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AFTERLIFE👻 · 2024 · Windows

Steam: 69 % positive of 266 reviews, as of Oct 28

King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.

24 games that play like King's Orders and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Crusader Kings III, Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition and Knights of Honor II: Sovereign.

Player tags

  • Military
  • Tactical
  • War
  • Strategy
  • Simulation
  • Grand Strategy
  • RTS
  • Political Sim
Map region: Historical Strategy
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These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like King's Orders

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

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  1. Master of Command91 % positive of 3,960
  2. Diplomacy is Not an Option84 % positive of 11,018Shared: Military · Tactical · War
  3. Lords of the Realm II95 % positive of 1,644Shared: Strategy · RTS · Medieval
  4. Europa Universalis IV86 % positive of 92,081Shared: Military · Strategy · Simulation
  5. Kingdoms and Castles92 % positive of 30,397Shared: Strategy · Simulation · RTS
  6. Imperial Glory77 % positive of 1,186Shared: War · Strategy · RTS
  7. HUMANKIND™67 % positive of 22,246Shared: Tactical · War · Strategy
  8. Ancestors Legacy80 % positive of 5,815Shared: Tactical · War · Strategy
  9. Europa Universalis V63 % positive of 25,332
  10. Kingdom Wars 468 % positive of 175Shared: Military · War · Strategy
  11. The Succession of Changing Kings85 % positive of 495Shared: Simulation · Historical · Medieval
  12. Field of Glory: Kingdoms80 % positive of 282Shared: Strategy · Grand Strategy · Wargame

By look

Looks like King's Orders

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  1. Hearts of Iron IV90 % positive of 260,651
  2. Age of History 2: Definitive Edition83 % positive of 3,016
  3. Imperator: Rome65 % positive of 19,504
  4. Generals & Rulers61 % positive of 354
  5. For The Glory: A Europa Universalis Game76 % positive of 150
  6. Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator96 % positive of 9,386
  7. Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith93 % positive of 1,928
  8. Age of Conquest IV81 % positive of 2,827
  9. Battle Brothers86 % positive of 26,382
  10. Europa Universalis III Complete80 % positive of 1,457
  11. Countryball: Europe 189096 % positive of 729
  12. Kingdom, Dungeon, and Hero76 % positive of 171

At a glance

What games like King's Orders have in common

  • The tags they share most often with King's Orders: Strategy (18 of 24), War (13) and Simulation (13).
  • They came out between 2006 and 2026, 4 of them after King's Orders (2024).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Lords of the Realm II (95 % positive of 1,644).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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