Games like Tides of Empires
If Tides of Empires is your kind of game, the closest matches are World of Warships, Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition and Wargame: Red Dragon — 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 Tides of Empires: Two empires, one sea. Tides of Empires is the tower defense you can finally play competitively — ranked ELO 1v1 & 2v2 plus co-op survival. Command warships, aircraft and submarines through a 25-level campaign, endless Survival and boss fights. Rule the tides.
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Steam players who put hours into Tides of Empires 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.
World of Warships
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Top pick for Tides of Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tides of Empires.
Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 800 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
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Second-strongest match for Tides of Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tides of Empires.
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Wargame: Red Dragon
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Third-strongest match for Tides of Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Empires.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
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Ranked #4 for Tides of Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tides of Empires.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Broken Arrow
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Ranked #5 for Tides of Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tides of Empires.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
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Ranked #6 for Tides of Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tides of Empires.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
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Ranked #7 for Tides of Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Empires.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
Element TD 2 - Tower Defense
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Ranked #8 for Tides of Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Empires.
Element TD 2 sees you combine powerful elements to create unique towers. Prove your defenses against challenging foes, and compete or cooperate with others to determine who has mastered the elements.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Empires.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Empires.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Empires.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Empires.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tides of Empires.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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 Tides of Empires.
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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
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Frequently asked about Tides of Empires
- Does Tides of Empires have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Tides of Empires supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Tides of Empires?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tides of Empires are World of Warships, Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition, Wargame: Red Dragon.
- Who developed Tides of Empires?
- Tides of Empires was developed by AtomicPixelGames.
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 Tides of Empires.
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