Games like Empires and Tribes
If Empires and Tribes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stronghold: Warlords, Legends of Ellaria and Age of Empires® III (2007) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and epic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Empires and Tribes: Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
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Steam players who put hours into Empires and Tribes also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empires and Tribes.
Top pick for Empires and Tribes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Legends of Ellaria
WHY THIS
Shares first person combat and an immersive mood with Empires and Tribes.
Second-strongest match for Empires and Tribes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.
Age of Empires® III (2007)
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Empires and Tribes.
Third-strongest match for Empires and Tribes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Microsoft Studios brings you three epic Age of Empires III games in one monumental collection for the first time.
The Last Haven
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Empires and Tribes.
Ranked #4 for Empires and Tribes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
BANNERMEN
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Empires and Tribes.
Ranked #5 for Empires and Tribes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
A singleplayer fast-paced classic RTS game in which you take on the role of a fallen lord on his journey back to become one of the mightiest in the medieval realm of Valtoria.
Age of Empires II (Retired)
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Empires and Tribes.
Ranked #6 for Empires and Tribes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
Pioneers of Pagonia
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Empires and Tribes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Empires and Tribes.
Ranked #8 for Empires and Tribes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Mount & Blade
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empires and Tribes.
Reviewers of Empires and Tribes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
Medieval Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empires and Tribes.
Reviewers of Empires and Tribes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
The Guild 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empires and Tribes.
Reviewers of Empires and Tribes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
The Guild Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Empires and Tribes.
Reviewers of Empires and Tribes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
It’s the year 1400- the late Middle Ages. Europe sees the dawn of the golden age of the new departures and the free spirit. Under the rule of the bourgeoisie and businessmen, more and more towns are emerging from the clutches of the aristocracy and are achieving independence, power and wealth.
The Guild II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empires and Tribes.
Reviewers of Empires and Tribes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empires and Tribes.
Reviewers of Empires and Tribes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Empires and Tribes at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Empires and Tribes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Empires and Tribes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Empires and Tribes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Empires and Tribes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Empires and Tribes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Empires and Tribes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Empires and Tribes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Empires and Tribes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
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Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
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Frequently asked about Empires and Tribes
- How much does Empires and Tribes cost?
- Empires and Tribes is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Empires and Tribes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empires and Tribes are Stronghold: Warlords, Legends of Ellaria, Age of Empires® III (2007).
- Who developed Empires and Tribes?
- Empires and Tribes was developed by White Vertex Studios.
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