Games like The Emperor and State
If The Emperor and State is your kind of game, the closest matches are Three Kingdoms : Alias, Clockwork Dawn and Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 — 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 The Emperor and State: The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.
Players who liked The Emperor and State also play
Steam players who put hours into The Emperor and State 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.
Three Kingdoms : Alias
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Top pick for The Emperor and State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
A world where officers hide their names and abilities. Can you spot Zhuge Liang? A hardcore turn-based strategy simulation for true Three Kingdoms devotees.
Clockwork Dawn
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Second-strongest match for The Emperor and State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
A new dawn approaches with the advent of intricate mechanical designs that will transform the world into an era of steam and steel. Take control of a country in this alternate history steampunk timeline and either survive and prosper or be forgotten in the dust of ages past.
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Emperor and State.
Third-strongest match for The Emperor and State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
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!
Cascade: Hindcast
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Ranked #4 for The Emperor and State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Emperor and State.
Cascade: Hindcast is an alternate-history grand strategy game where monthly political and military decisions reshape a living war map. Use hindsight, spend scarce political capital, and watch borders, armies, and consequences move in real time.
O.A.C - World Begins
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Ranked #5 for The Emperor and State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Emperor and State.
Are you a leader? Once you convince your nation you are their leader, it will be time to show the world your own political, people management and military strategy skills. O.A.C aims to be a breath of fresh air in the grand strategy genre that will inspire its own kind of videogames!
Terra Invicta
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Shares faction politics and a contemplative mood with The Emperor and State.
Ranked #6 for The Emperor and State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Emperor and State.
Ranked #7 for The Emperor and State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Emperor and State.
The confrontation between the East and the West is coming to an end, but not between East and West Germany. The old party leaders are still sitting in their offices, not changing anything and waiting for exclamations from Moscow. But their end is close – Gorbachev and Kohl have already decided...
Europa Universalis IV
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Shares a challenging mood with The Emperor and State.
Ranked #8 for The Emperor and State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Emperor and State at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~49% under The Emperor and State on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
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
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Priced ~49% under The Emperor and State on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Emperor and State.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~49% under The Emperor and State on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Emperor and State.
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
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Priced ~49% under The Emperor and State on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Emperor and State.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Emperor and State on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Emperor and State.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~49% under The Emperor and State on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Emperor and State.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~69% under The Emperor and State on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~49% under The Emperor and State on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Emperor and State.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Emperor and State.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Emperor and State.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Emperor and State.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Emperor and State.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about The Emperor and State
- Does The Emperor and State run on Steam Deck?
- The Emperor and State 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 The Emperor and State cost?
- The Emperor and State is listed on Steam at 9.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Emperor and State?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Emperor and State are Three Kingdoms : Alias, Clockwork Dawn, Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升.
- Who developed The Emperor and State?
- The Emperor and State was developed by 涂途 and published by Hawthorn Games.
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