Games like Hero Academy
Closest overall match: Small World 2 (★ 3.1). Highest rated: Frozen Synapse at ★ 3.3. Quickest to finish: Galcon Fusion at about 1 hours.
We compared Hero Academy against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are Singleplayer, Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Turn-Based.
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61%
1. Small World 2
Shares Turn-Based, Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 10, Board Games, Indie
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58%
2. Space Hulk
Shares Turn-Based, Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 58
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 10, Board Games, Indie
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57%
3. Talisman: Digital Edition
Shares Turn-Based, Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 51
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 29%
- Shared genres
- 10, Board Games, Indie
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56%
4. Sentinels of the Multiverse
Shares Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Playtime
- 5h
- Shared genres
- 10, Board Games, Indie
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55%
5. Galcon Fusion
Shares Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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55%
6. Frozen Synapse
Shares Asynchronous Multiplayer, Turn-Based and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 22%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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55%
7. Interplanetary
Shares Turn-Based, Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.5
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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54%
8. Avernum 6
Shares Turn-Based and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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53%
9. Cubemen
Shares Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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53%
10. Talisman: Prologue
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 1.8
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 10, Board Games, Indie
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53%
11. Skyward Collapse
Shares Turn-Based, Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Metacritic
- 64
- Playtime
- 2h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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53%
12. Spacecom
Shares Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Hero Academy?
On our similarity model, Small World 2 is the closest match to Hero Academy — shares Turn-Based, Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher; released within 2 years.
Which game like Hero Academy is rated highest?
Frozen Synapse holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.3/5 from 177 players.
Are there games like Hero Academy on Android or iOS?
Yes — we found 10 games like Hero Academy on Android & iOS. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Hero Academy on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.