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Games like Modern Wars

If Modern Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shadow Division: Spymaster, Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator and Warnament — 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 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.

2026ActionStrategyIndieSimulationEarly AccessWindowsby man_82
Modern Wars — Steam game cover

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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.

  1. Shadow Division: Spymaster

    WHY THIS

    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.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  2. Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Second-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!

    2023IndieSimulationCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Warnament

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match 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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Age of History 2: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2026StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENDLESS™ Legend 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Modern Wars.

    Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.

    2025StrategySimulationRPG49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. King's Orders

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Rogue State Revolution

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Crusader Kings III

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Modern Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Modern Wars.

    Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

    2020StrategySimulationRPG49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 ↗
  4. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Electoral Carnage

    WHY THIS

    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?

    2026ActionFree To PlayEarly AccessFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Aircar

    WHY THIS

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

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Meteor 60 Seconds!

    WHY THIS

    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?

    2018ActionIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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, Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator, Warnament.
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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