Games like Pharaoh™: A New Era
If Pharaoh™: A New Era is your kind of game, the closest matches are Theos: Cities Of Myth, Colonial Winds and Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its calm thoughtful pacing, nostalgic and relaxing. 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 →Pharaoh™: A New Era is a strategy city-builder released in 2023 by Triskell Interactive and published by Dotemu. Set in ancient Egypt, it challenges players with city planning, construction timing, resource management, and historical recreation. The game features a redesigned soundtrack using real historical instruments. Players describe it as nostalgic and relaxing with a calm, thoughtful pacing, and reviewers highlight how it feels faithful to the original while presenting a modernized aesthetic. This HD remake offers a massive amount of content for players who enjoy challenging simulation games. It runs at a playable level on Steam Deck and holds a 75% positive rating from 2,403 Steam reviews, priced at $22.99.
About Pharaoh™: A New Era: The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Players who liked Pharaoh™: A New Era also play
Steam players who put hours into Pharaoh™: A New Era 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.
Theos: Cities Of Myth
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pharaoh™: A New Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
A modern take on classic city-builders, Theos: Cities of Myth lets you develop a thriving metropolis dedicated to one of 7 Greek Deities. Raise an imposing sanctuary, meet your citizens’ needs, and found a city worthy of the Gods.
Colonial Winds
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pharaoh™: A New Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Grow your colony from a small outpost into a thriving nation in this city-building game. Step into the shoes of a colonial governor as you build production chains, establish trade, meet the needs of your citizens, and guide your settlement toward self-rule.
Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pharaoh™: A New Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!
Coins, Crown & Cabal
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Ranked #4 for Pharaoh™: A New Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Build a flourishing trade empire by amassing wealth, influence and power. Outsmart your rivals through political and economic moves and dominate commerce in your county.
Republic of Pirates
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Ranked #5 for Pharaoh™: A New Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Mad Tower Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Ranked #6 for Pharaoh™: A New Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Casino Resort Tower
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Ranked #7 for Pharaoh™: A New Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Synergy
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pharaoh™: A New Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Pharaoh™: A New Era
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The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pharaoh™: A New Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Pharaoh's Tomb
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pharaoh™: A New Era cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Pharaoh's Tomb is an arcade-adventure game set in a huge Egyptian pyramid. Explore 20 uniquely-dangerous levels riddled with ingenious puzzles and traps. You start with five lives and a few spears, which can he thrown at offending denizens that patrol the pyramid.
Pharaoh + Cleopatra
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Reviewers of Pharaoh™: A New Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom.
OSIRIS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pharaoh™: A New Era cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Dark history about OSIRIS corporation, which performs experiments in the field of teleportation of human souls to the Heaven on the artificial planet G6. Inspired by Deep Dark Dubstep music.
Zeus Begins
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pharaoh™: A New Era cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Help the young Zeus to come back to Olympus and defeat Cronus. Cronus ate all of his sons but Zeus escaped with the help of his mother,he trained so hard in combat to defeat all the enemies that Cronus send to him. Fight with mythologic creatures and titans across Grece in a beat´em up game!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pharaoh™: A New Era at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
People Playground
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Priced ~57% under Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Balatro
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Priced ~48% under Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
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 ~67% under Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
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
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Priced ~65% under Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
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 ~78% under Pharaoh™: A New Era on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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More from Triskell Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Triskell Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Lethis - Path of Progress
WHY THIS
Another title from Triskell Interactive, the studio behind Pharaoh™: A New Era. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
Lethis - Daring Discoverers
WHY THIS
Another title from Triskell Interactive, the studio behind Pharaoh™: A New Era.
Lethis - Daring Discoverers is an exploration and investigation game with a gameplay inspired by choose your own adventure books in an isometric 2D view where you can travel to unbelievable planets!
Theos: Cities Of Myth
WHY THIS
Another title from Triskell Interactive, the studio behind Pharaoh™: A New Era. Shares Strategy with Pharaoh™: A New Era.
A modern take on classic city-builders, Theos: Cities of Myth lets you develop a thriving metropolis dedicated to one of 7 Greek Deities. Raise an imposing sanctuary, meet your citizens’ needs, and found a city worthy of the Gods.
Frequently asked about Pharaoh™: A New Era
- Does Pharaoh™: A New Era run on Steam Deck?
- Pharaoh™: A New Era is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Pharaoh™: A New Era cost?
- Pharaoh™: A New Era is listed on Steam at 22.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pharaoh™: A New Era?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pharaoh™: A New Era are Theos: Cities Of Myth, Colonial Winds, Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire.
- Who developed Pharaoh™: A New Era?
- Pharaoh™: A New Era was developed by Triskell Interactive and published by Dotemu.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Pharaoh™: A New Era.
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