Games like Modern Wars
If Modern Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shadow Division: Spymaster, Mandate Order and Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator — 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 Modern Wars: Modern Wars is a modern geopolitical simulation where you watch AI-controlled nations fight wars, expand territory, form alliances, collapse into civil wars, create puppet states, and react to changing world events over time.
Players who liked Modern Wars also play
Steam players who put hours into Modern Wars 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.
Shadow Division: Spymaster
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Top pick for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Modern Wars.
Lead your nation's intelligence agency through an invasion in the modern day. Recruit and manage spies, uncover double agents, run covert operations, and manipulate foreign powers to secure the support your country needs to survive.
Mandate Order
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Second-strongest match for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
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Third-strongest match for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Modern Wars.
Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!
Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #4 for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
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.
Warnament
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Ranked #5 for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
A turn-based grand strategy game, simple for newbies yet challenging for masters. As the leader of a nation, you will conquer territories and advance in military, technology, culture, or politics. Choose from historical scenarios or create your own with an editor.
King's Orders
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Ranked #6 for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.
Rogue State Revolution
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Ranked #7 for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold
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Ranked #8 for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Modern Wars.
Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold contains Supreme Ruler 2020 and the expansion, Global Crisis: SUPREME RULER 2020 Overnight, the US dollar crashes AND the sound echoes across the globe. The economic crisis amplifies global instabilities and regional disputes, tearing the world asunder. Nations dissolve, economies collapse, and tensions escalate.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Modern Wars.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Lab
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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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Modern Wars.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Modern Wars.
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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Early Access with Modern Wars.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Meteor 60 Seconds!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Modern Wars.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
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Frequently asked about Modern Wars
- What games are most similar to Modern Wars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Modern Wars are Shadow Division: Spymaster, Mandate Order, Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator.
- Who developed Modern Wars?
- Modern Wars was developed by man_82.
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 Modern Wars.
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