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Games like The Wild Age

If The Wild Age is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores, Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand and Kingdoms and Castles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its 3d visuals enhance immersion, mounts feel impactful and atmospheric. 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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About The Wild Age: The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.

2020StrategyIndieSimulationCasual12.99 USDWindowsby McMagic Productions
The Wild Age — Steam game cover
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3d visuals enhance immersionDay night cycle forces strategic pacingMounts feel impactfulAtmosphericChillContemplative

Players who liked The Wild Age also play

Steam players who put hours into The Wild Age 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.

  1. The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Wild Age.

    Top pick for The Wild Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Wild Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Kingdoms and Castles

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with The Wild Age.

    Third-strongest match for The Wild Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    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.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Kingdom Two Crowns

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Wild Age.

    Ranked #4 for The Wild Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Stronghold: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Wild Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Wild Age.

    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.

    2023StrategySimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Phoenix Hope

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Wild Age.

    Ranked #6 for The Wild Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Riftbreaker

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense and resource management with The Wild Age.

    Ranked #7 for The Wild Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Frostpunk

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Wild Age.

    Ranked #8 for The Wild Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Wild Age.

    Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

    2018StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Wild Age

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. KINGDOMS

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Wild Age cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Wild Age.

    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.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Walking Zombie 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Wild Age.

    Reviewers of The Wild Age cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Wild Age.

    Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.

    2019ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Wild Age cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Polygon War

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Wild Age cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    A 2D comic-style squad survival game. Command triangle, square, and pentagon characters through waves of increasing difficulty. Mount weapons on every edge — blades, guns, flamethrowers, and more. Stack same weapons for gear combo bonuses. Burn, freeze, or shatter foes using material weaknesses.

    2026ActionEarly Access1.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Wild Age at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Wild Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Wild Age.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Wild Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Wild Age.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under The Wild Age on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Wild Age.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under The Wild Age on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Wild Age on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wild Age.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Wild Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Wild Age.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under The Wild Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Wild Age.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Wild Age on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Wild Age.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Wild Age.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Wild Age.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 The Wild Age.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Wild Age.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Wild Age.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Wild Age.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Wild Age

How much does The Wild Age cost?
The Wild Age is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Wild Age?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Wild Age are The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores, Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Kingdoms and Castles.
Who developed The Wild Age?
The Wild Age was developed by McMagic Productions.

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 The Wild Age.

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