Games like Clockwork Empires
If Clockwork Empires is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lethis - Path of Progress, Spacebase DF-9 and Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its colony micromanagement feels rewarding, atmospheric and dark. 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 Clockwork Empires: Take on the role of a Colonial Bureaucrat sent forth by the Clockwork Empire to build a Frontier Colony. Design houses & workshops to feed the Ravenous Maw of Industry, manage a uniquely unruly population, avoid cannibalism & monsters, and make Important Decisions for the glory of the Empire!
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Lethis - Path of Progress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clockwork Empires.
Top pick for Clockwork Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
Spacebase DF-9
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Clockwork Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clockwork Empires.
Third-strongest match for Clockwork Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Gnomoria
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Clockwork Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Folk Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clockwork Empires.
Ranked #5 for Clockwork Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Folk Tale is a single-player fantasy village builder RPG game. Grow your village from nothing, recruit heroes, explore dungeons, battle bosses, and take home a big bag of sweet loot.
Stonehearth
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Clockwork Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
First Feudal
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Clockwork Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clockwork Empires.
Ranked #8 for Clockwork Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Clockwork Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Clockwork Empires.
Reviewers of Clockwork Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
Banished
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Clockwork Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Tropico 5
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Clockwork Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clockwork Empires.
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clockwork Empires.
Reviewers of Clockwork Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
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.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Clockwork Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Clockwork Empires.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Clockwork Empires.
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Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Clockwork Empires.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
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 Clockwork Empires.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Clockwork Empires
- What games are most similar to Clockwork Empires?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Clockwork Empires are Lethis - Path of Progress, Spacebase DF-9, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation.
- Who developed Clockwork Empires?
- Clockwork Empires was developed by Gaslamp Games, Inc..
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