Games like Through the Ages
If Through the Ages is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gremlins, Inc., Twilight Struggle and Concordia: Digital Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and contemplative. 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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Gremlins, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Through the Ages.
Top pick for Through the Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
Twilight Struggle
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Through the Ages.
Second-strongest match for Through the Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Through the Ages.
Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.
Concordia: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an epic mood with Through the Ages.
Third-strongest match for Through the Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Through the Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Through the Ages.
Ranked #5 for Through the Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Through the Ages.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Lorenzo il Magnifico
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Through the Ages.
Ranked #6 for Through the Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Through the Ages.
Florence, the cradle of Italian Renaissance. The city is experiencing an unprecedented economic and cultural flourishing: will your family prevail and control the city?
Ticket to Ride®
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Through the Ages.
Ranked #7 for Through the Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Through the Ages.
Discover a fresh adaptation of the iconic, multi-award-winning board game. Play against fellow fans around the world, or take on state-of-the-art AI opponents. Build a railway empire, claim routes and dominate your competitors on the leaderboards in this fan-favourite modern classic!
Warbands: Bushido
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Through the Ages.
Ranked #8 for Through the Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
Warbands:Bushido is a miniatures board game arena with cards, miniatures, dice and beautiful terrains to fight on, with both multiplayer battles boardgamers are used to, and challenging single-player scenarios.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Through the Ages at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Through the Ages on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
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 ~69% under Through the Ages on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
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 ~50% under Through the Ages on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
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
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Through the Ages.
Priced ~53% under Through the Ages on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Through the Ages.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Through the Ages on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
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 ~50% under Through the Ages on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
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 ~69% under Through the Ages on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
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 ~69% under Through the Ages on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
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?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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More from CGE Digital
Other recommendable Steam games by CGE Digital, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Through the Ages.
Another title from CGE Digital, the studio behind Through the Ages. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
Sign up to be a galaxy trucker today! An adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil’s award-winning board game is now on Steam. Already includes the ALIEN TECHNOLOGIES expansion!
Codenames
WHY THIS
Another title from CGE Digital, the studio behind Through the Ages. Shares Indie with Through the Ages.
Codenames is a clever word game of deduction, teamwork, and strategy, inspired by the popular board game loved worldwide. Give one-word clues, link multiple words, and read your teammates’ minds to win before the other team does.
Lost Ruins of Arnak
WHY THIS
Another title from CGE Digital, the studio behind Through the Ages. Shares Strategy with Through the Ages.
Uncover mysteries on an epic journey to the heart of the uncharted island of Arnak in this captivating blend of deck-building and worker placement. Become the leader of an expedition and dive deep into uncharted territory. But you’re not alone—and fame and glory await only the most successful team.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Gremlins, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Through the Ages.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
Concordia: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an epic mood with Through the Ages.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Ages.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Through the Ages.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Through the Ages.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Frequently asked about Through the Ages
- Does Through the Ages work on Steam Deck?
- Through the Ages is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Through the Ages cost?
- Through the Ages is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Through the Ages have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Through the Ages supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Through the Ages?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Through the Ages are Gremlins, Inc., Twilight Struggle, Concordia: Digital Edition.
- Who developed Through the Ages?
- Through the Ages was developed by CGE Digital.
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 Through the Ages.
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