Games like The First Explorers®
If The First Explorers® is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anno 117: Pax Romana, Anno 1800 and Stronghold: Warlords — 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 The First Explorers®: The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
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Steam players who put hours into The First Explorers® 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.
Anno 117: Pax Romana
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Top pick for The First Explorers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The First Explorers®.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Anno 1800
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Second-strongest match for The First Explorers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The First Explorers®.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Stronghold: Warlords
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Third-strongest match for The First Explorers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The First Explorers®.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Northgard: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #4 for The First Explorers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The First Explorers®.
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!
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #5 for The First Explorers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The First Explorers®.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Pioneers of Pagonia
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Ranked #6 for The First Explorers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The First Explorers®.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Offworld Trading Company
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Ranked #7 for The First Explorers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The First Explorers®.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Railway Empire 2
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Ranked #8 for The First Explorers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The First Explorers®.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The First Explorers®.
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
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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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The First Explorers®.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The First Explorers®.
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. Shares Simulation with The First Explorers®.
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!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The First Explorers®.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The First Explorers®.
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.
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Frequently asked about The First Explorers®
- Does The First Explorers® have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The First Explorers® supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The First Explorers®?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The First Explorers® are Anno 117: Pax Romana, Anno 1800, Stronghold: Warlords.
- Who developed The First Explorers®?
- The First Explorers® was developed by Buchwald Interactive.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The First Explorers®.
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