Games like Jon Shafer's At the Gates
Looking for games like Jon Shafer's At the Gates? Here are top turn-based strategy recommendations with a historical focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Millennia, Pax Nova or StarDrive 2.
1 68%Game Brain Scoregameplay, replayabilitygraphics, optimization69% User Score 3,194 reviewsCritic Score 66%5 reviewsCreate your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
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57%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, music55% User Score 292 reviewsCritic Score 65%1 reviewsA sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as new dangers. Build new cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.
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61%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding55% User Score 2,790 reviewsCritic Score 69%6 reviewsStarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles. As the galactic ruler of your race you will lead your people into a procedurally-generated galaxy, exploring and expanding your space empire to greatness. Exploi…
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, grinding90% User Score 7,900 reviewsKingdom Reborn is a city-builder with multiplayer and open world. Guide your citizens. Grow from a tiny village to a prosperous city. Upgrade your houses and technology through eras. With multiplayer, you can cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in the same open world.
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73%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, music70% User Score 3,688 reviewsCritic Score 80%4 reviewsDistant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. The Universe is Yours!Huge Galaxies with up to 2,000 star systems and tens of thousands of planets, moons and asteroids are yours to explore and exploit, whether pe…
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72%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, grinding68% User Score 1,494 reviewsCritic Score 77%13 reviewsBuild a nation and lead your people throughout history to the pinnacles of human achievement as you explore new lands, develop arts and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head-to-head with your rivals to prove you are the greatest ruler ever known. It's Your World Now. The Deluxe Edition Includes •Ara: History Untold Base Game •Exclusive Leader Collection - featuring five exclusive leaders not …
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72%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, optimization68% User Score 14,765 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsHUMANKIND is Amplitude Studios' magnum opus, a Historical Strategy game where YOU will re-write the entire narrative of humankind – a convergence of culture, history, and values that allows you to create a civilization that is as unique as you are. HOW FAR WILL YOU PUSH HUMANKIND?
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62%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, stability62% User Score 1,132 reviewsDepraved is a wild west city builder.
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73%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding74% User Score 1,870 reviewsCritic Score 73%9 reviewsAs the all-powerful leader of a spacefaring civilization, you must seek out new star systems and discover the exciting potential of the subspace realm. There are thousands of worlds to colonize and dozens of civilizations - both old and new - to encounter.
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57%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, optimization55% User Score 1,930 reviewsCritic Score 68%1 reviewsHammerting is a vertical dwarven mining colony sim with RPG elements. Manage a clan of colorful dwarves, establish an epic mining operation, craft legendary swords and delve deep for greater glory, riches... and danger. With a war raging on the surface, the dwarves pledge to delve deep and, as the master craftspeople they are, produce and supply whatever is needed. From humble beginnings, you st…
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