Games like Cliff Empire
If Cliff Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Endzone - A World Apart, Foundation and Kingdoms and Castles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its disasters force adaptive planning, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →Cliff Empire is a strategy simulation released in 2019 by Lion's Shade, set in a post-nuclear world where a radioactive fog has rendered the surface uninhabitable. Players construct and manage settlements across vertical cliff faces, balancing building and demolition with resource scarcity and disaster management. The game involves strategic trade between isolated cliff settlements, a prestige system that resets progress to enable upgrades, and challenging gameplay that reviewers describe as atmospheric, contemplative, and immersive. Players highlight that unexpected disasters force adaptive planning, the retro-futuristic aesthetic is striking, and the vertical space necessitates constant rebuilding. Cliff Empire costs $17.99, runs as a playable title on Steam Deck, and maintains an 85% positive rating from 1,699 Steam reviews.
About Cliff Empire: After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
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Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cliff Empire.
Top pick for Cliff Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cliff Empire.
Second-strongest match for Cliff Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cliff Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
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.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cliff Empire.
Ranked #4 for Cliff Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cliff Empire.
Ranked #5 for Cliff Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Ostriv
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cliff Empire.
Ranked #6 for Cliff Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
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.
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cliff Empire.
Ranked #7 for Cliff Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cliff Empire.
Ranked #8 for Cliff Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cliff Empire.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cliff Empire.
Reviewers of Cliff Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cliff Empire.
Reviewers of Cliff Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
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?
Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cliff Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
NieR:Automata™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cliff Empire.
Reviewers of Cliff Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cliff Empire.
Reviewers of Cliff Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cliff Empire.
Reviewers of Cliff Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cliff Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Cliff Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Cliff Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cliff Empire.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Cliff Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Cliff Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cliff Empire.
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 ~56% under Cliff Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cliff Empire.
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 ~58% under Cliff Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cliff Empire.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cliff Empire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cliff Empire.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
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 and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
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!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cliff Empire.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cliff Empire.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Cliff Empire
- Does Cliff Empire run on Steam Deck?
- Cliff Empire is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Cliff Empire cost?
- Cliff Empire is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cliff Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cliff Empire are Endzone - A World Apart, Foundation, Kingdoms and Castles.
- Who developed Cliff Empire?
- Cliff Empire was developed by Lion's Shade.
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