Games like Farthest Frontier
If Farthest Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are Manor Lords, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic and Cataclismo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its depth surpasses genre predecessors, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Farthest Frontier is a medieval survival city-builder developed and published by Crate Entertainment. Players establish settlements in procedurally generated wilderness, managing complex resource interdependence across agriculture, hunting, fishing and crafting. The game features systems for disease management and raid management alongside a reworked tech tree. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric presentation and visually appealing world design, noting that its depth surpasses genre predecessors. Players appreciate the building mobility system for saving time and resources, while the autosave functionality prevents losing progress during extended sessions. Currently in early access at $34.99, the title holds an 87% positive rating from over 10,000 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Farthest Frontier: Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farthest Frontier.
Top pick for Farthest Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farthest Frontier.
Second-strongest match for Farthest Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Cataclismo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farthest Frontier.
Third-strongest match for Farthest Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farthest Frontier.
Ranked #4 for Farthest Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Settlement Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Farthest Frontier.
Ranked #5 for Farthest Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Of Life and Land
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farthest Frontier.
Ranked #6 for Farthest Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Diplomacy is Not an Option
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farthest Frontier.
Ranked #7 for Farthest Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Farthest Frontier.
Ranked #8 for Farthest Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.
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Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Farthest Frontier.
Reviewers of Farthest Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farthest Frontier.
Reviewers of Farthest Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farthest Frontier.
Reviewers of Farthest Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Stranded: Alien Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farthest Frontier.
Reviewers of Farthest Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Farthest Frontier.
Reviewers of Farthest Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar takes you to the plains and forests of ancient Gaul where Julius Caesar wages a decade long war to subjugate the barbarian hordes. Hegemony Rome will immerse you in the history like no other real time strategy game ever before, forcing you to pay close attention to the changing seasons and rapidly...
Knights and Merchants
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Farthest Frontier.
Reviewers of Farthest Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farthest Frontier.
Reviewers of Farthest Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Majesty 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farthest Frontier.
Reviewers of Farthest Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Farthest Frontier at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~86% under Farthest Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Farthest Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Farthest Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farthest Frontier.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Farthest Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farthest Frontier.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~60% under Farthest Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Farthest Frontier.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Farthest Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Farthest Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farthest Frontier.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farthest Frontier.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farthest Frontier.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
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Frequently asked about Farthest Frontier
- Does Farthest Frontier run on Steam Deck?
- Farthest Frontier is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Farthest Frontier cost?
- Farthest Frontier is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Farthest Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Farthest Frontier are Manor Lords, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Cataclismo.
- Who developed Farthest Frontier?
- Farthest Frontier was developed by Crate Entertainment.
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