Games like Empire Builder
If Empire Builder is your kind of game, the closest matches are 18Korea, Train Metropolis and PicoTrains — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, competitive and relaxing. 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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18Korea
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Empire Builder.
Top pick for Empire Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
18Korea is an online multiplayer game for 2 to 5 players motivated by the beloved board game series '18xx'. In the 19~20 century Korean Peninsula, Make the best profit by running railroad companies and trading stocks.
Train Metropolis
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Empire Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Empire Builder.
Train Themed Idle Clicker. Build and manage your railway company, helping the city expand and thrive.
PicoTrains
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Empire Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Empire Builder.
A retro-styled railway management strategy game!
Cargo Company
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Empire Builder.
Ranked #4 for Empire Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.
MONOPOLY® PLUS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Empire Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
EMBARK ON A JOURNEY TO OWN IT ALL! Build your empire on a colorful and 3D lively city animated by funny sidekicks! MONOPOLY® PLUS brings the classic franchise to a new level on PC with amazing animations, customizable house rules!
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Empire Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Empire Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Empire Builder.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Shares turn based strategy and an atmospheric mood with Empire Builder.
Ranked #8 for Empire Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Empire Builder at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Empire Builder on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Empire Builder on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Empire Builder on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Empire Builder on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Empire Builder on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
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 ~60% under Empire Builder on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
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 ~75% under Empire Builder on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Empire Builder.
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 ~75% under Empire Builder on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
NERTS! Online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Dota Underlords
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Casual with Empire Builder.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Empire Builder.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Casual with Empire Builder.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Shares turn based strategy and an atmospheric mood with Empire Builder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Empire Builder.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Frequently asked about Empire Builder
- How much does Empire Builder cost?
- Empire Builder is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Empire Builder have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Empire Builder supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Empire Builder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empire Builder are 18Korea, Train Metropolis, PicoTrains.
- Who developed Empire Builder?
- Empire Builder was developed by Zombie Possum Games Inc and published by Zombie Possum Games Inc, Darwin's Toys.
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 Builder.
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