Games like Kingdom Ascension
If Kingdom Ascension is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bergfried, Empires Edge and Imperial Kingdoms — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, chill 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 Kingdom Ascension: Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.
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Steam players who put hours into Kingdom Ascension 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.
Bergfried
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kingdom Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Ascension.
Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!
Empires Edge
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kingdom Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
Empires Edge is a 4X-lite strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Tyrants: Fight Through Time (Mega Lo Mania). Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Imperial Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kingdom Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Ascension.
Lead a medieval kingdom through expansion, warfare and economic growth. Manage resources, supply your capital and research new technologies to strengthen your realm. Customize your armies and conquer rival kingdoms across dynamic hex maps.
Renaissance Kingdom Wars - Prologue
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Kingdom Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
The year is 1510. In this grand strategy & RTS hybrid you play as one of a dozen characters across medieval Europe, Africa and Middle East. Start as a landless mercenary captain. Fight your way to become a minor lord. Rise up through Kingdoms hierarchy and be crowned, then expand your Kingdom.
Driftland: The Magic Revival
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Kingdom Ascension.
Ranked #5 for Kingdom Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!
Dune: Spice Wars
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Kingdom Ascension.
Ranked #6 for Kingdom Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Ascension.
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Trade Conquest
WHY THIS
Shares resource management, strategy and an intense mood with Kingdom Ascension.
Ranked #7 for Kingdom Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
Rise from a cunning strategist to a powerful ruler. Master economic warfare, manipulate global events, and build industries or armies to conquer the world. Every decision in this modern Grand Strategy game shapes your ascent to power—will you rise through wealth or force?
Grand Ages: Medieval
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Kingdom Ascension.
Ranked #8 for Kingdom Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Ascension.
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Kingdom Ascension
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Mount & Blade
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Ascension.
Reviewers of Kingdom Ascension cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
Total War: WARHAMMER
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Ascension.
Reviewers of Kingdom Ascension cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Ascension.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Kingdom Ascension.
Reviewers of Kingdom Ascension cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Kingdom Ascension.
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
Tiny Civilization
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Kingdom Ascension.
Reviewers of Kingdom Ascension cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Ascension.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kingdom Ascension at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Kingdom Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Kingdom Ascension.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Kingdom Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Kingdom Ascension.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Kingdom Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Kingdom Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
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 ~58% under Kingdom Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Kingdom Ascension.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Kingdom Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Ascension.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Kingdom Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Ascension.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Kingdom Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Ascension.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom Ascension.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Ascension.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Ascension.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kingdom Ascension.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Kingdom Ascension.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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Frequently asked about Kingdom Ascension
- Does Kingdom Ascension run on Steam Deck?
- Kingdom Ascension 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 Kingdom Ascension cost?
- Kingdom Ascension is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kingdom Ascension?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdom Ascension are Bergfried, Empires Edge, Imperial Kingdoms.
- Who developed Kingdom Ascension?
- Kingdom Ascension was developed by RainRingStudio.
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 Kingdom Ascension.
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