Games like Arcane Wilds
If Arcane Wilds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Age of Mythology: Retold, Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition and 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its active developer engagement, homebase evolves continuously and atmospheric. 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 Arcane Wilds: Arcane Wilds is a western themed fantasy RTS with a unique twist on resource management. Gather, steal, and transport resources to use them in battle strategically. Embark on a new journey, survive missions, face mystical creatures in battle and loot treasures to build and upgrade your home island.
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Steam players who put hours into Arcane Wilds 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.
Age of Mythology: Retold
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Arcane Wilds.
Top pick for Arcane Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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 IV: Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Arcane Wilds.
Second-strongest match for Arcane Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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.
9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Arcane Wilds.
Third-strongest match for Arcane Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.
Cossacks 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Arcane Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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!
Crossfire: Legion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Arcane Wilds.
Ranked #5 for Arcane Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
Moduwar
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Arcane Wilds.
Ranked #6 for Arcane Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Arcane Wilds.
Moduwar is an adaptive organic RTS where you control an alien creature, Modu - and your body is your army. Grow new organs, split, merge and mutate them into unique units that adapt to your needs as you fight against human and alien threats in single and multiplayer modes.
Godsworn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Arcane Wilds.
Ranked #7 for Arcane Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Arcane Wilds.
Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades, where pagan gods and their tribes clash against crusaders and armies of heaven. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy!
Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Arcane Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
An infinitely replayable multiplayer and single-player tower defense. Defend against waves of enemies and destroy the enemy's king before they destroy yours. Legion TD 2 is a one-of-a-kind game of tactics, teamwork, and prediction. Party as 1-8 players.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Arcane Wilds at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Arcane Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Arcane Wilds.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Arcane Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Arcane Wilds.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Arcane Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Arcane Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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 ~56% under Arcane Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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 ~72% under Arcane Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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 ~44% under Arcane Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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 ~72% under Arcane Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Arcane Wilds.
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.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Frequently asked about Arcane Wilds
- Does Arcane Wilds run on Steam Deck?
- Arcane Wilds 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 Arcane Wilds cost?
- Arcane Wilds is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Arcane Wilds have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Arcane Wilds supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Arcane Wilds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Arcane Wilds are Age of Mythology: Retold, Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far.
- Who developed Arcane Wilds?
- Arcane Wilds was developed by Avancadia.
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