Games like Ancient Aliens: The Game
If Ancient Aliens: The Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) and Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its background friendly gameplay, play in short bursts and chill. 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 Ancient Aliens: The Game: What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!

Players who liked Ancient Aliens: The Game also play
Steam players who put hours into Ancient Aliens: The Game 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.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Top pick for Ancient Aliens: The Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Second-strongest match for Ancient Aliens: The Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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.
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
WHY THIS
Shares building placement, resource management and a chill mood with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Third-strongest match for Ancient Aliens: The Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ancient Aliens: The Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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!
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ancient Aliens: The Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Ranked #6 for Ancient Aliens: The Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Ranked #7 for Ancient Aliens: The Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Ranked #8 for Ancient Aliens: The Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ancient Aliens: The Game at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ancient Aliens: The Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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 ~67% under Ancient Aliens: The Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ancient Aliens: The Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Ancient Aliens: The Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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 ~47% under Ancient Aliens: The Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ancient Aliens: The Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ancient Aliens: The Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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 ~67% under Ancient Aliens: The Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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.
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 Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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 Simulation and Casual with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
‘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 Simulation with Ancient Aliens: The Game.
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 Ancient Aliens: The Game
- How much does Ancient Aliens: The Game cost?
- Ancient Aliens: The Game is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ancient Aliens: The Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ancient Aliens: The Game are Surviving Mars, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012), Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt.
- Who developed Ancient Aliens: The Game?
- Ancient Aliens: The Game was developed by Fifth Column Games and published by Legacy Games.
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