Games like Mandate Order
If Mandate Order is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empires of Black Powder, Bread & Bravery and CastleOn — 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 Mandate Order: Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Players who liked Mandate Order also play
Steam players who put hours into Mandate Order 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.
Empires of Black Powder
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Top pick for Mandate Order fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mandate Order.
It’s the Napoleonic era, and you must build the battlefield you fight on. Send Pioneers to gather supplies, expand the local town, and prepare your defenses. Command companies in formation, keep your veterans alive, and carry their experience and upgrades into the next battle.
Bread & Bravery
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Second-strongest match for Mandate Order fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mandate Order.
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
CastleOn
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Third-strongest match for Mandate Order fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mandate Order.
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Ground of Aces
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Ranked #4 for Mandate Order fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mandate Order.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Stronghold: Warlords
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Ranked #5 for Mandate Order fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mandate Order.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
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Ranked #6 for Mandate Order fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mandate Order.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Corsair Cove
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Ranked #7 for Mandate Order fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mandate Order.
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!
Terra Invicta
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Ranked #8 for Mandate Order fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mandate Order.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mandate Order at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~71% under Mandate Order on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mandate Order.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~41% under Mandate Order on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Mandate Order.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~41% under Mandate Order on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mandate Order.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under Mandate Order on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mandate Order.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~59% under Mandate Order on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Mandate Order.
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.
PEAK
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Priced ~53% under Mandate Order on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mandate Order.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mandate Order.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mandate Order.
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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mandate Order.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mandate Order.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mandate Order.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mandate Order.
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.
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Frequently asked about Mandate Order
- How much does Mandate Order cost?
- Mandate Order is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mandate Order?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mandate Order are Empires of Black Powder, Bread & Bravery, CastleOn.
- Who developed Mandate Order?
- Mandate Order was developed by Digital Sky.
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