Games like Empire
If Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Silent Tales: Vermilion Embers, 猎魔者战纪 and OH! RPG! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and epic. 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 →About Empire: In a traditional fantasy RPG, play as several characters in a time of war as they fight for freedom while a greater darkness grows amidst the chaos.
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Steam players who put hours into Empire 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.
Silent Tales: Vermilion Embers
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a contemplative mood with Empire.
Top pick for Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
As if hearing some kind of call, the six former companions returned to their hometown, a mountain covered with red leaves. Here, they will explore the familiar yet strange past, approach the hidden truth, and face the secrets buried in each other's hearts.
OH! RPG!
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with Empire.
Third-strongest match for Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
Heroes always win! But what happens to those who don't? Play as unique and colorful characters as the world comes to an end after our heroes' utter defeat.
浮世万千之前世今生
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empire.
Ranked #4 for Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
"Floating world before the world this life" is an independent stand-alone game, this game is floating world myriad game series in the second.The game is a full-length xiuxian novel stream game, using the traditional turn-based combat system.
吞食孔明传 Tunshi Kongming Legends
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a challenging mood with Empire.
Ranked #5 for Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
吞食孔明传是一款传统的回合制角色扮演独立游戏，讲述了东汉末年的战乱之中，诸葛孔明与刘关张三人从桃园结义开始至一统天下的传奇故事。八个章节的正统剧本，两百位武将登场，可加入玩家阵营突破五十名，二周目开启，百种天赋技能及成就待解锁。
- Arcane Raise -
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Empire.
Ranked #6 for Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
Arcane Raise is a role-playing video game franchise, wherein a group of resurrected hunters known as Shades, fight alongside humans against monsters in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by an infestation. Do you have what it takes to survive this hostile land?
Dragon Spirits
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Empire.
Ranked #7 for Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
While constantly working on a video game without any rest, a college student who's about to graduate quietly slipped into slumber several times. In those lucid dreams, he found himself in the game he was working on, the fantasy world of Dragon Spirits.
Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a contemplative mood with Empire.
Ranked #8 for Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
Learn the basics of Japanese in this interactive role-playing game! No experience needed – start reading and writing in Japanese!
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Mystica
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Empire.
Reviewers of Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Empire.
Mystica is an RPG for those who enjoy an intimately-woven, powerful story with rich characters and a smooth, easy-to-learn (yet still challenging) battle system. Fall into a world full of persecution, breaking tensions, and a mysterious natural force dubbed magic that's changing the planet.
Doom & Destiny
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a challenging mood with Empire.
Reviewers of Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire.
Be ready for the nerdiest adventure of your life! Journey with four everyday friends into this turn based hilarious jrpg filled with parodies and cameos! Explore a huge fantasy world full of secrets, monsters, dungeons and preposterous villains! Nerds are storming fantasy and it's awesome!
CHRONO TRIGGER®
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Empire.
Reviewers of Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Empire.
The timeless RPG classic returns loaded with upgrades! Journey to the forgotten past, to the far future, and to the end of time. A big adventure to save the planet, now begins…
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Empire at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Empire.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Empire.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Empire on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Empire.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Empire.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire.
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!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Ann
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empire.
Ann, an art student finds herself trapped in the school when she accidentally broke one of the school's rules. With the help of the school's security guard, help Ann navigate her way out and uncover the secrets of the school before she becomes a permanent resident of the school.
At Home Alone
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empire.
This is a recreational healing Mini-plot game explored at home. Players will play and wander around the house from the perspective of a little girl. What will she do when she is alone? What strange stories will happen in the process, and in the process of exploration, you may find some strange secrets....
Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Empire.
Captain Gail Pilgrim has been flying starships since she was a kid, ferrying passengers between planets and space stations across the galaxy. She has no reason to expect that this latest trip to Alpha Centauri will be anything special, even if her passengers are a little more diverse than usual....
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Empire.
The Startling Developments Detective Agency springs into action as On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 begins, set in motion by a call from a mysterious source. The ever escalating perils on the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will season our tender heroes to their very core!
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Frequently asked about Empire
- How much does Empire cost?
- Empire is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Empire are Silent Tales: Vermilion Embers, 猎魔者战纪, OH! RPG!.
- Who developed Empire?
- Empire was developed by Clecota Games.
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 Empire.
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