Games like Lunar Ascendant
If Lunar Ascendant is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bering Tonnage, Socialism Simulator and Democracy 4 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and tense. 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 Lunar Ascendant: The political drama set in a future that's too close for comfort. Become the first mayor of ARTEMIS: A Pioneering Lunar City. Navigate the future of lunar colonization, choose between independence and cooperation, shape policies for or against AI influence, and tackle interplanetary conspiracies.
Players who liked Lunar Ascendant also play
Steam players who put hours into Lunar Ascendant 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.
Bering Tonnage
WHY THIS
Top pick for Lunar Ascendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
Build and automate a cargo fleet across over 250 real-world ports in this maritime tycoon. Route ships through strategic canals, navigate tropical cyclones and geopolitical sanctions, and grow a small shipping company into a global logistics empire.
Socialism Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Lunar Ascendant.
Second-strongest match for Lunar Ascendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country. The young socialist state proudly raises its flags, its eyes fixed on a distant, bright future.
Democracy 4
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lunar Ascendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lunar Ascendant.
Ranked #4 for Lunar Ascendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Politics The Game
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative and faction politics with Lunar Ascendant.
Ranked #5 for Lunar Ascendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
Become a parliamentarian, create a powerful party, and lead it to victory in this humorous adventure game. Manage your popularity and dignity, use unique powers, and navigate a storyline inspired by current events.
Suzerain
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a tense mood with Lunar Ascendant.
Ranked #7 for Lunar Ascendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Lunar Ascendant.
Ranked #8 for Lunar Ascendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lunar Ascendant at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lunar Ascendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lunar Ascendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Lunar Ascendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lunar Ascendant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lunar Ascendant.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Lunar Ascendant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Lunar Ascendant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lunar Ascendant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lunar Ascendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Democracy 4
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Politics The Game
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative and faction politics with Lunar Ascendant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lunar Ascendant.
Become a parliamentarian, create a powerful party, and lead it to victory in this humorous adventure game. Manage your popularity and dignity, use unique powers, and navigate a storyline inspired by current events.
Suzerain
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a tense mood with Lunar Ascendant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Lunar Ascendant.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Frequently asked about Lunar Ascendant
- Does Lunar Ascendant run on Steam Deck?
- Lunar Ascendant 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 Lunar Ascendant cost?
- Lunar Ascendant is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lunar Ascendant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lunar Ascendant are Bering Tonnage, Socialism Simulator, Democracy 4.
- Who developed Lunar Ascendant?
- Lunar Ascendant was developed by Darts Games.
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