Games like Overwork Empire
If Overwork Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abarya, Endless Escalation and FrontierLord — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Overwork Empire: Manage, defend, exploit! As the boss, use cards to build, assign staff, and force overtime for profit in this sim/tower defense/card blend. Experience overtime culture from the boss view.
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Abarya
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Top pick for Overwork Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
Defend your core, gather resources, and build a deadly domain in Abarya. Use cards to construct defenses, power your economy, and unleash devastating abilities as relentless enemy waves push your strategy to its limit.
Endless Escalation
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Overwork Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
A strategy-driven incremental where choices actually matter. Upgrade costs scale together, forcing meaningful trade-offs instead of blindly upgrading everything. Build defenses, specialize your army, and adapt to overcome ever-evolving enemy forces.
FrontierLord
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Overwork Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
FrontierLord is a pixel strategy game to build and guard frontier forts. As lord, build villages, collect wood and ore for production. Place siege gear and wall traps, train troops to repel raiders. Balance building and defense, craft your fort and create your frontier legend.
Life, the Universe, and Restaurants
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Ranked #4 for Overwork Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
Run a restaurant in a bizarre universe and cook for customers who call themselves "gods"! Expand your restaurant, deploy robots, and automate your kitchen. Keep business booming—and be ready to deal with any unruly customers.
Ratropolis
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Ranked #5 for Overwork Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
PIGGO
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Ranked #6 for Overwork Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
A chaotic multiplayer party card game where players race to collect four matching cards, bluff their friends, and react at the perfect moment. Play with 2-4 players through fast unpredictable rounds. In PIGGO, it’s never just the cards.
Cat Guardian
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Ranked #7 for Overwork Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
Cat Guardian is a flexible card game blending tower defense and survival. Manage resources, build, and strategize to protect the Tree of Hope from zombies. Can the cats of Meowx Planet succeed in their mission and survive? It’s up to you!
Bump Guardian
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Ranked #8 for Overwork Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Overwork Empire.
Bump Guardian is a deck-building defense game about protecting a growing life. Build your deck, repel incoming threats, and progress through the stages of pregnancy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Overwork Empire at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Overwork Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overwork Empire.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under Overwork Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Overwork Empire.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Overwork Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overwork Empire.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Overwork Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Overwork Empire.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Overwork Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overwork Empire.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under Overwork Empire on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Overwork Empire.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Overwork Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overwork Empire.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Overwork Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Overwork Empire.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Overwork Empire.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Overwork Empire.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
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 Overwork Empire.
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!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Overwork Empire.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Overwork Empire.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Overwork Empire.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Overwork Empire.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Overwork Empire
- How much does Overwork Empire cost?
- Overwork Empire is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Overwork Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Overwork Empire are Abarya, Endless Escalation, FrontierLord.
- Who developed Overwork Empire?
- Overwork Empire was developed by YanBei.
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 Overwork Empire.
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