Games like Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
If Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Millennia and Imperialist — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →From Oxide Games comes this ambitious turn-based 4X strategy title that tasks players with building a civilization from any point in human history. The game emphasizes detailed production chains and resource specialization, where managing supply lines and optimizing production-trains forms a core strategic layer. Military conflicts unfold through formation-based combat, while diplomatic-tribute mechanics offer alternative routes to power beyond warfare. Players highlight how the city-quality system adds meaningful depth to urban development, and describe the overall experience as atmospheric, challenging, and contemplative. The asynchronous multiplayer option provides rare flexibility for coordinating with others, and reviewers note that crafting materials for wonders feels immersive. Available at $49.99 on Steam Deck in a playable state, the title carries an "extremely hard" difficulty rating and promises a massive time investment. Based on 1,234 Steam reviews, the game holds a 71% positive reception.
About Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition : Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Top pick for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
Millennia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Second-strongest match for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Imperialist
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Third-strongest match for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Can you exploit the New World to control the Old? Lead your nation over five centuries of history in this 4X Strategy game. Build production chains, manage logistics, grow your Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals diplomatically or on the battlefield, to become history's first Superpower.
Europa Universalis IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Ranked #4 for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Europa Universalis V
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Ranked #5 for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.
ENDLESS™ Legend 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Ranked #6 for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
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.
Star Trek: Infinite
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Ranked #7 for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
HUMANKIND™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Ranked #8 for Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
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Old World
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Reviewers of Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
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?
Solium Infernum
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Shares an immersive mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Reviewers of Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Take the Infernal Throne in this hellish turn-based grand strategy game. The Prince of Darkness has vanished, leaving Archfiends to conspire: muster your legions while intoning dark sorceries, devilish schemes, and machiavellian plots. Who will be the new ruler of Hell and ascend the Throne?
Victoria 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Reviewers of Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
Tiny Civilization
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Shares a contemplative mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Reviewers of Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Dominion
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Shares a contemplative mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Reviewers of Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Expand a small kingdom to a mighty Dominion! Play the Spiel des Jahres winning boardgame beloved by millions around the world. Discover the game that defined a genre, Dominion was first to popularize deck-building and remains a staple of tabletop. This is the officially licensed implementation.
Factorio
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Shares a contemplative mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Reviewers of Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Millennia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Reviewers of Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~72% under Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
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Priced ~60% under Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Dispatch
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Priced ~52% under Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Balatro
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Priced ~76% under Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~70% under Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~85% under Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~88% under Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
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!
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
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.
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.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition .
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
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Frequently asked about Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
- Does Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition run on Steam Deck?
- Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition 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 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition cost?
- Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition is listed on Steam at 49.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition ?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition are Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Millennia, Imperialist.
- Who developed Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition ?
- Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition was developed by Oxide Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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