Games like SteamWorld Heist on Android & iOS
Closest overall match: Hard West (★ 3.4). Highest rated: Transistor at ★ 4.2. Quickest to finish: Transistor at about 4 hours.
We compared SteamWorld Heist against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 8 came closest. The strongest common threads are Full controller support, 2D and controller support. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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59%
1. Hard West
Shares Turn-Based Tactics, controller support, role-playing, Turn-Based and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.6 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 3, RPG, 10, Indie
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56%
2. Transistor
Shares role-playing, Turn-Based, Female Protagonist, Great Soundtrack and 2D and 5 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 66%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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55%
3. Dust: An Elysian Tail
Shares controller support, role-playing, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.3 lower.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 58%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie, 83
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55%
4. Chroma Squad
Shares Turn-Based Tactics, role-playing, Turn-Based, Great Soundtrack and 2D and 4 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- RPG, 10, Indie
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55%
5. This Is the Police 2
Shares Turn-Based, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 64
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 58%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, 10, Indie
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55%
6. Hyper Light Drifter
Shares controller support, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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55%
7. Rogue Legacy
Shares controller support, role-playing, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 2 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 47%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie, 83
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54%
8. Teslagrad
Shares Steampunk, controller support, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.6 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like SteamWorld Heist on Android & iOS?
On our similarity model, Hard West is the closest match to SteamWorld Heist on Android & iOS — shares Turn-Based Tactics, controller support, role-playing, Turn-Based and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.6 lower; same release year.
Which game like SteamWorld Heist is rated highest?
Transistor holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.2/5 from 1,474 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against SteamWorld Heist 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.
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