Games like King's Orders
If King's Orders is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Great War: Western Front™, Ultimate General: American Revolution and NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its build economy then steamroll, diplomatic insults spark wars and imperfect information forces adaptation. 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 King's Orders: King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.
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The Great War: Western Front™
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with King's Orders.
Top pick for King's Orders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with King's Orders.
The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.
Ultimate General: American Revolution
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with King's Orders.
Second-strongest match for King's Orders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with King's Orders.
American Revolution is a sandbox strategy game featuring the epic historical period during the rebellion of the American colonies against the British Empire.
NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with King's Orders.
Third-strongest match for King's Orders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
This is a sandbox game that is deeply rooted in the rich historical information of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The story of the game unfolds slowly in the eighth century BC on the vast and mysterious land of China.
Steel Division 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with King's Orders.
Ranked #4 for King's Orders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Orders.
Ranked #5 for King's Orders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
"SandTable War: Three Kingdoms" is a strategic simulation game set during the Three Kingdoms period. Here you can play as various factions from Three Kingdoms history to conquer cities and lands, unify the realm. With abundant historical officers and scenarios, come restore the Han Dynasty!
Ultimate General: Civil War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Orders.
Ranked #6 for King's Orders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical real time strategy war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history - the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
Geo-Political Simulator 5
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with King's Orders.
Ranked #7 for King's Orders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with King's Orders.
The new 5th edition of the hyperrealistic global simulator game where you play as the Head of State or as the opposition or the president of a large multinational company, with a completely redesigned interface, a new ultra-detailed map, complete control of companies and new scenarios for 2024.
Europa Universalis III Complete
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with King's Orders.
Ranked #8 for King's Orders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with King's Orders.
Europa Universalis III Complete includes the original Europa Universalis III as well as the expansions In Nomine and Napoleons Ambition Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy.
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Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with King's Orders.
Reviewers of King's Orders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with King's Orders.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Total War: WARHAMMER II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with King's Orders.
Reviewers of King's Orders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with King's Orders.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
Radio Commander VR
WHY THIS
Reviewers of King's Orders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
Radio Commander now in VR! Be there, right next to the battlefield, in a commander’s tent in the middle of a Vietnamese jungle. Step into the shoes of an experienced leader and lead your soldiers to victory… or at least give them a chance to survive the Vietnam hell.
Radio Commander: Pacific '41
WHY THIS
Reviewers of King's Orders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with King's Orders.
Command operations in the Pacific War by analyzing reports, issuing radio orders, and making strategic decisions. This new title in the Radio Commander series enhances realism, focusing on situational awareness built through radio communications.
StrategySteam ↗Europa Universalis V
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Orders.
Reviewers of King's Orders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with King's Orders.
Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.
Toe-tal War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of King's Orders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with King's Orders.
Toe-tal War is a platformer where you kill people with your foot smell. Run and jump to make your feet smelly, change your shoes and socks to control the smell — then get close to enemies and stink them to death.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below King's Orders at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under King's Orders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with King's Orders.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under King's Orders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with King's Orders.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under King's Orders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with King's Orders.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under King's Orders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King's Orders.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under King's Orders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
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 ~47% under King's Orders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
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 ~67% under King's Orders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under King's Orders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with King's Orders.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 King's Orders.
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 Indie and Simulation with King's Orders.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with King's Orders.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
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 Indie and Simulation with King's Orders.
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!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with King's Orders.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with King's Orders.
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.
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Frequently asked about King's Orders
- Does King's Orders run on Steam Deck?
- King's Orders 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 King's Orders cost?
- King's Orders is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to King's Orders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside King's Orders are The Great War: Western Front™, Ultimate General: American Revolution, NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传.
- Who developed King's Orders?
- King's Orders was developed by AFTERLIFE👻 and published by Games Operators.
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