Heliborne Collection similar games & best alternatives

Heliborne Collection

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Rotary-wing aviation and helicopter combat with a dynamic battlefield and the support of ground forces. Appreciated for MMO elements and an addictive gameplay loop. Use tactics and make strategic decisions or fly around and shoot in historically accurate maps.

What works

  • Engaging helicopter combat
  • Active and friendly community
  • Diverse helicopter selection and loadouts
  • Cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes
  • Good value for price with no pay-to-win

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited number of maps
  • Some bugs and technical issues
  • Lack of deep narrative or campaign
  • Imbalance in pvp factions reported
  • Small developer team limits update speed

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Forts

  • Deadswitch 3

  • CryoFall

  • War Brokers

  • Sky Knights

  • War Dust VR: 32v32 Battlefields

More fantastical

Games that feels like Heliborne Collection but with more imaginative fiction

  • Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

  • Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator

  • Dinogen Online

  • Executive Assault

  • Mechabellum

  • Supreme Commander

More story-driven

Games that feels like Heliborne Collection but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™

  • Steel Division 2

  • Falcon 4.0

  • Combat Mission Shock Force 2

  • Praetorians

  • WARNO

Less intimate

Games that feels like Heliborne Collection but with less focus on close relationships

  • Oriental Empires

  • FPV Kamikaze Drone

  • Steel Division: Normandy 44

  • Deadswitch Combat

  • Field of Glory II: Medieval

  • Panzer War : Definitive Edition

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Heliborne Collection: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026