Games like Circle Empires
If Circle Empires is your kind of game, the closest matches are Seven Nations, Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon and Pursuit of Power® 2 : The Chaos Dimension — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and lighthearted. 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 →Circle Empires is a strategy game released in 2018 by Luminous and published by Iceberg Interactive, available for $8.99. Players expand across a circular map through circle-based conquest, managing resources while building armies that scale with experience. The game includes monster-hunting, scouting, and unit progression mechanics alongside resource management. Reviewers note that simple mechanics hide surprising strategic depth, while players describe the colorful visuals and relaxed pacing as creating a lighthearted, contemplative experience. The variety in units and leaders enables diverse playstyles, with the circle-based conquest system feeling fresh and engaging according to players. Circle Empires is marked as playable on Steam Deck and holds an 89% positive rating from approximately 1,260 Steam reviews.
About Circle Empires: Circle Empires is a fresh take on the RTS genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.
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Seven Nations
WHY THIS
Top pick for Circle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
The leaders of the seven nations failed to reach a peace agreement. All kingdoms are now at war.
Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Circle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
Take command of mighty Vikings, sly Persians or brutish Demons! Destroy your opponent’s base while defending your own in this action-packed side-scrolling RTS!
Pursuit of Power® 2 : The Chaos Dimension
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Circle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
Pursuit of Power® 2 : The Chaos Dimension is a fast-paced real-time strategy game with pixel art. You assume the role of a powerful Shadow Knight, Stalker, or Mage. Upgrade abilities. Dynamic world events. Manage fortresses. Campaign and skirmish (local or network).
SPACECOM
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Circle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.
Cursed Treasure 2
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Circle Empires.
Ranked #5 for Circle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
Why be good when you can be... bad? Cursed Treasure 2 is an addictive tower-defense game that puts the power of darkness at your fingertips. Build towers of powerful orcs, demons, and undead, and master powerful spells, to protect your precious hoard from all manner of no-good do-gooders.
Call to Arms
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Circle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.
BANNERMEN
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Circle Empires.
Ranked #7 for Circle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
A singleplayer fast-paced classic RTS game in which you take on the role of a fallen lord on his journey back to become one of the mightiest in the medieval realm of Valtoria.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Circle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Circle Empires.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Circle Empires
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Circle Empires.
Reviewers of Circle Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Circle Empires.
Reviewers of Circle Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Circle Empires.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
Aircraft War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Circle Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Circle Empires.
Fight against enemy planes with the fun Aircraft War! Challenge your friends with single and double player modes. Conquer the sky, enjoy the victory!
Circle Empires Rivals
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Circle Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
In this fast-paced multiplayer RTS, you and your friends will take control of your own tiny kingdoms and conquer a world made of circles. Each one is overflowing with enemies to fight, monsters to hunt and loot to hoard – but watch out... Friends can quickly become rivals!
WorldBox - God Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Circle Empires.
Reviewers of Circle Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Circle Empires cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Circle Empires at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Circle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Circle Empires.
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 ~44% under Circle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Circle Empires.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Circle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
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 ~44% under Circle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Circle Empires.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Circle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Circle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Circle Empires.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Circle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Circle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Circle Empires.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Circle Empires.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Circle Empires.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Circle Empires.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Circle Empires.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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More from Luminous
Other recommendable Steam games by Luminous, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Circle Empires Rivals
WHY THIS
Another title from Luminous, the studio behind Circle Empires. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
In this fast-paced multiplayer RTS, you and your friends will take control of your own tiny kingdoms and conquer a world made of circles. Each one is overflowing with enemies to fight, monsters to hunt and loot to hoard – but watch out... Friends can quickly become rivals!
Circle Empires 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Circle Empires.
Another title from Luminous, the studio behind Circle Empires. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
CIRCLE EMPIRES returns! Expand your empire, circle by circle, in this fast-paced follow-up to the hit RTS. Gather resources, build armies, and defeat bosses (or your friends) in a world that changes with every game. With unique units and biomes, it's an addictive battle of wits and tactics.
Circle Empires Tactics
WHY THIS
Another title from Luminous, the studio behind Circle Empires. Shares Strategy and Indie with Circle Empires.
It’s Circle Empires like never before! Take to the field in simultaneous turn-based tactical battles. Combine powerful magical tokens to infuse your army with unstoppable power, and take on evil demigods in single player. Or peer into the minds of your friends and predict their plans in multiplayer.
Frequently asked about Circle Empires
- Does Circle Empires run on Steam Deck?
- Circle Empires 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 Circle Empires cost?
- Circle Empires is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Circle Empires?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Circle Empires are Seven Nations, Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon, Pursuit of Power® 2 : The Chaos Dimension.
- Who developed Circle Empires?
- Circle Empires was developed by Luminous and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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