Games like After the Empire
If After the Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Galactic Empire, Reshaping Mars and The Last Federation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its archetype philosophy bonuses, automated expansion feels satisfying and elegant minimalist design. 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 After the Empire: Build a galaxy-spanning machine empire! Bend galactic geography to your will to seize hundreds of territories with Fleet, Crypto and Glory. Master your economy with Guilds, Trade Routes and Pilgrimages. Prove your faith, honor your culture, and conquer the Milky Way!
Players who liked After the Empire also play
Steam players who put hours into After the Empire 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.
Galactic Empire
WHY THIS
Top pick for After the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Galactic Empire is a 2D turn-based strategy game where you, as the Commander, decide the fate of the entire universe. Expand your planet, explore solar systems, play cards in cantinas, modify your ships and conquer more planets.
Reshaping Mars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After the Empire.
Second-strongest match for After the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After the Empire.
Third-strongest match for After the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Distant Worlds: Universe
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with After the Empire.
Ranked #4 for After the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with After the Empire.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After the Empire.
Ranked #5 for After the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with After the Empire.
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for After the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
SPACECOM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After the Empire.
Ranked #7 for After the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.
Horizon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with After the Empire.
Ranked #8 for After the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below After the Empire at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under After the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After the Empire.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under After the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with After the Empire.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under After the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After the Empire.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under After the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with After the Empire.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under After the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After the Empire.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under After the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After the Empire.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under After the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After the Empire.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under After the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After the Empire.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with After the Empire.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Galcon 2 is a demolition derby in space! Send swarms of ships from planet to planet to conquer the galaxy in this fast paced multiplayer strategy game!
Quasimorph: End of Dream
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Quasimorph: End of Dream is the first chapter of the extraction turn-based RPG Quasimorph. Confront your fears in brutal shootouts with PMC -fighters and demons and try to survive to complete your mission and bring the gear back to your spaceship!
Space Choice: Data Analyzer
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
A little experimental game about making many choices quickly. Pick from 3 options, then do it again, and again, and again... Make the best out of a bad situation. Do it as quickly as you can because time is the most valuable resource at your disposal.
Bow to Blood: Last Captain Standing
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Become a Captain! Fly your ship and command your crew as you compete to become Champion in a winner-takes-all reality show. Build relationships and plot betrayals to avoid getting voted off the season and become the last captain standing. Optional VR support.
Star Tactics Redux
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Turn-based strategy game full of spacefleet battles. 30+ hours of gameplay, randomized battles, huge campaign with different ways of completion. Experience infinite tactical situations and outsmart the tricky AI using dozens of ships and special abilities.
Orbit-X
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with After the Empire.
Launch a rocket. Extend the Antenna. Set your internet service price and start making money. Oh and shoot down asteroids if they threaten your satellites.
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Frequently asked about After the Empire
- How much does After the Empire cost?
- After the Empire is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to After the Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside After the Empire are Galactic Empire, Reshaping Mars, The Last Federation.
- Who developed After the Empire?
- After the Empire was developed by Goatee Games.
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 After the Empire.
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