Games like Dark Age Empires
If Dark Age Empires is your kind of game, the closest matches are ARK: Survival Ascended, Ashborn Empires and Forty-Niner — 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 Dark Age Empires: Dark Age Empires is an open world survival game that can be played in single player mode or as an online multiplayer game on a dedicated server.Do you have what it takes to not only survive in this dark age, but to rise up, fight back and create your own Dark Age Empire?

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Steam players who put hours into Dark Age Empires 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.
ARK: Survival Ascended
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Top pick for Dark Age Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Ashborn Empires
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Second-strongest match for Dark Age Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
Command vast armies and manage a growing empire from a classic top-down RTS perspective, or take up arms as a Hero and lead the charge in third-person combat. Explore ancient ruins, recover lost technology, and shape the fate of a fallen world together.
Forty-Niner
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Third-strongest match for Dark Age Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
Immerse yourself in a survival and exploration game set in a procedural Wild West world. Choose your role, and set out to prove your legend on the frontier by building, mining, and battling alone or with friends.
Starting Life In Another World Naked
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Ranked #4 for Dark Age Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dark Age Empires.
You will venture into a world much like ours before you are "taken" to another world, a fantasy world. You are the hero of this new world, but sadly you start off with nothing. You must survive and build your way to defeating the Demon King; that's why you were summoned in the first place.
Han Xiongnu Wars
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Ranked #5 for Dark Age Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
Welcome to Han Xiongnu Wars. A stand-along game and synergy of historical Far East and multiple features in role-playing, real-time strategy and action gameplay. This game brings you to the eventful years of the early Han Dynasty, and faithfully presents the ancient eastern culture with many objects and scenes faithfully reconstructed...
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
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Ranked #6 for Dark Age Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is co-op Tower Defense combined with epic Action RPG combat. You’re able to join forces with up to four players to take on a never-ending army of orcs, demons, and dragons! Are your defenses strong enough to save the world of Etheria?
Craftopia
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Ranked #7 for Dark Age Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
The Riftbreaker
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Ranked #8 for Dark Age Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Age Empires.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Age Empires.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Age Empires.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Dark Age Empires.
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Frequently asked about Dark Age Empires
- Does Dark Age Empires have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dark Age Empires supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Dark Age Empires?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Age Empires are ARK: Survival Ascended, Ashborn Empires, Forty-Niner.
- Who developed Dark Age Empires?
- Dark Age Empires was developed by Phoenix Studio.
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 Dark Age Empires.
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