Games like Cataclysm Era
If Cataclysm Era is your kind of game, the closest matches are SandTable War: Three Kingdoms, NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传 and Breach & Clear: Deadline Rebirth (2016) — 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 Cataclysm Era: Build your forces, conquer cities, and unite the wasteland. Ashes&Gunfire merges real-time tactics, fast-paced top-down battles, and deep management systems to let you forge a new order from the world’s remains.

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Steam players who put hours into Cataclysm Era 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.
SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cataclysm Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cataclysm Era.
"SandTable War: Three Kingdoms" is a strategic simulation game set during the Three Kingdoms period. Here you can play as various factions from Three Kingdoms history to conquer cities and lands, unify the realm. With abundant historical officers and scenarios, come restore the Han Dynasty!
NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cataclysm Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cataclysm Era.
This is a sandbox game that is deeply rooted in the rich historical information of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The story of the game unfolds slowly in the eighth century BC on the vast and mysterious land of China.
Breach & Clear: Deadline Rebirth (2016)
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cataclysm Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cataclysm Era.
A deadly new breed of human monster is on the rise, and it’s up to players to stop the infestation before it spreads. Breach & Clear: DEADline Rebirth is a new and greatly improved version of B&C: Deadline, the follow-up to Breach & Clear, the critically acclaimed hybrid tactical strategy game.
Sudden Strike 5
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cataclysm Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cataclysm Era.
Sudden Strike 5 delivers real-time tactics in epic WWII battles. A host of tactical options and more than 300 playable units open-up multiple approaches to reach your objectives in a 25 mission campaign on historical battlefields in Europe and North Africa.
Toy Shire
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Ranked #5 for Cataclysm Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cataclysm Era.
Are you prepared for a thrilling toy army tower defense adventure? Welcome to the Toy Shire! Battle diverse foes in various locations, defend your family, and repel foes from your area. Save the world by strengthening your defense with toy towers!
King's Orders
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Ranked #6 for Cataclysm Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cataclysm Era.
King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.
ReEarth
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cataclysm Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cataclysm Era.
ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!
Broken Arrow
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cataclysm Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cataclysm Era.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Indie with Cataclysm Era.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cataclysm Era.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cataclysm Era.
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.).
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cataclysm Era.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cataclysm Era.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cataclysm Era.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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 Action and Strategy with Cataclysm Era.
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!
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Frequently asked about Cataclysm Era
- What games are most similar to Cataclysm Era?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cataclysm Era are SandTable War: Three Kingdoms, NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传, Breach & Clear: Deadline Rebirth (2016).
- Who developed Cataclysm Era?
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