Games like I WAS A KING
If I WAS A KING is your kind of game, the closest matches are 朕不想死！, Age of History 2: Definitive Edition and Victoria 3 — 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 I WAS A KING: A court-driven, text-based strategy game where your words become decrees. Two petitions per turn—type carefully, face the backlash, and remember: you WERE a King.
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朕不想死！
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Top pick for I WAS A KING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with I WAS A KING.
Late Ming collapse—you carry a ruler’s secret in a world of blades and famine. Card combat drives battles and plot branches; AI persuasion challenges key figures, and skill cards help you win. Minigames change what comes next. Raise attributes and destiny, explore for events, items.
Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
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Second-strongest match for I WAS A KING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with I WAS A KING.
The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.
Victoria 3
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Third-strongest match for I WAS A KING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with I WAS A KING.
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
Arms Race 2
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Ranked #4 for I WAS A KING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with I WAS A KING.
Arms Race 2 is a PC strategy game based on the historical conflict between the USA and the USSR that took place in the 20th century.
Socialism Simulator
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Ranked #5 for I WAS A KING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with I WAS A KING.
The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country. The young socialist state proudly raises its flags, its eyes fixed on a distant, bright future.
Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution
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Ranked #6 for I WAS A KING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with I WAS A KING.
1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own alternative history by combining cunning political skills and tactical military prowess.
Bad Government
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Ranked #7 for I WAS A KING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with I WAS A KING.
Manage your resources and navigate the shifting sentiment of the population in this decision-based resource management game. Gain power to unlock more individuals, adding complexity as you progress. How long can you maintain balance?
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
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Ranked #8 for I WAS A KING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with I WAS A KING.
Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
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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 I WAS A KING.
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!
It gets so lonely here
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with I WAS A KING.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
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 I WAS A KING.
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.
Crusader Kings II
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with I WAS A KING.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with I WAS A KING.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Emily is Away
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with I WAS A KING.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
One-armed robber
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with I WAS A KING.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
War Selection
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with I WAS A KING.
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside I WAS A KING are 朕不想死！, Age of History 2: Definitive Edition, Victoria 3.
- Who developed I WAS A KING?
- I WAS A KING was developed by Heritage Incorporation.
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