Games like Shadows Behind the Throne 2
Looking for games like Shadows Behind the Throne 2? Here are top turn-based strategy recommendations with a horror and fantasy focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Shadows of Forbidden Gods, Millennia or Ruinarch.
1 93%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding93% User Score 1,486 reviewsA strategy game in which you attempt to bring about the apocalypse, by moving covert agents through a complex fantasy world to accomplish a wide range of schemes, plots and rituals. You start the game by bribing guards and infiltrating minor farming communities and slowly build up your forces until you are bringing about ice ages, eradicating entire nations with plague, summoning volcanoes and com…
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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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62%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability62% User Score 1,069 reviewsRuinarch is a simulation sandbox game where you create obstacles and cause conflicts in procedurally generated fantasy worlds. Inspired by story generator games like Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress, weaving tales of both anguish and humor is central to Ruinarch’s gameplay. The game gives you all the infernal tools you'll need to toy with people's lives and relationships.
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83%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, optimization83% User Score 6,230 reviewsAn extraterrestrial probe is detected approaching Earth. Unknown to humanity, an alien force has arrived in the far reaches of the icy Kuiper Belt and has begun mining a dwarf planet to prepare for an invasion. With Earth’s nations unable to unite to address the alien arrival, transnational groups of like-minded political, military, and scientific leaders develop covert channels to coordinate a r…
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74%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystability, optimization78% User Score 2,384 reviewsCritic Score 55%1 reviewsRewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat and grand strategy. Rule, build, and wage war as one of the minor lords of medieval Europe… Medieval Kingdom Wars redefines Medieval Grand Strategy. Build your cities, wage your wars, serve your king, and experience siege combat with a degree of brutality never seen before
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48%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystability, story48% User Score 484 reviewsWorlds of Magic is a 4X turn-based strategy game. Players can explore and conquer an almost limitless number of procedurally generated universes, using military and magical power to overcome their foes. Found cities, raise armies, research and cast spells, hire powerful heroes, and create powerful magical artifacts. All will help you in your bid to become the supreme Sorcerer Lord.
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57%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, stability57% User Score 331 reviewsDwelvers is a real time strategy game where The player takes the role of an evil Dungeon Lord who guide its minions through building their own dungeon, below and above the surface. Manage elaborate production chains, cater to the needs and quirks of each monster and lead them to battles against other monsters and pathetic humans. The most challenging part for the player will be creating an advanc…
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47%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, story43% User Score 1,175 reviewsCritic Score 64%2 reviewsStarDrive sets a new benchmark for the ‘4X Space Strategy’ genre. Starting with a single planet and a small number of space-worthy vessels, you must venture forth into the galaxy, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours. How you play is your decision. Use diplomacy or brute force. Trade, spy and research your way to galactic …
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49%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, music39% User Score 602 reviewsCritic Score 77%3 reviewsAt The Gates is an empire builder. If you're unfamiliar with the genre, a good example is Sid Meier's Civilization. Starting with a small tribe, you must explore the world, exploit its scarce resources, and eliminate or outsmart potential enemies. The decisions you make start off simple but grow in complexity until you command a mighty economic and military powerhouse. Over the course of a single…
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72%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyreplayability, stability70% User Score 351 reviewsCritic Score 75%13 reviewsSorcerer King is a new direction for 4X game design, pitting the player against a single overwhelmingly powerful enemy instead of a set of evenly matched factions racing for abstract victory conditions. Think of the Sorcerer King as the evil mage who won the last traditional 4X game. He has already conquered the world. His enemies (including you) are scattered, their armies broken and cities torn…
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