Games like Etherium
If Etherium is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rank: Warmaster, Advisors at the End of the Universe and Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® — 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 →About Etherium: Etherium is a real-time strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where three factions battle it out for a mysterious and rare resource known as ‘Etherium’.

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Steam players who put hours into Etherium 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.
Rank: Warmaster
WHY THIS
Top pick for Etherium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Advisors at the End of the Universe
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Etherium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
AEU is a fast paced realtime strategy and 4x hybrid. Players influence their empire to grow, fight, forge alliances or engage in trade. Players are given control over the empire's traits, research and a set of three types of abilities(Construction, Plagues and Agents) to accomplish their goals.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Etherium.
Third-strongest match for Etherium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Etherium.
Ranked #4 for Etherium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Etherium.
Ranked #5 for Etherium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Etherium.
Ranked #6 for Etherium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.
Earth 2150 Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Etherium.
Ranked #7 for Etherium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it?
Spacebase Startopia
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Etherium.
Ranked #8 for Etherium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Etherium at current Steam store prices.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Etherium on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Etherium on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Etherium on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Etherium on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Nubby's Number Factory
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Etherium on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Etherium on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Etherium on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
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.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Tindalos Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Tindalos Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Aliens: Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Etherium.
Another title from Tindalos Interactive, the studio behind Etherium. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Etherium.
Another title from Tindalos Interactive, the studio behind Etherium. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Etherium.
Another title from Tindalos Interactive, the studio behind Etherium. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.
EverSiege: Untold Ages
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Etherium.
Another title from Tindalos Interactive, the studio behind Etherium. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
Retreating ends here. Defend Bastion against evil hordes, reclaim lost powers, rebuild ancient ruins, and adapt your tactics to reverse the siege. Shape your playstyle in this hero-strategy rogue-lite solo or co-op up to 3 players.
Stellar Impact
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Etherium.
Another title from Tindalos Interactive, the studio behind Etherium. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
In Stellar Impact you command a space battleship in intense tactical combat with teammates!
Bunker Constructor
WHY THIS
Another title from Tindalos Interactive, the studio behind Etherium. Shares Strategy with Etherium.
In Bunker Constructor you build strong bunkers that protect against enemy attacks. You must build resilient bunkers through 45 levels and in 5 environments including desert, forest, beach, mountains and city ruins, because the next attack wave is already underway!
Frequently asked about Etherium
- Does Etherium run on Steam Deck?
- Etherium 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 Etherium cost?
- Etherium is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Etherium have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Etherium supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Etherium?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Etherium are Rank: Warmaster, Advisors at the End of the Universe, Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®.
- Who developed Etherium?
- Etherium was developed by Tindalos Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment.
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