fight. Where it really comes to...
Release Date: 01/03/2023
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Board, Grid, Hand-Made and Weather
Konkan Coast Pirate Solutions is a puzzle game where you guide pirate ships to do pirate-ship-type things. You play by placing instructions and interactive items in the path of the ships so that when you press play, they sail to their destination and...
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