Games like Fault Lines
If Fault Lines is your kind of game, the closest matches are Choice of History, The Helios Accord and Conglomerate — 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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Players who liked Fault Lines also play
Steam players who put hours into Fault Lines 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.
Choice of History
WHY THIS
Top pick for Fault Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Choice of History is a deep historical sim where you rule as one of 673 real sovereigns across China, Rome, Britain, America, and Russia. Make monthly decisions through 60,000+ events, climb a 1,158-node tech tree, and balance rival factions. Your choices echo through history—no right answer.
The Helios Accord
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Fault Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
The Helios Accord is a post-scarcity science-fiction grand strategy game. Govern by consent, set doctrine, negotiate with civilizations, and send Citizen Minds beyond known space. Then Serenity of Dawn disappears. No wreckage. No distress call. Only an impossible signal that changes when observed.
Conglomerate
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Fault Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
You’re the CEO. Build your company into a thriving conglomerate, managing the cash flow, product launches, funding and hiring decisions. Build a conglomerate or go bankrupt trying.
Paper Flags
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Fault Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
A two-player abstract strategy game on a 9×9 board. Fold your pieces to advance diagonally. Unfold them into flags — moving like rooks across rank and file. Plant three flags on your opponent's back row, or cut their forces to three.
War in Asia
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Fault Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Take command of any faction in the East Asian theater of World War II (1937–1945). Govern your nation’s military, economy, and transportation through realistic simulation systems, and direct your forces via a structured chain of command across a 7 km-scale map to conduct operations.
Asia Empire 2027
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Fault Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Lead your Asian empire in an empire building turn based strategy war game. Are you ready to lead, Supreme Commander?
Africa Empire 2027
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Fault Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Lead your African empire in an empire building turn based strategy war game. Are you ready to lead, Supreme Commander?
Statecraft: Corrupted Democracy
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Fault Lines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Democracy is dirty; get your hands filthy. Manipulate the masses like a flock of sheep, bribe the parliament, and sabotage your rivals. In the chaos of the 70s, honesty is a weakness. Will you be a savior or a dictator? The choice *and the corruption* is yours.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fault Lines at current Steam store prices.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Fault Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Fault Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Fault Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Fault Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Fault Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Fault Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Lead the great armies of the Star Wars™ Episode II: Attack of the Clones saga in intense real-time strategy clashes. Enter the fray as the Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Wookies, Trade Federation, Gungans or Royal Naboo to determine the course of the Galactic Civil War.
Russian Life Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Fault Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.
Achievement Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Fault Lines on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on steam!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
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 Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
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.
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 with Fault Lines.
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!
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Emily is Away
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Card Hunter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.
Battle for Wesnoth
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Fault Lines.
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.
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Frequently asked about Fault Lines
- How much does Fault Lines cost?
- Fault Lines is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Fault Lines?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fault Lines are Choice of History, The Helios Accord, Conglomerate.
- Who developed Fault Lines?
- Fault Lines was developed by Andreas Müller.
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 Fault Lines.
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