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Games like Age of Enlightenment

If Age of Enlightenment is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gilded Destiny, Victoria II and Imperator: Rome — 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 Age of Enlightenment: Shape the destiny of the world as an 18th century ruler. Forge alliances and prepare your armed forces to expand your domain and colonize new lands. Or focus on internal development and help your subjects thrive with prudent economic policy and lawmaking. The choice is yours in Age of Enlightenment!

StrategyIndieSimulationWindows · macOS · Linuxby GSG Johan
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Steam players who put hours into Age of Enlightenment 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. Gilded Destiny

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Age of Enlightenment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Age of Enlightenment.

    Forge empires, incite revolutions, and reshape society in Gilded Destiny, the definitive grand strategy game of the Industrial Age. Take command of your chosen nation and lead it to glory through masterful diplomacy, sweeping industrialization, and decisive warfare.

    2026StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  2. Victoria II

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Age of Enlightenment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Age of Enlightenment.

    Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...

    2010Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Imperator: Rome

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Age of Enlightenment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Age of Enlightenment.

    Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.

    2019StrategySimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. AfterWar

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Age of Enlightenment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Enlightenment.

    AfterWar is a strategy about the world in 2028

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Terra Invicta

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Age of Enlightenment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Age of Enlightenment.

    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.

    2026StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Secret Government

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Age of Enlightenment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Enlightenment.

    Global strategy game about secret societies. You’ll lead the Brotherhood - an organization that juggles the whole world. The key feature of the game is the manipulation of powers. Instead of giving direct orders, the Brotherhood provokes countries into doing what the Brothers want.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Emperor and State

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Age of Enlightenment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Enlightenment.

    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.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.74 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Age of Enlightenment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Age of Enlightenment.

    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!

    2023StrategySimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Age of Enlightenment.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Enlightenment.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  4. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Age of Enlightenment.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Enlightenment.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Age of Enlightenment.

    Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!

    2021IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Age of Enlightenment.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 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 and Indie with Age of Enlightenment.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Age of Enlightenment

What games are most similar to Age of Enlightenment?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Age of Enlightenment are Gilded Destiny, Victoria II, Imperator: Rome.
Who developed Age of Enlightenment?
Age of Enlightenment was developed by GSG Johan.

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 Age of Enlightenment.

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