Games like How Empires Work
If How Empires Work is your kind of game, the closest matches are 昭明日月 Pax Serica: Rise of the Ming, 1992: Rasputie and 明末：甲申年 — 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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昭明日月 Pax Serica: Rise of the Ming
WHY THIS
Top pick for How Empires Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
昭昭天命，复归大明。在星变时空的恢弘重塑中，熔铸八十三载春秋：变钞法以通有无，革军制而强九边；修水利以固邦本，改科举而纳贤良。崇格物方致知穷理；兴矿冶而器利工商。靖九边以抚八方，镇四海而服万邦。于庙算奏疏间，重整日月山河；在革故鼎新中，再创中华治世。一切，皆在你一念之间。
1992: Rasputie
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for How Empires Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
Take a place of a politician in the post-Soviet space and immerse yourself in the struggle for power amid the ruins of the former empire. Your decisions will determine the path of the young state's development.
明末：甲申年
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for How Empires Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with How Empires Work.
公元1644年，甲申之变。李自成兵临北京，清军虎视关外，大明江山风雨飘摇。在这天命更迭的十字路口，你可以选择成为崇祯皇帝，在绝境中重振朝纲；亦可投身闯王麾下，为大顺开疆拓土；甚至扮演诸方势力或平民问鼎中原。这是一款基于真实历史的大语言模型辅助驱动策略游戏。
Simulator of Ukraine 1991
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Ranked #4 for How Empires Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.
Imperial Ambitions
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Ranked #5 for How Empires Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with How Empires Work.
Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...
Mouspionage
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Ranked #6 for How Empires Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
Command a covert network of animal agents in this active incremental game. Infiltrate homes, steal valuable assets, and extract top-secret intel to expand your operation and pull off increasingly daring heists.
Globalism
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Ranked #7 for How Empires Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with How Empires Work.
A global strategy for the 21st century. The threat of nuclear war, economic inequality, overpopulation of some regions and extinction of other regions, the crisis of capitalism... Find your solutions to the current problems of mankind!
Age of Enlightenment
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Ranked #8 for How Empires Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
Shape the destiny of the world as an 18th century ruler. Forge alliances and prepare your armed forces to expand your domain and colonize new lands. Or focus on internal development and help your subjects thrive with prudent economic policy and lawmaking. The choice is yours in Age of Enlightenment!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with How Empires Work.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with How Empires Work.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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 How Empires Work.
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!
Tukoni: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with How Empires Work.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with How Empires Work.
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!
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 How Empires Work.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with How Empires Work.
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!
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- What games are most similar to How Empires Work?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside How Empires Work are 昭明日月 Pax Serica: Rise of the Ming, 1992: Rasputie, 明末：甲申年.
- Who developed How Empires Work?
- How Empires Work was developed by Crow Cottage.
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