Games like Explorers of Esmar
If Explorers of Esmar is your kind of game, the closest matches are Age of Bricks, Empires of Black Powder and Mandate Order — 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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Age of Bricks
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Top pick for Explorers of Esmar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Explorers of Esmar.
A real-time strategy multiplayer classic. Build your base brick by brick, then raise an army against your friends online. Or save your friendship and team up together to defeat a hard army.
Empires of Black Powder
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Second-strongest match for Explorers of Esmar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
It’s the Napoleonic era, and you must build the battlefield you fight on. Send Pioneers to gather supplies, expand the local town, and prepare your defenses. Command companies in formation, keep your veterans alive, and carry their experience and upgrades into the next battle.
Mandate Order
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Third-strongest match for Explorers of Esmar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Stronghold: Warlords
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Ranked #4 for Explorers of Esmar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Explorers of Esmar.
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!
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #5 for Explorers of Esmar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Explorers of Esmar.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition
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Ranked #6 for Explorers of Esmar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
One of the most innovative Real-Time Strategy Games comes back totally renewed and improved to the smallest detail, with epic large scale battles, new civilizations, unit customization system never seen before in a game, 8K support, and much more.
Total War: ATTILA
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Ranked #7 for Explorers of Esmar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Explorers of Esmar.
Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...
Ground of Aces
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Ranked #8 for Explorers of Esmar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Explorers of Esmar.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Explorers of Esmar at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~69% under Explorers of Esmar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
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 ~69% under Explorers of Esmar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~56% under Explorers of Esmar on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Explorers of Esmar.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~50% under Explorers of Esmar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
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
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Priced ~53% under Explorers of Esmar on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Explorers of Esmar.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~61% under Explorers of Esmar on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
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 ~50% under Explorers of Esmar on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
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...
How to Fish
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Priced ~69% under Explorers of Esmar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
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.
Liquidators
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Explorers of Esmar.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Explorers of Esmar.
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!
Nazi Zombies
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Early Access with Explorers of Esmar.
Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.
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Frequently asked about Explorers of Esmar
- Does Explorers of Esmar run on Steam Deck?
- Explorers of Esmar 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 Explorers of Esmar cost?
- Explorers of Esmar is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Explorers of Esmar have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Explorers of Esmar supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Explorers of Esmar?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Explorers of Esmar are Age of Bricks, Empires of Black Powder, Mandate Order.
- Who developed Explorers of Esmar?
- Explorers of Esmar was developed by Tipri Games.
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