Games like Chinese Empire
If Chinese Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anno 117: Pax Romana, Anno 1800 and Corsair Cove — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Chinese Empire: Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. Create your own new empire that will go down in history!
Players who liked Chinese Empire also play
Steam players who put hours into Chinese Empire 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.
Anno 117: Pax Romana
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Top pick for Chinese Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Anno 1800
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Second-strongest match for Chinese Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Corsair Cove
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Third-strongest match for Chinese Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Land of the Vikings
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Ranked #4 for Chinese Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chinese Empire.
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Farthest Frontier
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Ranked #5 for Chinese Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Nebuchadnezzar
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Ranked #6 for Chinese Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
Cities: Skylines
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Ranked #7 for Chinese Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Grand Ages: Medieval
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Ranked #8 for Chinese Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chinese Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~71% under Chinese Empire on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chinese Empire.
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 ~41% under Chinese Empire on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chinese Empire.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under Chinese Empire on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chinese Empire.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~56% under Chinese Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chinese Empire.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~41% under Chinese Empire on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chinese Empire.
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
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Priced ~63% under Chinese Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chinese Empire.
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 ~53% under Chinese Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Chinese Empire.
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...
How to Fish
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Priced ~71% under Chinese Empire on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chinese Empire.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chinese Empire.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chinese Empire.
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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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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chinese Empire.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chinese Empire.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Chinese Empire.
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!
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Frequently asked about Chinese Empire
- Does Chinese Empire work on Steam Deck?
- Chinese Empire is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Chinese Empire cost?
- Chinese Empire is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chinese Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chinese Empire are Anno 117: Pax Romana, Anno 1800, Corsair Cove.
- Who developed Chinese Empire?
- Chinese Empire was developed by Yeyuna.
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 Chinese Empire.
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