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Games like Empire Earth: Gold Edition

If Empire Earth: Gold Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empire Earth III, Empire Earth II: Gold Edition and Last Stand: Defense — 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.

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About Empire Earth: Gold Edition: With dozens of hours of gameplay set across a rich tapestry of time, Empire Earth: Gold Edition offers real-time strategy for the ages. Choose any point in time - from the discovery of fire to the laser battles of the future - and command your civilization with one goal: make Earth your Empire.

2026Strategy5.99 USDWindowsby Stainless Steel Studios, Mad Doc Software, Xtended Realiities
Empire Earth: Gold Edition — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Empire Earth: Gold Edition 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.

  1. Empire Earth III

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Empire Earth: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    In Empire Earth III it’s you who creates history. Build your empire from three distinct factions or create a custom faction of your choosing. Lead your people to supremacy in technology, politics and economy, from ancient times to the future. Your quest for world domination is finally at hand.

    2026Strategy9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Empire Earth II: Gold Edition

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Empire Earth: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Empire Earth II: Gold Edition refines the series’ time-spanning gameplay with a host of new features. With advanced AI, picture-in-picture control, dynamic weather and many other additions, this RTS doesn’t just stand the test of time – it annihilates it.

    2026Strategy9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Last Stand: Defense

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Empire Earth: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    "Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game. Players need to defend against waves of enemies by building bases, matching talents, and performing delicate operations during battles. Remember, every choice you make will affect the final outcome of the battle!

    2025ActionStrategy5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. IDUN - Frontline Survival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Empire Earth: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Creeper World 4

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Empire Earth: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Geo-Political Simulator 5

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Empire Earth: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    The new 5th edition of the hyperrealistic global simulator game where you play as the Head of State or as the opposition or the president of a large multinational company, with a completely redesigned interface, a new ultra-detailed map, complete control of companies and new scenarios for 2024.

    2024StrategySimulation59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. After Long Night

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Empire Earth: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Company of Heroes 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Empire Earth: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?

    2023ActionStrategy59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Empire Earth: Gold Edition at current Steam store prices.

  1. Nodebuster

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Empire Earth: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Empire Earth: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Tower Wizard

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Empire Earth: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Empire Earth: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Hexcells

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Empire Earth: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

    2014StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Empire Earth: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Hexcells Plus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Empire Earth: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

    2014StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Lords of the Realm II

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Empire Earth: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    The great Lords of England have their eyes on the the English throne! Muster an army and overrun your enemies' castles in this classic, nail-biting strategy game that blends turn-based and real-time gameplay.

    2015StrategyRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.

    2020StrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. KARDS - The WW2 Card Game

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    KARDS, The World War II Card Game, combines traditional CCG gameplay with innovative mechanics inspired by classic strategy games and real battlefield tactics. Take command and challenge other players in grand-scale warfare on the ground, air, or seas.

    2020StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Istrolid

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.

    2016StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. SOVL: Fantasy Warfare

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    SOVL is a ruleset for playing fantasy wargames. It can be played with miniatures on a table or digitally on Steam.

    2023StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Star Realms

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Star Realms is a hugely popular space combat deckbuilding game. Download and play today (note: base set is required to play online) to find out why Star Realms is the winner of SXSW 2014 Board Game of the Year, 7 Golden Geek Awards from BoardGameGeek, and 2 Dice Tower awards!

    2016StrategyFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Infinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.

    2021StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Dwarfs - F2P

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    Dwarfs!? is an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes, in the tradition of great games such as “Lemmings” and “Dwarf Fortress”.

    2012StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Zombie Defense

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

    A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.

    2016ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Empire Earth: Gold Edition

How much does Empire Earth: Gold Edition cost?
Empire Earth: Gold Edition is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Empire Earth: Gold Edition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empire Earth: Gold Edition are Empire Earth III, Empire Earth II: Gold Edition, Last Stand: Defense.
Who developed Empire Earth: Gold Edition?
Empire Earth: Gold Edition was developed by Stainless Steel Studios, Mad Doc Software, Xtended Realiities and published by Rebellion.

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 Empire Earth: Gold Edition.

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