Games like Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
If Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Age of Mythology: Extended Edition, Age of Empires® III (2007) and Age of Empires II (Retired) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its age progression feels unique, attrition makes battles unpredictable and borders shift dynamically. 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 →Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is a strategy and simulation game developed by SkyBox Labs and Big Huge Games, released in 2014 at a price of $19.99 USD. Players build and manage civilizations across multiple historical ages, utilizing mechanics including age-progression, attrition systems, dynamic border expansion, and campaigns spanning different eras. The game supports online cooperative multiplayer with tag-teaming options and includes population-modding capabilities. Reviewers highlight its grand scale and the unpredictable nature of battles created by the attrition system, while players describe the unique feel of the age-progression and the dynamic shifting of borders across historical periods as particularly engaging. The title holds a 95% positive rating from over 7,700 Steam reviews and is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
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Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
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Shares a grand mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Top pick for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Age of Mythology is back! Choose your god and take to the battlefield in this classic, upgraded with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features.
Age of Empires® III (2007)
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Second-strongest match for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Microsoft Studios brings you three epic Age of Empires III games in one monumental collection for the first time.
Age of Empires II (Retired)
WHY THIS
Shares age progression and an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Third-strongest match for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
Stronghold: Warlords
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Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Ranked #4 for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
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!
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Ranked #5 for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Empires Apart
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Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Ranked #6 for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
An exciting free-to-play Real Time Strategy game set in medieval times. Uniquely designed factions, customization options, singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay. Gather resources, raise an army and lead your civilization to victory in a classic RTS, brought to the modern age.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Ranked #7 for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
All of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War in one glorious package. Play the genre-defining classic real time strategy game in all its blood-soaked glory, including four complete campaigns and nine full-fledged factions.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Ranked #8 for Rise of Nations: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Empire Earth: Gold Edition
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Reviewers of Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended 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.
Rise of a Legend
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Shares an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Rise of a Legend is a third-person action RPG that immerses you in the ruthless era of gladiatorial combat. Engage in rich single-player progression or take on challengers in online multiplayer matches. Manage your Ludus, level up your fighters, and boost your house's prestige with every victory.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
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Reviewers of Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Tiny Civilization
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Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
Millennia
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Shares an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Old World
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
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Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.
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Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~63% under Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~50% under Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~69% under Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
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
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Priced ~60% under Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
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
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Priced ~75% under Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
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.
Noita
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Priced ~60% under Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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Age of Empires II (Retired)
WHY THIS
Shares age progression and an epic mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Another title from SkyBox Labs, the studio behind Rise of Nations: Extended Edition. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a grand mood with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Another title from SkyBox Labs, the studio behind Rise of Nations: Extended Edition. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Age of Mythology is back! Choose your god and take to the battlefield in this classic, upgraded with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features.
TASTEE: Lethal Tactics
WHY THIS
Another title from SkyBox Labs, the studio behind Rise of Nations: Extended Edition. Shares Strategy with Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Strategy has a new name and it’s damn TASTEE. Recruit a team of volatile mercs and execute dramatic gunfights on a mission to take down the Cartel in this simultaneous turn-based tactics caper. Precision planning meets epic action. Regular community tournaments with prizes!
Frequently asked about Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
- Does Rise of Nations: Extended Edition work on Steam Deck?
- Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Rise of Nations: Extended Edition cost?
- Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rise of Nations: Extended Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rise of Nations: Extended Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rise of Nations: Extended Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise of Nations: Extended Edition are Age of Mythology: Extended Edition, Age of Empires® III (2007), Age of Empires II (Retired).
- Who developed Rise of Nations: Extended Edition?
- Rise of Nations: Extended Edition was developed by SkyBox Labs, Big Huge Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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