Games Like Eastern Era (2026)

Shared: Colony Management, Survival Base-Building

Hundreds of hours in and I still haven't seen everything RimWorld can throw at a colony, that alone tells you whether this one deserves a slot on your drive.

Shared: Faction Diplomacy

Overwhelmingly Positive across 112,000 Steam reviews, yet built to destroy your first five playthroughs. If that ratio makes you curious rather than nervous, Kenshi was made for you.

Shared: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: tier:indie

Four friends, one camera, and a procedurally generated underground full of things that want to kill you on film. Content Warning is the co-op horror bit that somehow became the social satire nobody asked for but everyone needed.

Shared: Steam Workshop Support

Wall-running, sci-fi Specialists, and a Zombies mode that ropes in Ron Perlman and Jeff Goldblum - BO3 is still pulling thousands of daily players nearly a decade later, and that tells you most of what you need to know.