Games like Empire Architect
If Empire Architect is your kind of game, the closest matches are Depraved, Kingdoms and Castles and Stronghold HD (2012) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and cozy. 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 Empire Architect: Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects
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Depraved
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Empire Architect.
Top pick for Empire Architect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Empire Architect.
Second-strongest match for Empire Architect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Stronghold HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Empire Architect.
Third-strongest match for Empire Architect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Empire Architect.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Empire Architect.
Ranked #4 for Empire Architect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Empire Architect.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Ostriv
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Empire Architect.
Ranked #5 for Empire Architect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
1849
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Empire Architect.
Ranked #6 for Empire Architect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Empire Architect.
Ranked #7 for Empire Architect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Patron
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Empire Architect.
Ranked #8 for Empire Architect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Empire Architect.
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Empire Architect
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Caesar™ IV
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Empire Architect.
Reviewers of Empire Architect cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Empire Architect.
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
Run Zeus Run
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Empire Architect.
Reviewers of Empire Architect cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Empire Architect.
"Run Zeus Run" is an endless runner with modern mechanics of a platformer, dynamic music, incremental challenge needing patience, focus and bit of strategy. Try to get the highest score, the highest amount of coins, the highest monster kills and play until you are the best Zeus in the world.
Zeus Begins
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Empire Architect cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Empire Architect.
Help the young Zeus to come back to Olympus and defeat Cronus. Cronus ate all of his sons but Zeus escaped with the help of his mother,he trained so hard in combat to defeat all the enemies that Cronus send to him. Fight with mythologic creatures and titans across Grece in a beat´em up game!
Pharaoh™: A New Era
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Empire Architect.
Reviewers of Empire Architect cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Empire Architect.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Empire Architect at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Empire Architect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empire Architect.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Empire Architect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire Architect.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Empire Architect on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Empire Architect.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Empire Architect on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Empire Architect.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Empire Architect on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Empire Architect on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Empire Architect on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Empire Architect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Empire Architect.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empire Architect.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empire Architect.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empire Architect.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empire Architect.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empire Architect.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire Architect.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empire Architect.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Empire Architect.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from Batholith Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Batholith Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Zavix Tower
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a relaxing mood with Empire Architect.
Another title from Batholith Entertainment, the studio behind Empire Architect. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Zavix Tower is an old-school, party-based, first-person CRPG with rogue-like elements, an upgrade-able and persistent town, and turn-based combat.
Hydraulic Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Empire Architect.
Another title from Batholith Entertainment, the studio behind Empire Architect. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Hydraulic Empire is a Tower Defense game with RPG elements focusing on strategy, interactions between mobs, and persistent upgrades. Hydraulic empire is a must have for any true Tower Defense fan, and for those that are not it is a gateway into the tower defense genre.
Guilds Of Delenar
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Empire Architect.
Another title from Batholith Entertainment, the studio behind Empire Architect. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Guilds of Delenar is a strategy RPG with a tactical turn-based combat system where you fight to build your guild from nothing into a guild known across the realm. Manage your heroes, their gear, what quests you do, and command them in battle.
Zavix Tower 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Batholith Entertainment, the studio behind Empire Architect. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire Architect.
Zavix Tower 2 is a challenging Party based roguelike with turn-based RPG about Dungeon Crawling through a tower. Recruit Heroes, Upgrade your Town and try to help your mysterious host unravel the mysteries within Zavix Tower!
Frequently asked about Empire Architect
- How much does Empire Architect cost?
- Empire Architect is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Empire Architect?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empire Architect are Depraved, Kingdoms and Castles, Stronghold HD (2012).
- Who developed Empire Architect?
- Empire Architect was developed by Batholith Entertainment.
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 Empire Architect.
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