Games like Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
If Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition and Age of Mythology: Retold — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its controller support broadens accessibility, challenging and contemplative. 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 →Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition is a strategy game released in 2021 by World's Edge, Relic Entertainment, and Forgotten Empires, published by Xbox Game Studios. The game features an age-advancement system, campaign narrative sequences, civilization-specific bonuses, a multiplayer ranked system, and unit-cost management, all set within a historical framework. Players describe the experience as challenging, contemplative, epic, and immersive. The title costs $39.99 USD, is playable on Steam Deck, and holds an 86% positive rating from over 27,000 Steam reviews. Reviewers highlight that civilizations feel distinct and require different strategies, documentary-style campaign cutscenes enrich historical context, controller support broadens accessibility, and ranked multiplayer scales difficulty progressively. Players also note that visuals and unit animations are meticulously detailed.
About Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition: Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
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Top pick for Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Second-strongest match for Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.
Age of Mythology: Retold
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Third-strongest match for Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Play as mythological Gods and smite your enemies in this award-winning, mythological Real-Time Strategy classic given new life. Wage war across timeless campaigns, fierce skirmishes, and god-powered multiplayer modes.
Cossacks 3
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Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Ranked #4 for Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!
Company of Heroes 3
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Shares a challenging mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Ranked #5 for Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?
Stronghold Kingdoms
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Shares a challenging mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Ranked #6 for Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!
Diplomacy is Not an Option
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Shares a challenging mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Ranked #7 for Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Ranked #8 for Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
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Crusader Kings III
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Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
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Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
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Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Anno 1800
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Shares an immersive mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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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.
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
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Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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Age of Mythology is back! Choose your god and take to the battlefield in this classic, upgraded with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features.
Stellaris
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Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Europa Universalis IV
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Shares an immersive mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Manor Lords
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Shares an immersive mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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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.
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Priced ~65% under Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Balatro
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Priced ~70% under Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
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Priced ~50% under Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~63% under Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Slay the Spire
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Priced ~84% under Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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 ~80% under Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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...
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The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from World's Edge, the studio behind Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Another title from World's Edge, the studio behind Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.
Age of Mythology: Retold
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Another title from World's Edge, the studio behind Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Play as mythological Gods and smite your enemies in this award-winning, mythological Real-Time Strategy classic given new life. Wage war across timeless campaigns, fierce skirmishes, and god-powered multiplayer modes.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Another title from World's Edge, the studio behind Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition. Shares Strategy with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
Frequently asked about Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
- Does Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition run on Steam Deck?
- Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition 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 Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition cost?
- Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition are Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition, Age of Mythology: Retold.
- Who developed Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition?
- Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition was developed by World's Edge, Relic Entertainment, Forgotten Empires and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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