Games like Rise of Nations
Closest overall match: Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood (★ 4.1). Highest rated: Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos at ★ 4.5. Quickest to finish: Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood at about 1 hours.
We compared Rise of Nations against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 25 came closest.
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58%
1. Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
About 5h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 77%
- Shared genres
- 10
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58%
2. Perimeter
Rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 10
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57%
3. Evil Genius
Rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 49%
- Shared genres
- 10
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57%
4. Heroes of Might and Magic V
Close match on genre and platform.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 66%
- Shared genres
- 10
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57%
5. Cossacks: Art of War
About 5h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2001
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 10
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57%
6. UFO: Aftermath
Rated 0.6 lower; about 5h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2003
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 10
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57%
7. Sid Meier's Civilization IV
About 5h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 94
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
57%
8. The Movies
About 5h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
57%
9. American Conquest
Rated 0.5 lower; about 5h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
57%
10. Cossacks 2: Napoleonic Wars
About 5h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
56%
11. Etherlords
Rated 0.3 lower; about 5h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2001
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
56%
12. Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos
About 6h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★ 4.5
- Metacritic
- 92
- Finish rate
- 84%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
56%
13. Earth 2160
Rated 1.0 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
56%
14. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
About 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2000
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 75%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
56%
15. Jagged Alliance 2 Gold
About 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
56%
16. UFO: Aftershock
Rated 0.7 lower; about 5h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
56%
17. Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
Close match on genre and platform.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
55%
18. Civilization IV: Warlords
Rated 0.5 lower; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
55%
19. Age of Empires
Close match on genre and platform.
- Year
- 1997
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
55%
20. Crusader Kings Complete
Rated 1.3 lower; about 5h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10
-
55%
21. Empire: Total War
Rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
55%
22. Europa Universalis III Complete
Rated 0.8 lower.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
54%
23. Victoria II
Rated 0.3 lower.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
54%
24. Fantasy Wars
Rated 0.8 lower; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
54%
25. Earth 2150 Trilogy
Rated 1.5 lower.
- Year
- 2000
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 29%
- Shared genres
- 10
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What is the best game like Rise of Nations?
On our similarity model, Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood is the closest match to Rise of Nations — about 5h shorter; released within 1 year.
Which game like Rise of Nations is rated highest?
Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.5/5 from 1,422 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Rise of Nations on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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