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Games like Nation

If Nation is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Fallen Kingdoms, Odin's Chess and Unmatched: Digital Edition — 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 Nation: Nation is a head-to-head civilization card duel. Take your people from mud huts to giant robots one card at a time, gathering Food, Happiness, Science, Coins, and Swords to drop your rival from 70 health to zero. Play campaigns, ranked online 1v1, private matches, and pass and play.

StrategyIndieCasualWindows · macOSby William Urvan, Wyatt Gable
Nation — Steam game cover

Players who liked Nation also play

Steam players who put hours into Nation 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. The Fallen Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Nation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nation.

    A brand-new board game that combines turn-based strategy and card-drafting mechanics to provide an enjoyable experience with friends! Build your kingdom, defeat your rivals, and seize the throne!

    2024Strategy3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Odin's Chess

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Nation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nation.

    A clash of gods played over sixty four squares. Three rule sets share one board: a classical match of kings, a variant where you raise your host from a hand of cards, and a roguelike where every kill reshapes the killer.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Unmatched: Digital Edition

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Nation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nation.

    Unmatched: Digital Edition is a highly asymmetrical game of card-driven battles between epic heroes from story and myth. ⚔️ Witness clashes you've never seen before in duels or team fights. 💥 In battle, there are no equals! 💥

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Undaunted Normandy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Nation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nation.

    Play the acclaimed World War 2 deck-building game. Use your cards to seize the initiative, bolster your forces, or control your troops on the battlefield. You will face intense resistance, machine gun fire, and mortar bombardment, but a great commander can turn the situation to their advantage!

    2023StrategyEarly AccessDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Blood Rage: Digital Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Nation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nation.

    Ragnarök is coming! The sky is falling and the end is upon you… In Blood Rage, the digital adaptation of the hit strategy board game, you lead a proud Viking clan in their final fight for glory.

    2020Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Nation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Nation.

    Lead your fighters to Glory in the ultimate PvP dice-and-cards strategy combat game. Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition pits mighty warbands against one another in an eternal battle for glory in the realms of the Age of Sigmar.

    2020StrategyCasual29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. MACHI KORO With Everyone

    WHY THIS

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

    Gather up to THREE friends to join you in "MACHI KORO With Everyone"! The multi-million selling hit game from Japan is now on Steam! Online, offline, play how you like with whom you like!

    2024StrategyIndieCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Roll Player - The Board Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Nation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nation.

    Create the ultimate Fantasy character by rolling dice, building attributes, purchasing weapons, gaining skills, and discovering character traits in Roll Player, a digital adaptation of a popular board game of dice manipulation and strategy!

    2023StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 ↗
  2. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. Samorost 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Nation.

    Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.

    2021IndieAdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. 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 Nation.

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

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

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NERTS! Online

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Nation.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Mizi NO!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Nation.

    In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over.

    2024IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Nation

Does Nation have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Nation supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
What games are most similar to Nation?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nation are The Fallen Kingdoms, Odin's Chess, Unmatched: Digital Edition.
Who developed Nation?
Nation was developed by William Urvan, Wyatt Gable and published by Corkscrew Games.

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 Nation.

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