Games like The Ancients
If The Ancients is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim, Sid Meier's Civilization® V and Old World — 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 The Ancients: The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. Survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance your technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve your civilization.
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Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Ancients.
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ancients.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Old World
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Third-strongest match for The Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Ancients.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
ENDLESS™ Legend 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Ancients.
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
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Ranked #5 for The Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ancients.
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Galactic Civilizations III
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ancients.
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
Oriental Empires
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ancients.
Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
Panzer Corps 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ancients.
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ancients at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ancients.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Ancients.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ancients.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ancients.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under The Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with The Ancients.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ancients.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Ancients.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ancients.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ancients.
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.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ancients.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ancients.
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. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ancients.
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!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ancients.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about The Ancients
- Does The Ancients work on Steam Deck?
- The Ancients is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Ancients cost?
- The Ancients is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Ancients?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ancients are Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim, Sid Meier's Civilization® V, Old World.
- Who developed The Ancients?
- The Ancients was developed by GorillaSoftWorks and published by Camlann Games.
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 The Ancients.
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