Games like Empires
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to Empires for fans of action, adventure, early access, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Empires also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, more from Interactive Gaming Studios. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Empires: Empires is a medieval survival game. After your merchant ship collided with rocks and ran aground you must survive on the unknown island. Gather, craft, survive!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Renown
Top pick for Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
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KINGDOMS
Second-strongest match for Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
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ENDALOR
Third-strongest match for Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
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Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
Ranked #4 for Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
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The Black Death
Ranked #5 for Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
Plague has left a trail of destruction across 14th century Europe. Survivors confront sickness and scarce resources in a land rife with banditry. Fight for scarce resources and learn new crafting techniques. But at all times you MUST avoid the plague. This is the land of ‘The Black Death’.
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Iridio
Ranked #6 for Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
Seized by criminals, the island designated for your research needs your help. Join Yatziri and the Wazhari tribe to liberate their hostages, explore hidden secrets, craft essential items and weapons, and strategically use fire and water in challenging puzzles and life-or-death battles for survival.
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The Black Masses
Ranked #7 for Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
The Black Masses is an open world first-person fantasy co-op RPG. You find yourself stranded on an island corrupted by a strange black substance. Its unsuspecting inhabitants, once a strong flourishing society, have been possessed into mindless creatures, bent on the destruction of life.
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SurrounDead
Ranked #8 for Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Interactive Gaming Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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Titanic: The Experience
Another title from Interactive Gaming Studios, the studio behind Empires. Shares Adventure with Empires.
Experience the Titanic in all of its glory, witness the iceberg collision and the sinking of the most famous ocean liner. Relive that fateful night on April 14th 1912 and experience what that night was like.
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Britannic
Another title from Interactive Gaming Studios, the studio behind Empires. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
Welcome aboard the HMHS Britannic, the sister ship to the RMS Titanic. Experience first-hand how the biggest ship in the world met its demise in 1916 after striking a mine during World War 1.
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Titanic: Fall Of A Legend
Another title from Interactive Gaming Studios, the studio behind Empires. Shares Action with Empires.
Step aboard the RMS Titanic and experience the last moments of the most famous ocean liner to have ever been built. This unique experience provides you with the tragic events in extraordinary detail that caused the Titanic's demise.
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Isolation
Another title from Interactive Gaming Studios, the studio behind Empires. Shares Adventure with Empires.
The plague destroyed the world you once knew. This unknown bacteria destroyed the lives of many people who lived in various countries around the world. When the plague was first identified by doctors, researchers started working on a cure immediately. The infected people were transported into hospitals to isolate them from other people.
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2100
Another title from Interactive Gaming Studios, the studio behind Empires. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
Welcome to the year 2100. You have been selected to conduct research on the most advanced space station in all of the history of mankind with the most advanced AI. However, things start to take a turn for the worse when the AI begins to turn against you.
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Lusitania: The Experience
Another title from Interactive Gaming Studios, the studio behind Empires. Shares Action and Adventure with Empires.
Welcome aboard the RMS Lusitania, a luxurious ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat during World War 1. Immerse yourself in this detailed unique experience of how this great liner met its final moments on the 7th May 1915.
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Wilhelm Gustloff's Death
Another title from Interactive Gaming Studios, the studio behind Empires. Shares Adventure with Empires.
It is World War 2 and you are aboard the MV Wilhelm Gustloff which has just been struck with 3 torpedo strikes. You will relive the MV Wilhelm Gustloff's final moments in this atmospheric simulation.
Frequently asked about Empires
- What games are most similar to Empires?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empires are Renown, KINGDOMS, ENDALOR.
- Who developed Empires?
- Empires was developed by Interactive Gaming Studios.
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