Games like Esports History
If Esports History is your kind of game, the closest matches are Punch Club 2: Fast Forward, Teamfight Manager and Road to Omaha: College Baseball Dynasty — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and nostalgic. 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 Esports History: Esports History is an RPG sim where you start as a regular guy, and work your way up to the very top of esports. Defeat bosses in tournaments, make a name for yourself within the esports community, and become a real pro!
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Steam players who put hours into Esports History 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.
Punch Club 2: Fast Forward
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Esports History.
Top pick for Esports History fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Esports History.
Train, fight, and rise to the top in this knockout sequel to the smashing fighter management simulator! Mentor your fighter and guide him to become the ultimate champion: choose from different combat styles, control his routine, and watch him kick some butt like a proud sensei!
Teamfight Manager
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Esports History.
Second-strongest match for Esports History fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Esports History.
Teamfight Manager is a simulation game where you are the coach of an e-sports team. You must manage players to set them up for matches. Make the best of pick & ban by evaluating the characteristics of the champions/players! A smart strategy can make up for a lack of individual player skills.
Road to Omaha: College Baseball Dynasty
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Esports History fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Esports History.
A deep college baseball dynasty management sim where you build a program across endless seasons: recruit, set lineups and rotations, hire staff, manage schedules, develop players, and play or sim every game pitch by pitch. Can you become the greatest coach of all time?
Punch to Glory
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Esports History fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Esports History.
Start your journey as a boxer from the ground up, fighting your way to glory. Develop your character, collect fight cards, and face the challenges life throws your way. Train hard, manage stress, and give everything you've got to turn your championship dreams into reality.
Tennis Manager 25
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Esports History.
Ranked #5 for Esports History fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Esports History.
Dive into the most advanced tennis management experience to date. Manage your academy, develop your staff and facilities, and recruit the best players from junior to pro, across both men's and women's circuits. Forge the champions of tomorrow and shape the future of tennis!
Hakan's War Manager
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Esports History fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Esports History.
Manage your commanders like a sports team. Scout & train your commanders, set tactics, and outsmart rivals to become champion of the War League. It's like Football Manager, but with armies!
Tennis Manager 2024
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Esports History.
Ranked #7 for Esports History fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Esports History.
The courts have missed you, it’s time to sign your comeback and prove yourself as the greatest tennis manager. Tennis Manager 2024 is back and better than ever! Get ready to strategize, train your new wonderkids, and conquer the courts in the most immersive tennis management experience yet!
Drink Stand Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Esports History fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Esports History.
Drink Stand Tycoon is a casual business management tycoon game. Whether you're looking to relax and manage stats or destroy the competition, Drink Stand Tycoon offers an approachable yet detailed experience both new and old tycoon fans will enjoy!
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Punch Club
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Esports History.
Reviewers of Esports History cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Esports History.
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.
Counter-Strike
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Esports History cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Esports History cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Esports History.
Reviewers of Esports History cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Esports History.
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.
Mythologous
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Esports History cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Esports History.
A persistent online text RPG with dungeon crawling, extraction, tactical combat, deep magic systems, and emergent radiant NPCs. Explore, prepare gear, clear dungeons, incant spells and rituals, interact and command companions naturally, craft and trade. Your avatar lives, with or without you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Esports History at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esports History on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Esports History.
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 ~50% under Esports History on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Esports History.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esports History on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Esports History.
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 ~50% under Esports History on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Esports History.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Esports History on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Esports History.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esports History on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Esports History.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Esports History on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Esports History.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esports History on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Esports History.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Esports History.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Esports History.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Esports History.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Esports History.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Esports History.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Esports History
- Does Esports History run on Steam Deck?
- Esports History 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 Esports History cost?
- Esports History is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Esports History?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Esports History are Punch Club 2: Fast Forward, Teamfight Manager, Road to Omaha: College Baseball Dynasty.
- Who developed Esports History?
- Esports History was developed by Quantum Gear Studios.
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 Esports History.
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